Paypal form buttons not working

[tglass118]

I generated 3 paypal buttons for our organization's website. The donate button on the Home page in the right sidebar works fine. (http://newyork.cisvusa.org/). But the Membership Dues (http://newyork.cisvusa.org/index.php?op ... &Itemid=54) and Other Payment buttons (http://newyork.cisvusa.org/index.php?op ... icle&id=61) do not work.
The article editor strips out the action url on the form tag. When I enter
<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top">
Then save, I end up with
<form method="post" target="_top">
The Donate button in the sidebar module however does not strip the URL action. So that button works.

[numinousmedia]

Make sure that your Article Manager Parameters and your article editor are both set to not strip out HTML or Javascript.

[tglass118]

I don't find that option in either Article Manager Parameters or article editor (Tiny mce) I also tried two other article editors and neither worked. Finally installed Sourcerer button and enclosed form code in {source} tags and it now works. Still don't understand why editors were stripping out only the form action URL.

[numinousmedia]

By default, most editors are set up to remove extra code to prevent formatting errors or malicious code. Joomla is also set up to prevent malicious code too. In Joomla 1.5, you can disable this feature in the article manager parameters (Set filter type to "Blacklist"). In later versions of Joomla, you can change this setting in the Global Configuration. This setting is pretty simple to disable though. In JCE, you can edit this setting in your editor user profile. Sourcerer is another good way to approach this.

[tglass118]

I had filter set to blacklist the whole time. But thanks for the info.

[dpacadmin]

A possible fix is to use no editor in the User Manager setting for your user, in this method most code is not stripped.

[tglass118]

I tried that. Didn't work.