your instructions based on elgg ver 1.8 ??

because there is NO riverdashboard in mod directory

therefore, i installed and activated and config the setting (got paypal code in there, etc)

but nothing shows up (no donate button or bank info)

any tips?

Hi Pietro

Well, much has changed in 1.8. Personally I have made my own 1.8 riverdashboard-like plugin and added this to the page:

$sidebar .= elgg_view_module('featured', sprintf(elgg_echo('donation:title'), elgg_get_config('sitename')), elgg_view('donation/donation'));

Its a great plugin covering everything i required and most of all i could not find a similar plugin on this much required topic. One problem is that i am using facebook theme and i am finding it difficult to add it to the mainpage sidebar. Please help on this.

what simple it is to do that. Put this code in plugins start file just after line 14 in donation_init function.

elgg_extend_view('page/elements/sidebar', 'donation/donation');

Bingo.

in /home/mrcoffee/public_html/mod/social_dashboard/views/default/page/layouts/one_sidebar.php

what code do i place to make it work? have tried all these..

@mrcoffee

I don't know social_dashboard, but it should not be put in the file you mention - if you do that you'll get the donation module on all pages that use the one_sidebar layout.

Instead go to the page you load (mod/social_dashboard/pages/index.php ?) and add it to the parameters you send.

Something like this:

$sidebar = elgg_view_module('module', sprintf(elgg_echo('donation:title'), elgg_get_config('sitename')), elgg_view('donation/donation'));

$params = array(
'content' => $body,
'title' => $title,
'sidebar' => $sidebar,
);

$body = elgg_view_layout('one_sidebar', $params);

i have this working in 1.8.8... all except the list of donators on the widget.. i added me as a donator via the admin options and that displays on the donations page.. but the widget remains empty.
i notice in the widget code that there is a $time variable that is not being set in the query code.. and it is set on the donations page query. 
so i set that.. but it made no difference..
any idea what might be the issue?
thanks 

exactly how do u get it to display in an actual side bar? it's massively displayed across the center of my page....

p.s. i'm using the Purity theme, any help on this is massively appreciated

Description text above.. says :-)

Setup:
To get this plugin to show in the sidebar of your front page you have put it in your index.php. I use the riverdashboard, so I modified /mod/riverdashboard/index.php.

After these two lines:
//set a view to display newest members$area1 .= elgg_view("riverdashboard/newestmembers");

Put in this:
//set a view to display donation$area1 .= elgg_view("donation/donation");

i followed that but instead of it displaying in a sidebar, it's in main body and massive... lol no sidebar what so ever...

Maybe it's down to my theme???? what theme is op using? any 1 klnow?

is there any reason why this only covers paypal and bank transfers?
some of the other services would be helpful, such as payza.. maybe i'll make a variation if no-one else does before me.

@Michele - haven't got a clue - I'm not usng this plugin on any of my sites at the moment, så I'll have to setup a clean installation to see what's going on.

i'm seeing deprecated function warnings for this in my site log

NO widget to dispaly!!!