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wd40

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Paypal IPN and Donate button
October 06, 2009, 05:10:31 pm
I've read the installation instruction at
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/PayPal+Website+Payments+Standard+and+Recurring+Contributions
Here is a question: wouldn't activating IPN and giving it the address of the main cite create a conflict between let's say CiviEvent and  "Donate" button that we already have on basically every page? (using Paypal Standard)
And somewhat related question:
Is it possible to automatically capture into CiviCRM  info of the people who use the Donate button?

Thanks.

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Re: Paypal IPN and Donate button
October 06, 2009, 06:13:35 pm

We send specific urls for every civievent page and civicontribute page and override the info you set on the IPN page. We ask people to set it on paypal config time since i think its a required field with paypal.

I assume the Donate button is just the paypal Donate button. You can use the script bin/ContributionProcessor.php to download info from your paypal account for folks who have donated directly to the org

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Re: Paypal IPN and Donate button
October 07, 2009, 11:23:35 am
So, the standard PayPal "Donate" button does not trigger IPN, correct? There is an option though, when one creates the button to give it a notify_url for an IPN.
Is it possible with CiviCRM out-of the box, or would it require additional coding?

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Re: Paypal IPN and Donate button
October 07, 2009, 12:09:47 pm

yes.

No, u will need to do additional coding to make this happen. Might be a good community contribution. You can check ContributionProcessor.php for some code to do the needful

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