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Thread began 3/14/2012 10:27 am by edrosenthal350859 | Last modified 3/16/2012 6:06 am by edrosenthal350859 | 3170 views | 4 replies |

edrosenthal350859

paypal donation button

i am having a heck of a time trying to find a way to accomplish these things with paypal donation button:
1 - create the button such as when it goes to paypal i do not see "order summary" such as you would if you were buying something with a buy now button. This being a donation to a fund or a cause should not have that there.
2 - make sure the amount is filled in - from a drop down list of values

i used the donate button in the e-commerce paypal kit and the "order summary" appeared.
I note that in another post similar to mind it was said to change the hidden value of amount to text input, but i saw no generation of amount there after the button was first created.
thanks in advance as always,
ed

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

please post a link where i can see the problem

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edrosenthal350859

link for test

testpage.html
and one that fills in the amount but has the "order summary"
paypalbutton.html

i have yet to find a good tutorial that talks about just this. Many forums such as x.com have a lot of information that is incomplete or links have gone bad, that might have the answers i was looking for... thanks for your reply!

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

the way the button is treated by the paypal system is set by the cmd hidden element:

<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick" />




for a donation button, the cmd hidden element should have the value set to "_donations":

<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_donations" />




the price passed to paypal should be in a form element named amount. using a select list, and not offering an empty value will ensure that an amount is entered:

<select name="amount">
<option value="100">100</option>
<option value="25">25</option>
<option value=".01">.01</option>
</select>




for more details see the paypal standard variable reference doc:
e_howto_html_Appx_websitestandard_htmlvariables

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edrosenthal350859

Thanks!

Yes! That was it perfectly. Thanks so much!!

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