Author Topic: Gift Donation (Read 951 times)

jgbrownie · September 04, 2009, 11:03:14 am

Hi,

I'm trying to figure out how to let someone give a gift donation. I saw in another thread how to do a gift membership but we aren't using the membership component. Our hope is to have a form where a person can fill in their name, address, cc info, and email and also fill in the 'gift' donor's name, address, and email. I see the honoree section but we need to the donor's snail mail address. I've tried to create it in the custom profile but it just changes the address of the person paying for the gift. How do I get it to create the new civicrm user?

Using drupal 6.13 and civicrm 2.2.8.

Thanks!

Donald Lobo · September 04, 2009, 01:38:19 pm

2 options as i see it:

a. Use a set of custom fields to store name / address / email of 'gift donor'. Write an optional cron script that converts these custom fields to a contact. Not a great solution, but u achieve a wee bit of what you want

b. Use the hooks to inject your own fields in the form. Then use the API to create a contact and link it to the contribution (maybe via a contact reference custom field?). This will require some amount of PHP coding, but it cleaner and more elegant

. The contact reference field is new for 3.0

lobo

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