Fundraising websites such as JustGiving, Virgin Money, and GoFundMe are an effective way to do something great and support charities to make a difference to someone's life.
In this chapter, we will create a fundraising website where a fundraising page can be created by someone explaining what they are doing, who they are fundraising for, and when. This will then allow someone else to "donate" an amount to support it.
Now we know a lot of site building techniques and have an understanding of how to create content types, fields, views, users, and blocks we will cover less of how to build things that we have previously covered, but will explain more about the new things we will cover.
We will cover the following in this chapter:
- Creating a content type called donation
- Creating a content type called fundraising page
- Allowing users to sign up and donate
- Creating a dashboard for the fundraiser
- Introducing our first custom module
- Creating a donation form using Form...