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I have a client that has some specific ideas about how they want their contribution page to look and function.
The CiviCRM contribution page isn't what they are looking for.

How hard, or is it possible, to just build a "custom" page that is just straight php but uses some civi crm api that'll handle the transaction and dumping the data onto user records.

I'm not sure if Civi really even has an API or if it's exposes what i'd need to do that.

I'm not looking to get into the mess of transacting the credit card stuff myself or writing the data to SQL.

any suggestions would be greatly appreciate.

check:

api/v2/Contribution.php

function civicrm_contribute_transact

lobo

I'm sorry to have to ask, but where is that stuff located?

Is that on the civicrm.org site, on an installed site (for example, my client's site), or in documentation somewhere?

Have a good read of the book http://en.flossmanuals.net/civicrm - especially the Contribution chapter - it should get you where you need to go.

There is also a page on the wiki about how to go about customising php, namely putting copy in your own custom php and custom template directories

Thanks peterd.  I'll hit that now. Exactly what I've been trying to find.