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I'm making a snazzy looking donate page. I'm making it as a normal drupal page with a form on it that posts to /civicrm/contribute/transact, with all the appropriate fields on it. I'm doing it this way rather than editing the contribution page template for a couple of reasons. In this form the layout of the billing information, credit card information, and custom profile fields are all jumbled up (and the exact layout is quite important), and I'm also make a "Pay with PayPal" checkbox that, when checked, dynamically changed values so that it will submit to a PayPal contribution page instead of an Authorize.net one, from the same form.

The snag I'm hitting is with the qfKey. What is it? I gather that it's probably some sort of unique hash that contains within it the current session and the id of the contribution page. How would I go about generating new qfKeys for different contribution pages in a drupal module? I could make my drupal page generate these when loading this drupal donate page.

Is there anything else I'm missing that might cause problems or make this harder to implement than I realize? Thanks!

Yeah, the main reason I wanted a form that submitted to multiple contribution pages was so I could make a single page handle different payment processors. That's not possible within CiviCRM at the moment, but it is possible with javascript. You can just check the "pay with paypal" checkbox all the credit card fields get hidden and the qfKey gets dynamically updated.

I built the interface for this, however then I realized that it's a much bigger process to choose which contribution form gets submitted than just changing the value of a contribution_form_id hidden field. So I gave up and decided to go ahead and override templates, and have our credit card and paypal payment contribution pages be on separate pages.