[drupal-support] re-inventing the wheel

[Chris Johnson]

Chris Johnson wrote:
> I've seen a number of Drupal sites where one can click on a link to 
> donate (e.g. political campaign web sites).  The user is then presented 
> a form to fill in some required information and then given a button to 
> go to Paypal to finish the transaction and donation with a credit card.
> 
> Building the page to go to Paypal is the easy part.  But what techniques 
> are people using to capture data and then forward the user to the next 
> page?  I'd rather not re-invent the wheel, and I'd also like to avoid 
> having to implement a module to do this.  Surely there is an easier way.


I found a fairly simple solution.  The webform module does the trick for the 
front end, and a node with the Paypal code in it does the rest.