I'm working with a group that is setting up an endowed scholarship and they are having a bit of trouble streamlining their donation process.

The basic process right now is that a potential donor is directed to the scholarship homepage to get information and then they are linked to the donation form for NC Community Foundation (third party org handling all of the money).

The problem arises that there is too much room for error in filling out the donation form leading to potential donors donating to the wrong fund or getting discouraged and not donating at all. Frankly, it is a woefully simple form to fill out but most of the donors are older and lack in tech savvy.

What I am wondering is: Is it possible to have the appropriate fields be automatically filled in on the donation form so that donors only have to fill in their donation amount and payment details? If it is possible, I'm interested in how much it would cost for you to write the code.

10/9/2011 1:33:37 PM

php could do this.

put a flag ../dontation.php?donor=typical

then in the code write a few ifs in front of the the fields, if donor=typical, then text field = this, else, nothing.

You could probably write a bunch more ifs for different types of donors to pre-fill out the page depending on how you are targeting. You could probably do this more efficiently with a array of some sort.

10/9/2011 2:50:16 PM

no dude, use django

10/9/2011 6:32:18 PM