Department of Computer Science

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Department of Computer Science
Engineering
Senior Project Building The Health Jam Donation
Services
By James Lyon and Kanesh Patel

• The problem
• Health Jam, a non-profit organization, requires
  the capability to accept online donations.
• The Health Jam staff also wants a record of donor
  and donation history.
• Various other functions are needed to assist
  Health Jam in its online services.

• Specifications
• We forward donors to the Pay Pal site to ensure
  proper security.
• Donor information is recorded by Pay Pal and
  passed on and stored in our MySQL database using
  Pay Pals Instant Payment Notification service
  (IPN).
• The password protected database viewer collects
  information from the database and prints it on
  screen in a flexible format.
• The event calendar is viewable by all visitors to
  the Health Jam website, but only administrators
  have access to edit its contents. It is built
  using php, and its contents are stored in the
  MySQL database (Fig. 2).
• The contact us page forwards any messages
  visitors may have to the Health Jam staff.
• The password-protected admin page is locked by
  placing the admin pages in an htaccess-locked
  folder on the Health Jam server.
• The file manager is built-in to the Health Jam
  site via the php-admin services.

• The Requirements
• Visiting donors must be able to make both
  one-time and recurring donations (Fig. 1).
• The information from the donators must be stored
  in a database for record-keeping purposes.
• The site must include a database viewer for
  administrative functions, sortable by any number
  of criteria.
• In addition, Health Jam requires an event
  calendar, a file manger, a password-protected
  admin page, and a contact us page.

Figure 1 Visitors looking to donate to the
Health Jam cause will find their easy to use
donation services on this page

• Design and Implementation
• Pay Pal IPN (Instant Payment Notification) is an
  interface from Pay Pal to the merchant that
  allows customer information to be transferred to
  the merchants website.
• Php is a scripting language which we used to
  implement the data transfer process on the Health
  Jam website for the IPN variables, as well as the
  event calendar and contact us page.
• MySQL was used to store donor information, as
  well as events in the event calendar.

Acknowledgements We wish to thank Jennifer Gatza,
president of Automaton Engineering, Maribel Cruz,
CEO of Health Jam, and Dr. Christensen.
Figure 2 The Health Jam staff can use this
calendar to schedule events and make them
viewable to visitors.