[Plugin: PayPal Donations] Donote button to open a new tab with Paypal

If you don’t mind making some modifications to the code, you can fix the new page pretty easy by adding a target=”_blank” to the form tag.

Locate the form tag in the code (around line 152 in v1.4.9.4):
$paypal_btn .= '<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">';
and change it to:
$paypal_btn .= '<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_blank">';

You could also modify the $reference part in the same function (generate_html()) to use the get username function istead.
Change:
$reference = (!$reference) ? $pd_options['reference'] : $reference;
to:
$reference = get_username();

You could probably even though something like:

if(is_user_logged_in())
	$reference = get_username();

Hope this helps some.

Cheers,
Johan

Sweet! I will do that, thank you very much.

When i do the following:

Change:
$reference = (!$reference) ? $pd_options[‘reference’] : $reference;
to:
$reference = get_username();

The donate button disappears from the website.

It will look like this:
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B5jM3_QoawD6ZWVjMjZjY2UtZWIxNS00N2MwLWE0MjQtNTAxZjY4OGJkOWYx&hl=en_US&authkey=CKnZurkO

Originally with out the change it looks like this:
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B5jM3_QoawD6MDllMjJhYmYtODhkYy00ZGE2LWE1NDYtY2I1OGNlMmM0ZmUy&hl=en_US&authkey=CJX82-QD

I’d guess the button disappears because get_username() is a function that doesn’t exist, so it throws an error. I assumed that get_username() was some custom function you had.

Instead you can use WP’s own function to get the current username, get_currentuserinfo.

So then it would look like this:

global $current_user;
get_currentuserinfo();
$reference = $current_user->user_login;

Cheers,
Johan

Thnx again for your swift reply.

I used the global like you said and i made this:

`// Get username from loged in user and post as reference to paypal
global $current_user;
get_currentuserinfo();
if(is_user_logged_in())
{
$reference = $current_user->user_login;
}
else
{
$reference = ‘Donatie van gastbezoeker’; // Donation from not logged in visitor
}`

Works like a charm.

Thnx for your help.