Be sure to download the New Media Campaigns NGP API toolkit and put the NgpDonation.php in your theme’s “includes” folder. Or wherever you like.

add_action("gform_validation", "process_credit_card_data");

/*
* Courtsey of
* http://www.newmediacampaigns.com/blog/accept-campaign-donations-with-the-ngp-contribution-api
* http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Gform_validation
*/
function process_credit_card_data($validation_result) {
    // print_r($form); // for debugging
    // print_r($validation_result);
    // print_r($_POST);
    if ($validation_result['is_valid']) {
        $cycle = strftime("%Y", time());
        /* ******************** FORM ID 2-3 ******************** */
        if (($validation_result['form']['id'] == 2)) {
            $source = "12LunchPhx";
            // attempt payment -- being ready to reject if needed.
            // prepare fields
            $lastName = $_POST['input_1_6'];
            $firstName = $_POST['input_1_3'];
            // My form has a checkbox to say "same as billing?"
            if ($_POST['input_28_1'] == "Yes") {
                // use reg. address
                $address1 = $_POST['input_2_1'];
                $zip = $_POST['input_2_5'];
                } else {
                // use billing address
                $address1 = $_POST['input_27_1'];
                $zip = $_POST['input_27_5'];
            }
            // this makes testing a lot less expensive.
            // note that we're using the Gravity Forms auto-totalling here.
            if (trim($lastName) == "test") {
                $amount = 1;
                } else {
                $amount = $_POST['input_29'];
            }
            $ccnum = $_POST['input_30'];
            list($expMonth, $expYear) = explode('/', $_POST['input_31']);
            $result = do_transaction($lastName, $firstName, $address1, $zip, $amount, $ccnum, $expMonth, $expYear, $cycle, $source);
            if ($result !== true) {
                $validation_result['is_valid'] = false;
                foreach($validation_result["form"]["fields"] as &$field){
                    //NOTE: replace 30 with the field you would like to show the validation on.
                    if ($field["id"] == "30"){
                        $field["failed_validation"] = true;
                        $field["validation_message"] = $result;
                        break;
                    }
                }
                } else {
                // I like to blank credit card data so it's not stored locally.
                $_POST['input_30'] = 'Blanked for liability reasons.';
            }
            return $validation_result;
            /* ******************** END FORM ID 2 ******************** */
            } else {
            return $validation_result;
        }
        } else {
        return $validation_result;
    }
}

function do_transaction($lastName, $firstName, $address1, $zip, $amount, $ccnum, $expMonth, $expYear, $cycle, $source) {
    require 'includes/NgpDonation.php';
    // Your string goes below. Will look something like the following:
    $apiString = "W8YnwP77BY4I6kSwm2xJ09n3F1J+4hGffs321fsar1n8LPMYsOrx1jPP2cKquKYeaRVqxpgJ8KkhGdQfj4Q==";
    // $amount = 1;
    //echo("do_transaction($lastName, $firstName, $address1, $zip, $amount, $ccnum, $expMonth, $expYear, $cycle)\n\n");
    $d = new NgpDonation($apiString, true, array(
    'FirstName' => $firstName,
    'LastName' => $lastName,
    'Address1' => $address1,
    'Zip' => $zip,
    'Cycle' => $cycle,
    'Amount' => $amount,
    'CreditCardNumber' => $ccnum,
    'ExpYear' => $expYear,
    'ExpMonth' => $expMonth,
    'Source' => $source
    ));
    $result = $d->save();
    if ($result) {
        return true;
        } else {
        if ( $d->hasErrors() ) {
            $errors = $d->getErrors();
            //print_r($errors);
        }
        if ( $d->hasFault() ) {
            $fault = $d->getFault();
            //print_r($fault);
        }
        $result = $d->getResult();
        $errorString = $result->VendorResult->Message;
        return $errorString;
    }
}

Thanks to New Media Campaigns  for their great toolkit for NGP.

If all  you want to do is add emails, you can pretty easily get that going by taking the above and mixing it with this:

Using the NGP API to add email addresses

And yeah, it’d be even better to make this into a true Gravity Forms module/plugin/whatever since you have to manually re-write the function every time you add a new form. If you do this, let me know!

in tiny_mce/plugins/imagemanager/classes/FileSystems/LocalFileImpl.php

look for

function &listFilesFiltered(&$filter) {

then, right after this line:

sort($fileArray);

add this:

$sortedFiles = array();
foreach($fileArray as $file) {
     $key = filemtime($dir . "/" . $file);
     while(isset($sortedFiles[$key])) $key++;
     $sortedFiles[$key] = $file;
}
ksort($sortedFiles);
$fileArray = array_reverse(array_values($sortedFiles));

I know it’s not the most elegant solution, but it works! Or did I miss something? Is there any easier way to do this?

