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UPDATE:

I'm friggin tired....so I'm going to bed....

Let me know if there's anything I missed that you know of that's not in the todo up top there.

I've removed the code for the contributors on the main donations page...for obvious reasons.

And I'm not gonna start the awards addition until I figure out how I'm gona implement it.

For now, I just gotta tweak and write the installation scripts and such, but it's close to alpha.

Thanks to everyone who has support me in this one.

Well i must say this look really good. I have a similar hack working but it is far more simple. And doesn't rely on paypal's IPN system simply because it is too open to fraud :)

- miSt

1) Care to elaborate on how the IPN is open to fraud?

The reason I ask is this, The verification system is hardcoded (i.e. you cannot send it dynamic data to try to *spoof* my script into thinking that you are paypal's IPN server) to send the information only to one server, Papal's IPN verfier, if that server did not send the information, it returns an INVALID response, if my hack receives ANY INVALID response, or if it receives any suspicious information, the information is dumped into a seperate table for questionable transactions.

So the long and short of the matter is that the information HAS to come from Paypal's server, or it won't be added to the contributions.

2) This is the second post where someone has basically said, they've a better system....however, I did search the the site here, and found nothing that comes close to what has been requested, and what I need specifically for my site.

While I appreciate the fact that the users should have a choice of what hacks they can use, etc, and if there is a better hack somewhere, they should know about it...What I don't appreciate is when someone posts they've a better hack than the one I'm trying to build within this thread. If you've a better hack, kewl, post that with a link to where we can find it so we can make the choice.

3) While currently the hack relies on Paypal's IPN, it is in no way the only system that will be used once this goes into full release. I have plans in the works for you to be able to use any number of payment gateways that use and instant notification system. But that goes into the code later on. I simply want to get the system working first off. The other gateways will be added as simple code upgrades that will require nothing more to upgrade than simply uploading a new file.

Thanks.

Sorry if I sound irritated, but I am slightly...I hope you can understand.

Love and light to you all

)O( Cloudrunner )O(

WE'RE HAVING THE BABY!!!

No really, My wife is in the hospital now, unfortunately, she's not yet far enough into labor to pop....but she's in active labor right now.

YAY!!!

Will post pics later.

I wish you all the best but it was someone who told me about the IPN system being open to fraud... I myself haven't had time to fully investigate into it as last time i took a look at using it i almost died from the complicatedness of it ;)

- miSt

Actually, it's not complicated at all, IPN sends a notification, your server sends the info back to the server, if everything checks out, paypal sends a "VERIFIED" response, and you know it's a good payment.

Anyways, Pre-Alpha is finished. Gonna do some tweaks, then the invites for testers for alpha.

Alpha Stage is reached...lol...

It's running on my server, and running well....

Invites have been sent. Will update again when release goes beta.

yep! Check the lounge.

I have replied your pm.

kind of going off topic for a second,did your wife have the baby?

Yep check the lounge ;) ^^

found it, kind of odd how the posts got out of order

yeah, it was strange, every time I posted it showed up directly below the last post I did instead of at the end of the thread....oh well....

Is there any code to test, download?

Yes i am very interrested in running this hack also!! :)

The invites have been sent, and alpha is in full swing. I figure a week or two and Beta will be released to the public.

Sorry to keep ya'll waiting like this, but I really don't wanna release a buggy hack ya know?

)O( Cloudrunner )O(

Oh, ok. Just keep in touch!

This looks awesome!! I can't wait to try it out, thanks so much for taking this thing on, Cloudrunner, and congratulations on the baby! :)

Thank you! I hope to release the hack within the next week or so. With VB3's beta release, I'll be looking into recoding it for that as well. So I'll be releasing two hacks, one for vb2 and one for vb3.

The vb3 release I hope to have coded to coincide with the full release of vb3, and not the beta. We'll see though.

I would like to alpha test this :)

Well, after a few days of testing, we've already ID'd a few small bugs, they have been fixed. I am still waiting on a few folks to beat the hell out of this script, but right now we're sitting at 0.8.2-Alpha.

If you have posted to this thread, previous to the alpha stage, then you should have an invite in your PMs. Check them for information on grabbing the code for testing.

Enjoy!
)O( Cloudrunner )O(

Up to 0.8.4-Alpha...still waiting on a few suggestions and bugs (if any are left).

I'd like to thank ap0c for kick me in the butt over the last day or two with bugs found!

Any update on the release date? Should it be within the next week? I can't wait to get this one up and running! :)

Just an FYI:

With the release of VB3, I will NOT be doing any changeover of this hack to vb3 UNTIL it reaches RC stage. It is just too buggy to be a reliable test platform for me as of yet. Don't expecting anything from this hack for VB3 until probably AFTER vb3 goes gold.

Doesn't vB3 have it's own IPN connection to Paypal inbuilt?

yes, but it is for subscription based transactions only as far as I can tell. Correct me if I'm wrong of course...but after going through the code, I don't think it will do what I'm trying to do, which is recognizing contributors and also requesting donations. I'll probably be using bits and pieces of the paypal code already built into vb3 so I don't have to take as much time to do this hack for it, but for the most part this is a setup for donations and recognizing those donators to your site.

Still can't wait.

Check yer PM's there Theutus...

I'll be waiting until Tuesday (21 June 2003) for any more Alpha suggestions and bugs. On Tuesday if there are no major fixes needed, Paypal Donations will go public Beta.

Thank you to everyone who has helped me with this hack. I could not have gotten this far without the inspiration and help from you all.

Paypal Donations has gone BETA!

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=54436

Thank you to all of you who have supported me in this and provided feedback for me!

Mods, you can close this thread now...Thank you for the use of it ;)