Whats the best way to do this?

[GCpd]

Hi all,

I posted this in the wrong place, and was advised to stick it up here, so here i go...

I want to add a donation page to my site, but it needs to show the average donation of all donations. I just can't figure out a good way of doing it. I would like to use paypal, but I don't think it would be possable to link a script to what people are paying via paypal. Any Ideas?

Cheers,

GC

[rfresh]

You would use a server-side scripting language such as PHP and store every donation in a database (MySQL) so you would know the totals/averages. Fairly easy to do if you know PHP?

RalphF
GoldRushWebHosting.com

[GCpd]

is there any way of automatically capturing he values as people make donations though?

[rfresh]

I've done my share of PayPal interface programming (in PHP) and while I don't recall specifically if it will do what you are asking, I do know PP has a lot of online help docs explaining how their system works (for the developer). Try looking thru those docs and see what you can find.

They may even have a developers forum now so you could post there too.

Otherwise, you'll have to end up with a programming solution, but it's not a complex task and even if you have to hire it out, it shouldn't cost that much.

RalphF
GoldRushWebHosting.com

[masonbarge]

I've never done anything like this, so caveat libror . . .

My thought would be to have a regular form text input for the donation amount. Handle it on a page that has "method of payment" choices that link to https sites, and put a query at the top of the page that sends the amount (and possibly other info) to a database.

This would give you an unofficial shadow database, but the average should be pretty close, even given the occasional mistake.

It would be nice if you could manage to put the amount through to PayPal or whatever, but I don't know how to do it.