Donation product type

Hey Zenners,

As part of my work with YES! Magazine, I created a donation product type. Check it out here:

http://www.yesmagazine.org/store/index.php?main_page=document_product_info&cPath=5&products_id=12

It lets customers select from a number of pre-defined amounts ($25, $50), enter their own amount, and do recurring monthly donations.

The way it works is that it's a product with a value of $1 and the quantity becomes the value of the donation.

I'm interested in contributing my work back to the open source community. However I don't have a lot of spare time and a bad case of tendonitis prevents me from doing lots of extra work. In addition, to create this product type I had to do a bunch of modifications to a bunch of template pages, and modify some core files. These changes were associated with changing the display of the quantity. So if somebody donated $50, it should show

Donation $50

instead of

50 x $1 Donation $50

I can't think of how to easily wrap up my changes. So if somebody with more ZenCart experience wants to talk, that'd be awesome.

Kevin

Would you be willing to help me do this with a site I'm working on? It's for a camp for disabled children, and they would like to take donations and I thought that bouncing it through their camp store would be the best way to do it.

Did you get this to work? I am very interested please.

Thank you in advance.

Tom

Yep, check out the link I posted above. For a basic donation product, you can simply cannibalize the code on the product page.

It's simply a product with a price of $1. The quantity determines the total donation. The meat of it is the Javascript on the product page that updates cartQuantity when the user clicks on a radio box or enters a value. You'll probably want to get rid of the code that handles our "Dedicated Friends"; it sets an attribute that lets me know this is a recurring monthly donation.

The only other part is finding every page where it displays
50 x Donation ($1)
and updating it to display

• Donation $50

Of course that's optional. I know one guy who didn't bother. People will get the idea either way.

Thanks my friend! Very much appreciated! :clap:

audleman,

I think that ALOT of nonprofit people REALLY would be interested in this. I have wanted this for a couple of years, and have never had the time or knowledge to do it.

What you have could serve many many nonprofits.

I encourage you to simply document in the forum what specific mods you made to the various files involved.

Did you use attributes on one product? Looks like!

How to you get the "other" line item to have a "quantity box"? and not the rest?

Please PLEASE do what you can to document this more fully. I would be very willing to write it up formally if you were to just throw some rough notes my way.

Will

I also represent a non-profit, and would love assistance with implementing this. Has the documentation been created yet?

Thanks.

Friends,

There appears to be some interest from a number of groups for my donation module. I think I will look at what it will take to wrap up my work into an open source package. Please hold :) I'll get back to this thread in a couple of days...

Kevin

I am looking for exactly this type of module. For now I am going to modify the template files but I would love to see this available.

I'd like to revive this thread. I've seen many people in search for this and audleman hit it Right On. I think we would ALL like to know how he did it. I would pay for an add-on such as this. I can not find one for free or to purchase. How is this done?

HA! I got it!. I used a product type, for me I used Document. Then on Line 100 of tpl_document_product_info_display.php delete PRODUCTS_ORDER_QTY_TEXT and type whatever you want it to say there. Use single quotes if you want to use spaces or dollar signs!

Nate, it sounds like you're on the right track.

Originally I thought I would complete this as its own module, but I've currently got way more work than I could handle. If there is somebody interested in funding the work then let's talk.

Kevin

Well, I have this working just fine for me now.

But my question is, how do you hide the quantity display in the shopping cart for the "donation" product type only?

If you go to Audelman's website at http://store.yesmagazine.org/donate?cPath=5 , enter a donation amount, and go to his shopping cart, you'll see that he is able to hide the quantity displayed for the donation item. So, if you donate $50, the dollar total displays fine but it doesn't display 50 "units" under quantity.

That's what I want my cart to do as well. Additionally, if you add one of his "standard" product types, the quantities show up just as they should.

I tried setting "show quantity in shopping cart" under my product type (Document Product Type) to zero, but no luck.

I'm guessing I need to modify either my shopping cart template or product type template, but I would appreciate any help with the PHP code.

owen26:

Well, I have this working just fine for me now.

But my question is, how do you hide the quantity display in the shopping cart for the "donation" product type only?

I overwrote the shopping cart template directly. You'll have to do the same for the Order Confirmation page and, to be thorough, the customer email.

The first two are pretty easy to override, the email is some of the craziest spaghetti logic code you'll ever deal with.

Good luck,
Audleman

Audleman: Would you be willing to share your tpl_shopping_cart_default.php code with us? I'm thinking your modification must lie somewhere inside the "loop through all products" section of that page. Did you just delete a little snippet of the default code, or did you have to add some new logic of your own? Thanks.