[thelist] PayPal or other gateway with custom fields?
Mark Groen
evolt at markgroen.com
Mon Aug 4 20:00:23 CDT 2008
On Monday 04 August 2008 15:20:12 Bill Moseley wrote:
> A friend has a PayPal standard account and is trying to accept
> political donations for a city measure. Law requires gathering a few
> custom fields like employer, occupation, etc., if over some amount.
>
> I can't see that it's possible with PayPal to add custom fields other
> than a simple note[1]. And nothing with logic to change the
> requirements based on the amount.
>
> Is anyone aware of how to do that with Paypal or another similar
> service. This person needs to do off-site donations since they do
> not have the SSL cert or programming skill to do it in-house.
One way is using javascript to concatenate the extra fields into the one that
PP gives you:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/excerpt/paypalhacks_chap1/
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cheers,
Mark
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