Thanks for the fast responce Gear. Ok upon further review of my problem I took at look at the message that was given.

Invalid SQL:
INSERT INTO donation_paypalipn (

I ended up uninstalling it and reinstalling the hack...carefully watched the template donation_paypalipn when it was installed and was successfull. Went through setting up the goal and buttons again and tested the ppverify.php and now I am the proud owner of a white blank screen. So my thinking is the donations_paypalipn template was corrupted and couldn't be read/accessed. Gonna play with it when I get off work and send some cash through to see if it truely is fixed.

This is my second install for this hack and I got spoiled on the first one cause that one too only took me 10 mins to install.

As for a lot of hacks.....I just the double nav bar.

Thanks
Trickle

EDIT : Well that blows my theory all to hell. I just tried donating $1 and the transaction went through to paypal alright but I got no recognition that there was any donation made. Figuring I had a bench mark to work off of I checked out the other site where I first installed this and successfully got it working and it still works 100%. But I did a check on the ppverify.php and I'll be a monkey's uncle......(slaps face like Curly on the 3 Stooges) this is what I got

Invalid SQL:
INSERT INTO donation_paypalipn (

and yet it works. I am more lost then when I started and I am by no means a coder.

Edit Again
Ok I found that if you try to test your ppverify.php it ends up creating a dead link which in turn gets you the error that I've been making above. I've access the db and deleted it and it comes back every time I try it out ie .com/ppverify.php So I am completely in the dark as to why I now have 2 sites with the same hacks with no errors on either and yet one works the way it should and the other does not. Still not recognizing the members that donated or adjusts my goal at all.
Next step is to uninstall everything and delete all templates and .xml and start over. Wish me luck

Thank you VERY MUCH!!! great !!!

So is it safe to assume if I had this on 3.0.7, and it remains in the database but files are gone - and now I want to use it AGAIN - I need to read all 59 pages ?

Sounds like it doesnt work but maybe there are fixes buried in th 59 pages? In cases like this, cant someone just release a new, working version?

Just remove the donor badge, but I want it to happen automatically.

cron job runs daily
selects all users that are currently donors
checks their latest donation and compairs the datetime of the donation + x seconds per cent of donation with the current datetime.
if its less then 0 the user.donor flag

try this

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=707

I got it working again by just reinstalling everything. I when I upgraded to 3.5.3 I lost everything. I know I'm missing something, can someone point me in the right direction and tell me what to do when I upgrade to the next VB? I'm sure its something simple.

Does anyone actually know coding? I mean its one thing to know how to fix a broken link but its another to understand why and how it got broken. I'm trying to find out why the ppverify.php is not working, (if that is my problem) why the hack works perfectly in every other aspect except in my eyes but the most glorified part letting the members brag a little to let everyone know that they donated doesn't. This is a great hack but useless to me if this function does not work.

Is there someone or somewhere that we can take this and show them this so they can fix it and make it install and run a lot smoother?

Trickle

I read through 60 pages and it is possible I missed it, but the two places on my donate page that show the total donated do not match up. I know the reason why, because I manually add several donors who send checks instead of going through Paypal, so I can update the amount towards the goal in the goal section of the admin, but I cannot find where to update the header that says

We have collected a total of $xxxx since Jan 2006

At the top of the page. Where could I do this?

Thanks!

I don't see any menu on the admincp, so I can't configure more than the options? What can I do?

This has been asked and answered about 10 times in this thread. Please reread it.