Donation Centre Help

Please please please I really hope someone can help me as I’m trying to setup a donation centre as directed by this tutorial: http://tutorialzine.com/2010/05/donation-center-php-mysql-paypal-api/

The problem with this tutorial is that it is very vague. I have put in all the xhtml and added the two databases. I have placed all the .php files side by side in this directory: http://sakeenaheducationcentre.com/wp-content/themes/StyleShop

I have placed this in the head: <?php

require “http://sakeenaheducationcentre.com/wp-content/themes/StyleShop/config.php”;
require “http://sakeenaheducationcentre.com/wp-content/themes/StyleShop”;

// Determining the URL of the page:
$url = ‘http://’.$_SERVER[‘SERVER_NAME’].dirname($_SERVER[“REQUEST_URI”]);

// Fetching the number and the sum of the donations:
list($number,$sum) = mysql_fetch_array(mysql_query(“SELECT COUNT(*),SUM(amount) FROM dc_donations”));

// Calculating how many percent of the goal were met:
$percent = round(min(100*($sum/$goal),100));

// Building a URL with Google’s Chart API:
$chartURL = ‘http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chf=bg,s,f9faf7&cht=p&chd=t:’.$percent.’,-’.(100-$percent).’&chs=200x200&chco=639600&chp=1.57’;

?>


I Just don’t know what to do to get it to work - It’s corrently in demo mode but I can’t seem to even donate in demo mode or get the green chart up. I’m also not sure what info to add where for real donations.

I’m not sure about the paypal_class and assigning it PayPal’s URLor about calling the $p->validate_ipn()

I’d really really appreciate a nudge in the right direction, I’ve been working on it for such a long time, although I’ve figured quite a lot out and progressed with some thinking I’m not at a stand still.
I really hope you can help
Many Thanks

i forgot to say the page is here: http://sakeenaheducationcentre.com/our-mission

ok - so I know I was probably asking for too much on this but it was actually a simple fix and I’ve been obsessionally playing round with it for days and finally got it. I couldn’t for the life of me get the demo to work so I finally switched the true command to false which allowed it to work in real mode and with that on everything worked fine. I also got rid of all the php code ( even with the php plug in for wordpress ) and used the source code for the tutorial ( and not the code they gave ). With the correct urls’s in the place it all works fine and I love the Donation Centre! So the fix was really running it from the php file and not the wordpress html editor ( pages ) I’ve just added a link to it from the Our Mission page.

Works a treat and already taking in donations

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