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Is there a way to only allow access to site if user donated to you?


Glenskie

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The suggestion that @ginerjm has is a much better solution then what I about to suggest t a VERY simple method would be this.  If you plan to use paypal to collect the donation then...

 

Paypal has a listener that it calls after any payment (or donation) to your website is made.  Check out

 

https://developer.paypal.com/docs/classic/ipn/ht_ipn/

 

And to this php file a little code that will add the the donors email address to a dataase.  Now you have a database of all your donors and you can ask them to enter their email address to login (no password needed)

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Not to be pedantic, but the point of a donation is that it's not compulsory. If you require someone to give you money in exchange for something (be it product, service, access or anything else) then it's no longer a donation, but a fee.

 

I only mention this because that's how the tax people are going to look at it, and they will be expecting a cut, or else proof of exemption.

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Not to be pedantic, but the point of a donation is that it's not compulsory. If you require someone to give you money in exchange for something (be it product, service, access or anything else) then it's no longer a donation, but a fee.

 

I only mention this because that's how the tax people are going to look at it, and they will be expecting a cut, or else proof of exemption.

 

I would agree to with this, though maybe it's simply allowing donating users/members to see a "Thank you for donating." or "Your donation history." type of page.

 

The link posted by DenRomano should make for a good starting point.

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