Here’s how you can get your very own donation button on your Google Code project, completely free. Everything is 100% secure and managed by PayPal. If you’ve tried this already you might know that it isn’t possible to do this, because Google Code doesn’t allow all types of HTML in the description. It’s not as hard as it might look at first. Here’s a quick tutorial on how to do it.
- Go to http://www.paypal.com.
- Sign up for an free account if you don’t have one yet. Just follow the instructions and you will do all fine.
- Once your PayPal account is active, log in.
- Go to the Merchant Tools section. Look for the Accepting Website Payments section. Click then on a link called Donations.
- Provide the information that is asked to set up your donation button.
- Ready? Then click on Create Button Now.
- Click on the Email
- First copy the donation image address on the right, and paste the link into your description on Google Code.
- Secondly copy the text inside the Email tab, which is the actual link to the PayPal donation page, and paste it into the description on Google Code.
- Now we need to fix the link to point to the link, but show the image. This is done like this: [http://the-text-from-part-9 http://the-url-from-part-8] (Notice the space between the two links.
- Click save, and your done.
If anyone is unclear on how the links should look like, heres mine: [https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=P84XTX5Y48N76&lc=NO&item_name=HellaDroid&item_number=helladroid¤cy_code=EUR&bn=PP%2dDonationsBF%3abtn_donateCC_LG%2egif%3aNonHosted https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donateCC_LG.gif]
And the result looks like this:
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Thanks for that one!
Very very useful, thanks!
Thanks for the tip! That worked like a charm.
The worked great! Thanks for the tip.
Jason
This was great. Thanks.
Thanks for this information. I’ve been trying to figure out how I want to release a bunch of opensource code I’ve been working on, with a donation button. While I could do it from my personal website, I love the Google Code Project Hosting and how it allows many people to contribute to the source in very simple non-geek ways. Google has done an outstanding job with the features. The donation button was the only thing missing. So thanks again Torstein.