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I want to add a PayPal Donation button to a single page on my site.

When I copy the code directly from my PayPal account, the button works fine through an html page linked to my Joomla site through the Wrapper. But if I place that code into a Joomla content page, the code disappears.

I'd rather not use the Wrapper for my PayPal donation page, so I tried the Mambo PayPal module from bigApe and that works fine except for one line on my PayPal form that wants to calculate shipping in British Pounds (I'm a local US website).

If someone knows how to hack the bigApe module for PayPal shipping over to US dollars, that would fix my problem, or point me to another (free) Joomla solution that's working for them, I'd appreciate it.


Thanks,
Steve

I found a solution in the General Questions area of the forum.

To create a Make a Donation button by copying the code generated by your PayPal account, one needs to turn off the WYSIWIG editor in Joomla. Then pasting your PayPal code into a content page creates the button, just like it does in a basic html doc. By default, the WYSIWIG editor is on, and won't let you create your button. Turning it off temporarily to create the button was the key.

Thanks for the solution- ZorkHH

zorkhh wrote:Hi,

you are obviously using a WYSIWYG-Editor in Mambo!

Please go to "Global Settings" and set the Dropdown "WYSIWYG-Editor" to "No WYSIWYG-Editor", save and go back to your module. Now you should have a plain teaxtbox. Insert the code again and save. Now it should work. (You can now enable your WYSIWYG-Editor again).

*snip*

hth

ZorkHH

You can use the Ez_donate button module.  You can also change your settings in paypal so that you can accept any currency.  Not sure if you are against doing that but that is just an option.

Eternity wrote:You can use the Ez_donate button module.  You can also change your settings in paypal so that you can accept any currency.  Not sure if you are against doing that but that is just an option.

I'm not familiar with Ez_donate mod. Could you point me to this?

Thanks,
Steve

cmyksteve wrote:
I'm not familiar with Ez_donate mod. Could you point me to this?

Thanks,
Steve

I found it here

http://www.justjoomla.com/index.php?opt ... &Itemid=34

Hope it helps I found it was really easy to use and configure. 

Thanks so much Eternity!

I have been searching for one of these forever!!!

Hi All,

I'm a little late into this thread - but I know lots of folks are having this problem of TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor stripping forms info.  I've found you can use the TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor AND still paste in html forms info directly from paypal, etc.  The key is that you must turn off "Code Cleanup" in the TinyMCE WYSIWYG Editor mambot. 

Seems like this is a bug that really should be addressed.  Hopefully will be in future versions of Joomla and/or TinyMCE.

Also, this above solution solves a related problem of anchors getting messed up when going back and forth into the html mode.

Hope this helps...

Bob

If a lot of people are interested, I'll develop my donation component found at http://tnjmm.ion.ph . I'm yet to find a really customizable donation module/component that is truly flexible.

I agree raeldc!

I would be interested in your component. The other mods/components (whatever) are all good but I found problems with all of them in trying to set up a donate button at my non-profit site.

Mostly I cant set them to Aussie dollars except ezdonate - but ezydonate throws my sidebar out of whack if I add text in the layout no matter how much fiddling I did with the code. (and no matter which browser i viewed it in)  It also tries to add its own standard text if I dont fill in the into and ending text fields, which is annoying. Its a shame coz I liked the simplicity of ezdonate

I only need something very simple that lets me put in a brief intro and allows Australian dollars for payment. Although its an aussie site it does get some international visitors so it would be good if they had the option to donate in their own currency too - but that is less important than having aussies able to donate in australian currency.

Hi everyone,

If you're looking for a donation component for Joomla, I suggest you keep an eye on what's been going on with CiviCRM. Not only is it an amazing CRM, they're adding things like CiviDonate, CiviMember, and CiviMail. It will not only help with your donation needs, it will allow you to better track donors and make your life easier. It's an amazing Joomla component that just keeps getting better.

Visit www.openngo.org to check it out and see if it'll work for you.

cheers,
Devin

cmyksteve wrote:I want to add a PayPal Donation button to a single page on my site.

When I copy the code directly from my PayPal account, the button works fine through an html page linked to my Joomla site through the Wrapper. But if I place that code into a Joomla content page, the code disappears.

I'd rather not use the Wrapper for my PayPal donation page, so I tried the Mambo PayPal module from bigApe and that works fine except for one line on my PayPal form that wants to calculate shipping in British Pounds (I'm a local US website).

If someone knows how to hack the bigApe module for PayPal shipping over to US dollars, that would fix my problem, or point me to another (free) Joomla solution that's working for them, I'd appreciate it.


Thanks,
Steve

Steve,

You can use the module from SocietyWare related to donations. Easy to set-up...good luck.
http://societyware.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=2

Antonio