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I'm working on a joomla site for a charity event. The event has 5 causes to donate for each with its own page. I have created paypal donation buttons for each of the five causes using this site: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donate-intro-outside. That all works fine but I need to accomplish two more things. 1) How do I display a summary of the donations for each cause on its respective page and 2) How do I display a total donations received across all 5 causes on the home page?

I am currently going into the paypal account and updating these values manually every night. I know there has to be a better way. I think I have to do something with IPN but I can't find any good documentation. I'm not a php programmer so I need some hand holding but I can get through it with some help.

I have searched high and low for a Joomla extension to do this but I just can't seem to find anything that fits my situation. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

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I don't think you'll be able to pull this off without some PHP programming and a good integration with Joomla.

As a general overview you will have to:

  • activate and configure IPN (Instant Payment Notifications) in PayPal
  • for your buttons configure the notify_url (the URL where PayPal should send the IPN)
  • on the Joomla site you will have to process those notifications and save into a database the transaction information that you get
  • finally - on each of your pages you will have to do a database look up and compute the totals that you require.

I have used Jumi (Joomla extension) to implement something similar to what you need, but it does require a lot of PHP programming to do it like this.

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  • Thanks for your comments. That's what I figured I needed to do, I just need to figure out how.
    – user3242794
    Commented Jan 29, 2014 at 3:16
  • I think you will need a PHP/Joomla programmer to help you. This is not very advanced, but it's not beginner either.
    – Ilie Pandia
    Commented Jan 29, 2014 at 4:13

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