Re: Fwd: automating Friends of GNOME names on website

[Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org>]

Ping?

Should I open a report in bugzilla for this?

Stormy

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Claus Schwarm <clschwarm googlemail com> wrote:
> Olav,
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> the mechanism to be used is PayPal IPN [1]. It needs a handler/listener
> script that PayPal calls when certain events occur.
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> See the code examples on PayPal's site.
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> Regards,
> Claus
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> [1] https://www.paypal.com/ipn
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> On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 13:38 +0100, Olav Vitters wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 03:35:02PM -0700, Stormy Peters wrote:
>> > I'd like to automate adding the names to the Friends of GNOME page.
>> > (There's a lot of other thing about the process that I'd like to
>> > automate as well, if someone would like to help figure out how best to
>> > do that.)
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>> I've read attached, but it doesn't really go into detail. Yes, no
>> problem to have a database. What we're more concerned with is usage of
>> PHP. That is generally disliked.
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>> Especially mention of limited PHP experience.. then I fear the PHP
>> script won't take security enough into account.
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>> But the biggest thing which is lacking: How does www.gnome.org/friends/
>> and Paypal connect? Intended as cronjob, called from Paypal when someone
>> makes a donation, something else? Really, the database part is the most
>> uninteresting bit.
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>> > I'm cc'ing a whole conversation here for background.
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>> Who uses that broken mailclient. This was very difficult to read. I've
>> fixed all the wrapping errors.
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>> > Basically, when someone makes a donation via paypal, we need to grab
>> > the "options" and if they opted to be recognized, we need to add their
>> > name to the list of donors.
>> >
>> > I can open a bugzilla request too but felt like I needed more info to
>> > be more concrete ...
>>
>> I do not understand at which stage the data is supposed to be
>> transferred from Paypal to www.gnome.org/friends/
>>
>> Leaving the rest quoted as to make it easier for others to read.
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