How to Integrate PayPal Donate Button into ASP.NET Page

Date: 21 Jan 2010 Comments: 6 so far

I’ve recently decided to add PayPal Donate Button in the current site. The generated code for the donate button was:

<form action=”https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr” method=”post”>
<input type=”hidden” name=”cmd” value=”_s-xclick” />
<input type=”hidden” name=”hosted_button_id” value=”11271506″ />
<input type=”image” src=”https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donateCC_LG.gif” border=”0″ name=”submit” alt=”PayPal – The safer, easier way to pay online!” />
<img alt=”" border=”0″ src=”https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif” width=”1″ height=”1″ />
</form>

Adding the donate button code in the blog was easy (it’s wordpress), but in the entire part of the site it was a problem, because it’s written in asp.net.

I’ve search for many solutions but most of them are too complicated, ex. why should I add 3rd party control for a simple paypal donate button!?

The form above can be re-written also in HTML:

<a id=”paypalDonate” target=”_blank” href=”https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=11271506″>
<img border=”0″ id=”payPalImage” src=”https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donateCC_LG.gif” alt=”Donate to DevtheWeb.NET” />
</a>

If you want to use to code above, all you need to do is to replace hosted_button_id’s value with your value, generated for your form by PayPal and that’s really all :)

 
Is it awful to have only one server-side Form tag in asp.net page?
 
 
 

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  1. 6 Comments to “How to Integrate PayPal Donate Button into ASP.NET Page”

    1. gulam says:
      February 21, 2010 at 10:12 am

      nice

      Reply
    2. Craig says:
      May 20, 2010 at 4:47 am

      Worked great, thanks!

      Reply
    3. Richard says:
      August 11, 2010 at 9:24 pm

      Works like a charm. Thank you!!

      Reply
    4. Igor says:
      June 22, 2011 at 3:54 pm

      Great Post! Thx a lot.

      Reply
    5. ashish says:
      October 19, 2011 at 10:03 pm

      Hi,
      Thanks for the post. I have another issue with paypal subscribe button. I have subscribe button with 4 subscription options (In html drop down list). I want to add this selected option in query string. So that my query string will look like this:

      https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=Y1TOJTYQ2ALDJ&os0=Silver Membership

      In above query string I want to set selected option for os0 parameter. I am using same code as you have explain above.

      My Code:

      Memberships

      Registration – One month : $1.00USD – monthly
      Trial Membership : $25.00USD – monthly
      Silver Membership : $250.00USD – yearly
      Gold Membership : $400.00USD – yearly

      Kindly suggest the way to pass subscription option through the query string.

      Thanks in advance.

      Reply
    6. ashish says:
      October 20, 2011 at 6:37 am

      I am using PayPal subscription button with 4 subscription options.
      I have used required field control for other controls on the same page, so when I click on Subscribe button it restrict form from posting to paypal account.
      So I replaced following code

      WITH

      Now I want to add selected option in the query string.

      https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-lick&hosted_button_id=Y1TOJTYQ2ALDJ&os0=Silver Membership

      In above query string I want to set selected option for os0 parameter.

      My current Code:

      ….

      Memberships

      Registration – One month : $1.00USD – monthly
      Trial Membership : $25.00USD – monthly
      Silver Membership : $250.00USD – yearly
      Gold Membership : $400.00USD – yearly

      …..

      So how can I add selected option in query string? or Is there any way to post a “frmPayPal” form only?

      Thanks in advance

      Reply

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