Shopping cart function for donations

jojo86

I would like to create a shopping cart function for a charity website but using donations and not actual products.

Basically, I would like the ability to select from different drop downs what type of donation I would like to make and what amount of money I wish to donate (e.g. text box to denote the price so a user can add any amount, then a drop down to explain which country to have this go to and to what the money will be spent on).

If you take a look at this site, you can see an example - https://donate3.uwt.org/front/donate_now.asp?anon=1

When the user has added all they want to donate, they go to PayPal to pay and a record needs to be stored to say whether the user actually paid or not (presumably a script run when the user comes back from PayPal to mark the cart transaction as complete). I am going to be setting up an admin section so that I can see what amount each user has donated and to where the money needs to go to. Thus the database needs to store each transaction with all information entered into the cart.

I know I want to use sessions but I have no idea where to start!!!

Hopefully someone can help...

dagon

there are lots of donation scripts around, unless you really want to make your own.

jojo86

Are you able to send me through some links to good websites? I have been sitting on Google for the past two days trying to search for a shopping cart function (FREE) that doesn't have to deal with prices or quantities or real products... I just want to be able to add a line to a shopping cart saying the user wants to 'donate X to Y for Z purpose'. I am not an expert with PHP and some of the scripts I have found are not explained in newbie terms so I am not having much luck!

dagon

are you saying you already have a shopping cart? you can just google "donations scripts"

jojo86

I don't have any shopping cart script - I can't fnd anything simple enough for me to fully understand. I don't want to create anything I wont be able to modify or fix at a later stage.

dagon

Goggole

jojo86

I have already got a paypal button for donations and I have built a donation form before so I'm ok with that bit - its the cart I need help with!

I need a shopping cart that doesn't depend on getting a price from a database but do need the database for admin purposes. Iv not found anything simple enough for me to use and everything I have found doesn't go into how the code works, just what code to use and I need a good tutorial that can help me through it step by step.

I do appreciate any helpful coding you could pass on to me.