[thelist] contribution database

F Dariano fdariano at woh.rr.com
Wed Jan 12 13:15:41 CST 2011


On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 1:12 PM, F Dariano <fdariano at woh.rr.com> wrote:

> For the annual NAMI Walk fundraiser, the the Executive Director would like 
>  > a donation page added which would keep track of which walker or team 
> gets
> credit for the donation & have an entry for the Team name or Walker name.

> I thought a database would have to be created & looked into this but it
> seems beyond what I understand.

> Would another format work for this?

On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 at 2:25 pm. Hassan Schroeder wrote:

> Not clear what you mean by "another format".

> If you want the site to accept, process, and display information about
> donations, yeah, you typically want a DB to store the data processed
> by your application. (The data has to be stored somewhere; writing it
> to the file system directly is clunky and slow.)

On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 at 2:10 pm. Frank Dariano wrote:

By another format, I meant something other than a database. Thanks for your 
answer; I'll either have to learn how to do the database or turn it over to 
someone else.

I also heard from another subscriber to use a tool that will do this & to 
check out http://civicrm.org/. Checked it out but I think it's somewhat more 
than what's needed for the fund raiser. Thanks for your answer though.

Frank D 



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