Introduction

In order to get an better picture of how the templates on donate.wiki relate to one another review the images below. The Landing Page is chopped up into many templates so that we can change and test individual pieces of the page without changing core functional pieces of the page. This provides us with more stability for a broader range of users.

  • Superficial changes to the various payment options can be done with editing the Form-countryspecific-* template for the country you wish to change.
  • Superficial changes to the layout and the appeal are done by changing the banner.
Landing Page example with template areas highlighted.
Fig. 1: An example of a Landing Page with boxed areas added in order to highlight the different templates that set the look and functionality of various areas.

Information flow

The flow of information from template to template is laid out in the image to the right.

Flow cart showing how information goes from banner to template to template generating a Landing Page.
Fig. 2: A flow cart showing how information goes from banner to template to template generating a Landing Page.

Banner settings completely determine which landing page is displayed, in which language, and where the page runs. All banners call the Lp-layout-default template and pass it the names of 4 templates. The default values follow:

For specifics of the donate.wiki versions of the banner code visit Styleguide/Banner.

Appeal

The "2011FR/Appeal-default" is used by Template:2011FR/Appeal-template-default to call the following 2 templates:

Payment

The template that ties together the payment form on the right of the page is Template:2011FR/Form-template-default. The country specific details are set by the template Template:2011FR/Form-countryspecific-control.

Form-countryspecific-control example

This is example code from Template:2011FR/Form-countryspecific-control/AU. The following CSS is used to enable or disable payment methods for each country by commenting out either the "display: 'status';"(on) or the "display: none;"(off).

<html>
<style type="text/css">
#CC-donate-button{
display: </html>{{CC-status}}<html>;
/*display: none;*/
}
#Ideal-donate-button{
/*display: </html>{{RT-status}}<html>;*/
display: none;
}
#eps-donate-button{
/*display: </html>{{RT-status}}<html>;*/
display: none;
}
#sofort-donate-button{
/*display: </html>{{RT-status}}<html>;*/
display: none;
}
#DD-donate-button{
/*display: </html>{{DD-status}}<html>;*/
display: none;
}
#PP-donate-button{
display: </html>{{PP-status}}<html>;
/*display: none;*/
}
#PP-USD-donate-button{
/*display: </html>{{PP-status}}<html> !important;*/
display: none;
}
#RPP-donate-button{
/*display: </html>{{PP-status}}<html>;*/
display: none;
}
#YD-donate-button{
/*display: </html>{{YD-status}}<html>;*/
display: none;
}
#MB-donate-button{
/*display: </html>{{MB-status}}<html>;*/
display: none;
}
#BP-donate-button{
/*display: </html>{{BP-status}}<html>;*/
display: none;
}
#BT-donate-button{
display: </html>{{BT-status}}<html>;
/*display: none;*/
}

#BP-donate-button{
display: </html>{{Bpay-status}}<html>;
/*display: none;*/
}
</style>
</html>

This part of the code pulls in the payment processing JS. Most of the perimeter are used to past information around. The only one that should be changed is "GC-CC-ffname". This perimeter changes the credit cards that we accept in that country. A list of options follows:

  • cc-vm
  • cc-vma
  • cc-vmj
  • cc-vmaj
{{2011FR/Form-section-processing
| uselang = {{{uselang}}}
| country = {{{country}}}
| appeal = {{{appeal}}}
| currency = {{2011FR/core-currency-code|{{{country}}}}}
| handler = GC
| GC-CC-ffname = cc-vmaj
}}

This part of the code pulls in the display method for the donation options and sets the values to be displayed. The "donate-amount-*" perimeters set the values that will be used in the country. These values are in the currency that has been set as the local currency.

{{2011FR/Form-section-radiobuttons
| country = {{{country}}}
| uselang = {{{uselang}}}
| currency = {{2011FR/core-currency-code|{{{country}}}}}
| donate-amount-0 = 5
| donate-amount-1 = 10
| donate-amount-2 = 20
| donate-amount-3 = 25
| donate-amount-4 = 50
| donate-amount-5 = 100
| donate-amount-6 = 250
}}

Helper Templates

Switch templates

The following is a list of templates templates that are used to change page content based on language, country, etc.

Payment method status

The following is a list of templates that can be use to turn on and off their respective payment methods by toogling the value stored inside the template between "block"(on) and "none"(off).