Read Adobe’s statement here

• “People HATE email-gathering splash screens, which are now standard-issue on most campaign sites. In fact, some users (older ones in particular) found them so confusing that they tried to leave the sites entirely.”
• “Strikingly, once users got past the splash screens, the sites frequently did a terrible job of collecting email addresses on internal pages (I’m lookin’ at you, Mitt). C’mon kids — nonprofits have known to put a clear email signup form or button on every page for years.”
• “Testers often noticed Obama2008-style imagery and features and pointed them out. Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but there’s a difference between covering a song and committing plagiarism. Turns out, people can spot it.”

There’s much more in their article and full report. Check it out:

• Republican Presidential Sites (Largely) Fail Usability Test

What am I missing here?

Here’s the landing page I prepared for people coming to our website from theirs.

A good read!

Download the full report (6MB pdf)

http://idealware.org/reports/2010-os-cms

http://www.myngp.com/ngpapi/APIService.asmx

And you can download their docs here:

http://www.myngp.com/ngpapi/

I’m using NuSoap here since that seems to be the easiest.

Update: Where’s my API code and all that? Just log into the MyNGP dashboard, click File –> Preferences –> API Preferences.

Client Code:

<?php

require_once('nusoap/nusoap.php');

class NgpEmailSignupClient {

 public $credentialString;
 public $mainCode;
 public $campaignID;

 function NgpEmailSignupClient($credentialString, $mainCode, $campaignID) {
 $this->debug = false;
 $this->credentialString = $credentialString;
 $this->mainCode = $mainCode;
 $this->campaignID = $campaignID;
 }

 function addEmail($email, $zip, $firstName = '', $lastName = '') {

 if (!$zip) $errs[] = "Zip code is required.";
 if (!$email) $errs[] = "Email is required.";
 if ( count($errs) ) {
 echo '<h1>Error</h1><ul>';
 foreach ($errs as $err) {
 echo '<li>'.$err.'</li>';
 }
 echo '</ul>';
 exit;
 }
 // Create the XML string containing all our data
 // http://www.myngp.com/ngpapi/transactions/Email/ContactWithEmailSet.xsd
 $xml = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>';
 $xml .= "<contactWithEmailSet>";
 $xml .= "<contact>";
 $xml .= ( isset( $lastName ) && !empty( $lastName ) ) ? "<lastName>{$lastName}</lastName>" : '<lastName />';
 $xml .= ( isset( $firstName ) && !empty( $firstName ) ) ? "<firstName>{$firstName}</firstName>" : '<firstName />';
 $xml .= ( isset( $zip ) && !empty( $zip ) ) ? "<zip>{$zip}</zip>" : '<zip />';
 $xml .= ( isset( $email ) && !empty( $email ) ) ? "<email>{$email}</email>" : '<email />';
 $xml .= "</contact>";
 $xml .= "<mainCode>{$this->mainCode}</mainCode>";
 $xml .= "<optIn>1</optIn>";
 $xml .= "<campaignID>{$this->campaignID}</campaignID>";
 $xml .= "</contactWithEmailSet>";

 $client = new nusoap_client('http://www.myngp.com/ngpapi/APIService.asmx?wsdl', true) or
     die("Error instantiating SOAP client");

 // Do the call
 $params = array(
 'RequestXML' => $xml,
 'transType' => 'contactWithEmailSet',
 'credentialString' => $this->credentialString
 );
 $result = $client->call('processRequestWithCreds', $params);

 if ($client->fault) {
 //print_r($client->return);
 //echo $xml . "\n\n";
 return $err;
 exit;
 } else {
 // Check for errors
 $err = $client->getError();
 if ($err) {
 //print_r($client->return);
 //echo $xml . "\n\n";
 //echo $err;
 return $err;
 exit;
 } else {
 return true;
 exit;
 }
 }
 }
}

Demonstration Usage

So you see in the part below where it says “THIS_IS_WHERE_YOUR_STRING_GOES”? You need to change this, and you need to change the next two lines after it too. You should be able to get the credentials you need from your NGP contact. Don’t try and use what you see below without adding your own strings!

<?php
include_once('NgpEmailSignupClient.php');
// Each of these three values needs to be customized for your specific application.
$credentialString = "THIS_IS_WHERE_YOUR_STRING_GOES";
$mainCode = "WebEMAIL";
$campaignID = 1234;
// These values will presumably come from script or form input
// They should be validated before reaching this point
$email = 'sample@email.com';
$zip = '12345';
$ngpClient = new NgpEmailSignupClient($credentialString, $mainCode, $campaignID);
if (true === $ngpClient->addEmail($email, $zip)) {
 echo "Success!";
} else {
 echo "Failure!";
}

?>

Download as a single zip file: Simple PHP Email Signup Demo

6 Reasons Small Businesses Need WordPress

http://www.fastcompany.com/1661139/6-reasons-small-businesses-need-wordpress

“WordPress no longer looks like a blog. For small businesses who wouldn’t know a blog from a bag of potato chips, WordPress is a website, otherwise known as a content management system. It gives them control. Period.”

Will WordPress jam Drupal with Thelonius

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/will-wordpress-jam-drupal-with-thelonius/6704

“But WordPress is not just a blogging platform. It is, in fact, a full-fledged content management system, a CMS. It has been given awards as a CMS, and beaten Drupal in that category.”