Silent Auction donation page - suggestions needed

Nicole S:

The first thing that comes to mind is a page set up to take pledges (of donations) linked to the event. If they put the value in the amount field and description in the comments, when you pull it over you could make whatever adjustments that you need to keep it in line with your P&P.  When you receive the item you can enter it as a Pay-GIK (GIK applied to the pledge).


You'd have to manually change some info on the gift, but it might work.

Chris McGrane:

Assuming that you have a non-NetCommunity site as well, you could easily set up a form to collect this information. You could then embed the form within your NetCommunity page. I'm sure a developer at your organization could build this in < 30 minutes.

Here's an example (requires jQuery & PHP):


You would created an HTML form on a page on your main website.

You would then create an AJAX request in jQuery to serialize / submit the form data to a PHP file.

The PHP script will save the submitted data to a text file, appending each entry to a new line.

Then, make an iframe in NetCommunity to load the form page on your site.

jQuery:

$('#submit').on('click',function(){

$.ajax({

      method: "POST",

      url: "data.php",

      data: $('form#myForm').serialize()

    });

});

data.php:

<?php

   $name = $_POST["name"];

   $location = $_POST["item"];

   $new_line = $name . "," . $location . "\\n";

   $file = 'entries.txt';

   $current = file_get_contents($file);

   $current .= $new_line;

   file_put_contents($file, $current);

?>

 

Note: This may be difficult for someone with no JS/PHP experience. Otherwise, it should be no problem.