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Hi,

I am creating a website for a client of mine who accepts Sponsorship applications which I have set up and working properly, however when they submit the app they are taken to a Thank You and Payment page where they can select method of payment which I cannot get working. What I have on this page is a table of 2 rows/2columns;

First column is for Check or Money Order which we have 2 Form fields DIgital SIgnature and Date <form></form> tags excluded from the code, but a Submit button is in place.

Second column we have the Paypal info which my client created a dropdown list for 3 payment levels in PayPals site and sent me the code from PayPal.

The situation is when I do the digital signature and date and click on the submit button for the Check or Money Order Option I get this message on the site: "You are not allowed to access this URL " IF I click on the PayPal Buy Now button I get same thing on my site. SO I am guessing it is the <form></form> tags from PayPal's code.

I have searched many threads here related and not seeing much on my situation, so I ask if someone could tell me a workaround with PayPals coding, please. My completion date on this site is nearing and this is probably the only thing slowing me down.

I would post the link here for both forms, bowever per my Clients request he doesn't want his site info revealed as of yet despite the nature of this issue.

Thank you very much in advance for any and all help on this issue.

Ron S.

Hi RonS,

There are several threads here on this. You can contact PayPal using Curl in the OnSubmit boxes but usually it's simpler to create a PayPal URL and let ChronoForms redirect to once the other processing is complete. There's one example here but you'll find several others in the forums here.

Bob

Hi Bob,

Thank you for your prompt reply. As per my last thread I have done alot of searching and reading. Most of what I found code wise and is included in the link you provided me was in the form of this:

<?php
/**
* Build PayPal URL & redirect
*/

// Variables are set in the $form_config array
$url  = $form_config['https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr'];
$url .= "&business=".$form_config['donations@mysite.com'];
$url .= "&item_name=100links_donation";
$url .= "&item_number=1001";
$url .= "¤cy_code=USD";
$url .= "&amount=100.00";
$url .= "&custom=$userid";
$url .= "&return=".$form_config['http://www.mysite.com/thank-you.html'];
//$url .= "&return=".urlencode($form_config['paypal_return']);
// $url .= "&cancel_return=".$form_config['paypal_cancel_return'];
$url .= "&no_note=1";
$url .= "&no_shipping=1";
}
if ( $debug ) {
    echo "url: ";print_r($url);echo "<br />";
    echo "<br /><a href='$url'>Click to continue</a><br />";
} else {
    $rows[0]->redirecturl = $url;
}
?>

Unfortunately they are not using encrypted code from PayPal and my client is. I tried to resolve with my client not to encrypt but he tends to see things differently. Furthermore I did not really see anyone using the dropdown features available at PayPal. He really doesn't want to have a Box to enter the amount and he really doesn't want to have multiple Buy Now links on the page. So again I have to go with his wishes. If it where as simple as some of these other posts that I have read, I would be good to go, but unfortunately my client is pretty much the type of person when he says he wants it done this way thats the only way he wants it and there is no discussing it so to speak, lol.

This is the reasoning of my post. I do apologize that I did not make mention of the encryption from PayPal as I have been working on 2 clients sites at the same time and well there jsut isn't enough time in the day, lol.

Again thank you for your prompt reply.

Ron S.

Hi Ron,

Sorry but I'm not sure I can understand if this solution will do what you need or not ? if not then how do you want the payment process to flow exactly ?

Cheers
Max

Hi Max,

Ok here is what is on the page, see attached (yeah I know the PayPal stuff is further down, LOL). There is 2 choices:

1) Send Payment via Check or Money Order which in turn they do a Digital Signature stating thats there method of Payment. Once they fill in those 2 fields then click submit. The info in those 2 fields are stored in the database and the info is emailed like the Sponsorhip application does.

2) Select which package they want in the drop down and click on the (Buy Now) button and proceed to PayPal. and none of the other info is saved.

Thanks Max for your reply and help. If this can't be done I will work up another way I guess.

Hi Ron,

then where is the problem ? if you don't need the data saved for paypal then keep the paypal code out of the form code and just put them both at the same page and you are fine!

Regards
Max

Hi MAx,

Ok now I am really lost, sorry it has been a rough rough week with very little sleep, so forgive me. How can I leave the PayPal Code out of the Form code and keep both setups on the same page.

I have 2 different sets of form code for this Thank you Page.

1) for the SIgnature and Date
2) For PayPal

Hi RonS,

Encryption aside, both your other concerns about building a PayPal URL are easily dealt with using an form exactly like yours. You will though need extra code to deal with the encryption.

I think Max is suggesting that you use the create the page as a static Joomla page then insert a ChronoForms Form into the left part using the ChronoForms Mambot/PlugIn. The PayPal Thanks page is presumably accessed through a Return URL so this should work OK.

[attachment=0]mypage.jpg[/attachment]

The alternative would be to use a single form with two submit buttons (one disguided as the PayPal button) and to use PHP in the OnSubmit code boxes to follow two different processing routes.

Bob

Hi Bob,

Thanks for your reply. Well I will give both suggestions a try, I am not really to familiar with the ChronoForms Mambot/PlugIn and all the other stuff mentioned, but I will surely give it a try.

To be honest I have never really dived into all the really technical avenues of Joomla/Mambot and Chronoforms, so I am pretty much learning as I go.

Again thanks for everyone's help and keep your fingers crossed.

Hi RonS,

The ChronoForms Mambot/Plugin just lets you embed a ChronoForms form inside another page. You install and publish the Mambot, then can use {chronocontact}form_name{/chronocontact} to embed the form in any other page that has Mambots enabled (i.e. all content pages and some others). There are some drawbacks as serverside validation errors don't easily return to the same page IIRC.

Bob

Hi Bob,

Ok gotcha. Thank you very much for your help. Working on it now.

Ron S.

Hi Bob,

WORKED great thanks for all your help as well as Max's help.

I do have one small issue. IF you notice #1 in image the placement of your advertising. (We don't mind it being on the page at al) but how can we move that done to #2 in the image?

Thanks again for all the help and patience, very much appreciated.

Ron S.

Hi RonS,

I'm not sure why it isn't under the form - must be a formatting glitch. Maybe Max will have a suggestion.

Bob

Hi RonS,

I think this is a CSS problem because of using DIVs or wrong table code ?

Cheers
Max

Hi Max,

Thanks for your reply. I did look into the DIV's and stuff last night some and it all looked pretty good but I will go back in and have a look around some more. I was kinda rushed when looking so I will go alittle slower this time by.

Again thanks for your reply and will let you know what I found.

Ron S.

Hi Ron,

No problems, the link is in its own DIV so I think this is somehow conflicting with your CSS, DIVs CSS is tricky (at least for me) so take another look😉

Regards
Max