How to easy add Joomla 1.5 donate Paypal
capabilities with Joomla PAYPAL DONATION MODULE
Many joomla CMS installations are for Non-profit organizations or
Non Government organizations. These are organizations which are not
officially making profit and therefore this instituations are
interested into donations to support their activities.
In this occasions adding
Joomla paypal capabilities is very
essential. There are plenty of modules which enables Joomla to
support paypal monetary payments, however many of them are either
paid or requires registration and thus it's quite time consuming to
set up a decent PayPal supporting module for Joomla.
After a bit of investigation thanks God, I've come across a module
that is free of charge, easily downloadable (wihtout registration)
and is also relatively easy to configure, these module is called
PAYPAL DONATION MODULE
I've mirored the module to my server, just in case if the module
disappears in the future.
Here are a very brief explanation on how the module can be
downloaded installed and configured:
First
Download (mod_ojdonation_pp) Paypal Donation Module here
Install it as joomla module via:
Extensions -> Install/Uninstall
menu
Afterwards, go to:
Extensions -> Module Manager
In the list of modules you will notice the
Donate module
which will be disabled. Use the Enable button to enable it.
Next by clicking on the
Donate Module Name, one can
configure the module, where the most essential configuration values
that needs to be filled in are:
1.
Title: - The title of the donation form:
2.
Donation Title: - Title of donation picture to show in
the webpage
3.
Donation Amount: - Default donation amount user will
donate with paypal by clicking on Donate button
4.
Currency - Default currency the donators will use to
donate to configured paypal account
5.
Paypal ID: - The email address of paypal account your
donators will donate to (This was a bit hard to understand since
Paypal ID is not a number ID but the email address configured as an
username in PayPal).
6.
Donation Description: - Description text to appear before
the Donate button
7.
Donation Footer: - Text to appear after the Donate
button
There are two ways one could add the donation module to show the
donation form, on the joomla website:
a. One is to enable the donation button on every joomla webpage (I
don't like this kind of behaviour).
To use this kind of donate button display approach, you will have
to select from the Donation module, conf options:
- Show on FrontPage: and
Show Title:
Also make sure the
Enabled: option is set to
Yes
b. Second approach is to set the PayPal Donation form only to
appear on a single menu, to do so:
While in Paypal Donation Module configuration in
Menu
Assignment section, select:
Select Menu Item(s) from the List
instead of the default
All value set for Menus.
The last setting to be choosen is the paypal donation form page
location (where exactly on the selected pages the form will
appear).
The form location is set from the
Position: dropdown menu,
the option which I found to be the best one for me was the
bottom option. However just play with the
Position
setting and choose the one that will be best for you.
Then scroll on in the
Menu Selection: and choose only the
menus where you want a paypal donation form to appear.
Finally to save all the recent made settings, click on Apply and
refreshing in a new page should
show you paypal's money donation
form in joomla
If all is configured fine with
Joomla's - Paypal Donation
Module you should get on your webpage: