Gift Subscriptions
 

This is a mod to let users buy a paid subscription for other members on the board. This addon is just updated from the user Jamoss. All credit goes to her, my team of people just updated it to work in 4.0.2.

Thanks zachd.

1. Modify 3 templates
2. modify 1 script (payments.php) -- PLEASE backup and save your old script for upgrade purposes.

Thanks for posting this update. I applied this change for 3.x and enjoyed it.

When I followed the instructions for this one, it is not complete here. On the final confirmation page for PayPal I get a blank User field as below in the table you have added the User column to (nice touch):

Subscription Duration Cost User
Basic Membership 6 Months US$20.00 [nothing]

What does this point to as missing?

Update: (Note that the page before, the new field labeled (for a gift sub, enter recipient's username) is filled in with my ID by default)

Update2: I think the problem is that in the code you gave in the txt file subscription_user is displayed but never set. It does not exist anywhere in VB4 templates either (judging from no search results). Did you mean to use some other variable there?

I fixed it. You forgot to register with the page_templater as follows:

AFTER
$page_templater->register('subscription_title', $subscription_title);

INSERT
$page_templater->register('subscription_user', $recipientname);

Happy gift subscribing to all.

You are 100% right. We had made the change, but forgot to document it.

Thanks for the headsup.

Updated.

Glad to help. By any chance have you taken a look at this one and updated it? That's the other on vb4 ruined for me.

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...or-New-Members

Will this work with 3.8.5? I really love the idea of this, and want to apply it to my 3.8.5 board. Thanks.

I am about to apply this to our forums, but I have some questions/suggestions first.

1. Could you make it so that when someone purchases a subscription for a friend, that friend gets notified by PM AND EMAIL? (Make an option, either one or both)

2. Friend gets notified as well when the payee (or person who subscribed for him) cancels. Again, email, PM , or both.

Also my question is, if I subscribe for someone else, does that mean that I get added to the additional usergroup lets say "premium gamer" and my friend who i subscribed for gets added to the same usergroup? Or does it recognize that i subscribed for someone else and ONLY adds my friend to that group?

I wouldn't want both people to get added to that same usergroup.

And as a feature, for the person who's being nice and subscribing for someone else, could you make it so that they get put in a lets say... "nice supporter" usergroup while the friend gets put in the original usergroup intended to "premium gamer" ?

Thanks.

tagged

try this one for 3.x
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=166121

Marked as installed bro. ;)

What would I need to edit to support usernames with <> for example?

I think that htmlspecialchars() needs to be in here somewhere but I do not know where it needs to go.

Note that by adding in htmlspecialchars() it should also reduce the odds that this script can be exploited.

Fixed:

Replace:
$goo=$db->query_read_slave("SELECT userid from ". TABLE_PREFIX ."user where username='".$_POST['giftname']."'");

With:
$sqlname = htmlspecialchars($_POST['giftname']);
$goo=$db->query_read_slave("SELECT userid from ". TABLE_PREFIX ."user where username='".$sqlname."'");

@op I just wanted to say thanks for this, my users are very happy with this mod.

@Zero this helped as i have a lot of users with weird names.

Working on vb4.1.0

As I now actually use vb 4 (previously I was using vb3 despite posting how to fix the error) I wanted to post a fully patched version for people to use as a base install so they do not have problems. I use this exact file myself for instructions and if it stops working for me I will post back here with an update if I manage to fix it myself.

this mod is great but i tested if there is a way to choose what usergroup cant get gifted becuase i dont want any staff to get gifted the subscribed usergroup so i will have to remove it.. till there is a better gifting mod

Dosen't seem to work on v4.2

Any fixes for this?

payments.php does not exist or I cannot find it, where else should that segment of code go?

It does exist and is in the root directory for your vbb install. Also I am not sure if the one posted by the OP works or not but the one that I linked a few years back still works fine even on the latest version.

its working in vb 4.2.0 or not ?
if use this mod then members paying subs like as gift ?