if you read more then once youd see that i have continued to state that i still have the problem and so do a few others.. but anyway .. read on

If this is directed towards me, then yes I do have it working on 3.5.4 which is a the moment a purely developmental site until I port from my current system. As I noted I am not a coder and very inexperienced with VB. But I do have developers working for me who have gotten this to work. Unfortunatly the code is heavily intertwined in to other routines so it is not something I can just simply post for everyone. What I am trying to do is not only get a deeper understanding of VB but also trying to help get this to work for others by sharing what I can of the pieces of code I can extract and hopefully with those that are more experienced make heads and tails of what I have and pull it all together. For me at the moment the templates are my first attempt of understanding VB. We all have to start someplace.

read below. this was why i asked my question. I know u have the same issue. but i thought he didn't have the issue. so i am trying to figure out how his is working.

Thanks for the response. Did you ever have the issue of it not adding new donors when they donated. If you did have that issue are you aware of what was done to correct it. Your right we all have to start some place. i am pretty knew to this myself. so i feel your pain ha ha

To be honest I really do not know if the problem was there fromt he get go. I installed 3.5.1 and watched 3.5.2 & 3.5.3 released. Watching the bug reports I knew 3.5.4 was relatively close and decided to code freeze my site there and start development. My developers preform updates and test while I decide what is to be added based on duplicating my current system and new feature sets that are needed/wanted. So this kind of got wraped in to a few things instead of the stand alone function it is intended to preform.

So for now will work on the templates and will try to move forward from there and isolate the code causing problems and go from there.

<a href="http://forums.henshinjustice.com/donate.php" target="_blank">http://forums.henshinjustice.com/donate.php</a> <--

Two days ago, I upgraded our vBulletin from 3.5.2 and 3.5.4. I'm sure this is why our donation page is now blank. Keep in mind, I wasn't the person who originally installed this plugin so I really have no idea what I'm doing. Since I'm the one who upgraded the board, I should be the person to fix the problem. Could you please tell me what I need to do (edit one of my vB files) so I can fix this problem? I'm assuming that the person who installed this plugin edited a vBulletin file. When I reuploaded the new vB v. 3.5.4 files, they overwrote the old files.

Hmm?

I quit and I give up. After upgrading to 3.5.4 and reinstalling this paypal hack from scratch I'm still not seeing the members who make a donation. Now one last question to put this +++++ to rest. I'm trying to uninstall it and I get this error:

anyone know how to fix this?

Trickle

Is this issue gonna be sorted out :confused: , this is a good hack which all webmasters need when they have a big community and donations help them survive. SO please some1 get this thing going :devious:

i have it installed on a 3.5.4 and it's working perfectly.

I'm jealous. I don't understand what the difference is that you may have done to get it working then what I may have done. Something is missing and I fear it could be as small as a comma missing somewhere. Either way this sucks cause there is no support

Trickle

Well I install this and it failed big time for me.

There was no paypal donations menu on the left side, but was one in the vb options page, and I couldnt setup donations to select and I couldnt donate because there was nothing to select on the donate page.

Hummm...

Doug

jealousy isn't the word i need to use ha ha. well at least it working for some peeps

I really have to get this uninstalled from my forums. Can anyone please help me on this one. It seems as though I am finding other issues resulting with this hack.

Thanks
Trickle

For anyone that may need this. I have about 1/2 a million users on my forum.
When I tried installing this hack, it would hang and timeout, even crash my mysql.

To fix this issue open /admincp/donation_install/donation_install_tables.php (line 128)

Find:
Change to:
open /admincp/donation_install/donation_uninstall.php (line 98)

Find:
Change to:
What that line would do is load all the user rows into memory. If you have an insane ammount of users, it would hang (crash) mysql. So I basically modified it to only load one row, since that's all it needs to check if certain tables exist.

I noticed you were online an hour ago. Can it be that your back to save us with this hack you've created?? Oh please oh please oh please. It's a great idea and thing to have, just need some assistance.

Trickle

i've noticed his username logged in a lot over here... even spotted him reading this thread a few times, but never a reply. i'm pretty sure he's given up on this long ago.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2011/01/20.gif

I really give up now and DO NOT recommend this hack to anyone. Its not stable and I can honestly say I've spent over 15 hours over a few months on this alone with nothing to show.

This is what I did today. Realizing that I had a few issues with my forums I contacted vbulletin support. Their suggestion was to disable all plug-ins and delete all hacks. I did that and still had issues. Next I was suggested to create a completely new style and all templates would be default. I did this and it seemed to resolve all my issues. Going ahead with a working style now I deleted all my other styles. From this I assumed I had a clean slate and no bugs or issues to deal with if I was to reinstall this paypal hack. Well I can honestly say that I shouldn't have wasted my time. After reinstalling it on a new working style I was still having the same issue of the members not showing up after they donated. I manually added the member and this still didn't affect my goal. Don't know what else to say, this hack wasted over 15 hours and nothing to show and I installed this paypal hack in 10 mins working flawlessly if anyone is interested. http://www.vbadvanced.com/forum/show...ghlight=paypal

Good luck if anyone can pinpoint these issues that seems impossible to resolve.

Trickle

I will see if I can get permission to re-release this as I have my own modded version as this one messes up each time you update your forum.

How do I uninstall this excatly? Do I have to delete every file one by one? I can't seem to find a link to uninstall

http://www.yoursite.com/forums/admin..._uninstall.php
or
http://www.yoursite.com/admincp/dona..._uninstall.php

Depending on how you have your forums set up there should be an uninstall file you use. I always had "problems" so I just manually deleted the files and reverted the ones that this hack affected.

Trickle

When I try that I get this error

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: print_form_header() in /home/ryanmcba/public_html/forums/admincp/donation_install/donation_uninstall.php on line 14

I don't mind deleting the files manually but how do I get rid of the crap this hack made, like the tables?

i released it on vbulletin now but thanks for pointing it out to others :) here is the link on this site https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=105276

My main question is when I delete all these files, don't have to do something else to get rid of all the tables this hack made? The unistall doesnt work for me.

you can delete all your database tables via MySQL phpMyAdmin.

True but I don't want to delete the wrong tables. What tables do I delete?

upgraded a board i admin and it seems to be working fine. we'll see what happens when someone tries to donate.

I tried getting this to work, but I cant find where to set goals. SOmeone help me please :)

In your ACP there is an option in the left pane called payPal Donations. It is under there.

okay well i am assuming this doesn't work with 3.5.4 cuz i followed all instructions....it installed....no buttons i searched and followed idrections... am i doing something worng? do i need to do the <?php on each page? i thought i wouldn't have to seeing as it installed....i just have no buttons....please?

i have no acp menu for this either...i followed directions after searching....i have now edited all the files to <?php except for the install files which i wasn't sure about deleting just yet as i might need to reinstall it(plus my uninstall for it doesn't work but if i run the install again there is a button for uninstall which works nicely). i have reread the whole thread...i see some 3.5.4 users got it to work. was there an upgrade that i missed. i did read about the upgrade but i don't see it...can someone please help me


http://www.teamrespawn.com/vBulletin/donate.php

i really have searched this thread and tried everything....i must have done something wrong when i edited or something.


one last thing....what if i installed the donations.zip? would i have to uninstall this one or should i just over write everything? or is it not a good idea?

donation_buttons
donation_currency_exchange
donation_donors
donation_goals
donation_paypalipn

unless you're more familiar with your database, i wouldn't mess with anything else. the above are the main ones you can dump.

ok i have just upload this to my site i uploaded it into my forum folder so i typed this in http://www.mydomain.com/forum/Paypal...ns_install.php but i got this error

"Warning: main(./global.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/host/public_html/forum/Paypal/admincp/donations_install.php on line 23

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required './global.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/host/public_html/forum/Paypal/admincp/donations_install.php on line 23"

i wouldnt have installed it i tried it 2 times and both times it didnt work for me others it does sometimes but its very buggy

Yea great reason, except for the error this guy has is due to him being unable to follow the install instructions for uploading everything properly.

well there is a few things wrong with this it dont always show who donated or log them as posted alot in this thread and im sure not alot of people want to read 60 some pages to find bugs but if i do remember one the xml has to be changed also from vBulletin to vbulletin

as i said its a shame no other coder has decided to take over this hack

Ok i have a problem.. I installed this and everything went fine, but the PayPal Donations tab in the AdminCP does not show what is the cause of this problem..
This is what i am talking about...

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2006/03/2.jpg

Oh, what files out of the 34 do i delete (18 deleting) which will leave me 16 left please be specific.. Thnx

The first problem has been covered many times in this thread. https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=902

Thnx for your help i must have missed that post for some odd reason.. Thnx again :)

okay guys i have 3.5.4

i have been trying to get the acp donations up....

In the cpnav_paypal_donations.xml


<navgroups product="vBulletin">I didn't have this on the top of the page....


replaced <navgroups product="ppdonations"> with <navgroups product="vbulletin">



i also added php after the ?at the top....

don't know but i never found this once anywhere.....\

maybe it will help someone else.

only problem now is....how do i create buttons? i see the add buttons but i don't know what to put in the boxes....yes i really am this blond..

nevermind figured that out too...was just a blond moment or the inability to read the word "OPTIONAL"

however i really do not understand how to get this thing to work....i added my buttons i tested it and it wanyts me to login to my sandbax....why??? i did but i don't follow.