PayPal Donations For vBulletin 3.5.0

Sorry Guys...I have disappeared from vB coding completely for the time being...RL is paying me $35/hour to ignore it lol. Hope you understand why I haven't been around...

Paypal Donations For vBulletin 3.5
Version 2.02b

Hack Provided and coded by )O( Cloudrunner )O( of The Noble Pagan.
Release version: 2.02b
Release Date: 03 July 2005

Change Log

Paypal Donations 2.02

• Fixed Bug introduced with the installer for the tables from 2.01
• Added Who's Online Support Plugins For Donations Script

Paypal Donations 2.01

• Fixed a small bug in the display of the top / last donors on the donate page.

Paypal Donations 2.00

• Ported system over to vBulletin 3.50
• Added ability for the installer to install template edits automatically
• System installs plugins automatically
• Fixed some minor bugs that were present in 1.07 of the 3.0.7 vBulletin donations system.

Special Thanks

Special Thanks goes to the following people, without their support, this would never have happened:

dsboyce8624
guvner
SLeeeper
And all of the Alpha Testers that helped out with this Hack!

I couldn't have done it without you all, Thank you!

)O( Cloudrunner )O(

What Paypal Donations Is:

Paypal Donations is a complete system that controls donations and how they are received via backend interfacing between your vBulletin server and Paypal's payment gateway server. The beauty of this marriage of servers is quite simply automation of the donation process as well as security of the transactions for both you, the administrator, and your users. With the Paypal donations system installed on your forums, you will be able to bring in that much needed income to not only keep your forums alive, but also to help defer costs of doing so to the users of your site without having to bug everyone and beg for money.

This seamless integration of Paypal as your backend payment processor not only provides your user with a well known and safe payment processor, but you are saved the hassle of opening a merchant account with your banking institution as well as saves you time in the process as it takes only a few short minutes to sign up with Paypal if you are not already an account holder there.

System Requirements

OS: vBulletin 3.5 (if you are running this already, then your server has the required installation, GD libraries are required, as well as CURL capabilities for this system to work)

Things To Do Before Installation

Direct File Edits To vB Resident Files: 1 (needed to group templates in AdminCP)
File Uploads: 34 (Of which 18 will be deleted after installation, leaving a total of 16 Files on your server)
Direct Database Queries: None, the installer does these for you
Direct Plugin Installation: None, the installer does these for you
Direct Template Modification: None, the installer installs all new templates, and modifies the resident templates as needed

The uninstaller will remove all modifications (to include the templates) should you decide to remove the system from your server.

How To Install / Upgrade Paypal Donations

Installation and Upgrading are as easy as a human like me could make it. Simply upload all the files from the archive to your server keeping the folder hierarchy intact and then point your browser to the installation file. On most servers it will be one of the following:

• http://www.yourdomain.com/admincp/donations_install.php
• http://www.yourdomain.com/forum/admi...ns_install.php

Just follow the prompts from there folks, the installer does all the database, template, plugin, phrasing, and settings automatically for you!

If you ever decide to remove the system, just upload the install files and folder again and run the installer and choose uninstall. The uninstaller will remove any and all modifications that it did to your files, database, and templates automatically as well. Its as easy as you can get!

Time to install: less than five minutes depending on your upload speed.

Steps To Perform After Installation

1. You must make sure that you have either a Business or Premiere account with Paypal.
   1. If you do not, then you will need to upgrade your Paypal account to that level before this system will work.
2. You must have Paypal's IPN (Instant Payment Notification) turned on in your Paypal Profile.
   1. You do not need to have it pointing at any particular file for this system to work as the system will tell Paypal where to send the IPN to credit your users and notify you of the transaction.
3. You will need to run through the donations settings at the end of the installer and make sure that you have all the required information in there.
4. Please note that this system can be placed into test mode (default setting is ON when system is first installed).
   1. This setting tells the system whether to speak with the real Paypal Server for transactions or with Paypal's Sandbox (testing) server. If you wish to test the system before going live you will need to have access to Paypal's Sandbox server, you can sign up for access there at: http://developer.paypal.com.
5. You will need to input your Paypal Account Email into the settings
6. You will need to input the full URL to your donate.php file so that your users can make it back to your site after payment
7. You will need to input the full URL to your ppverify.php file so that Paypal can send your IPNs to you and your system can process the information and give your users credit for the donation

License

Originally Posted by Brandon J. Briggs aka. Cloudrunner

As the original author of the Paypal Hacks for vBulletin 3.0.x and 3.5.x I give full authorization to modify, recode, compile and/or reverse engineer the paypal donation hacks to any and all fully licensed members of vBulletin.org. I also give permission to fully distribute any derivative works that are created due to this authorization without need of providing credit or other means of recompense.

I am releasing this authorization in the hopes that someone will be able to carry on the work that was begun.

Final words

You will need to add a link somewhere in your navigation system for vBulletin pointing your users to the donations page (if you installed the vBadvanced Module then you have a link on the home page, but you might want to add one in the nav bar as well), as well as setting up your paypal account to give IPN responses to you, you can do this in your Paypal Profile under Instant Payment Notification.

To play in PayPal's Sandbox you will need to be registered with their developer network and setup a few sandbox accounts to play with the sandbox properly. I have throughly tested the sandbox functionality, and it is working until they decide to change coding standards again.

I sincerely hope that you enjoy this hack, Please feel free to send feedback to tnp@noblepagan.com !

Thank you!

)O( Cloudrunner )O(

P.s. Should you feel the need to donate to me in thanks, I will not stop you , in fact I will say thank you and that your support is greatly appreciated. If you do donate to me for this hack, I will give the recognition here as well as on The Noble Pagan. You can find my donations page here (also works as a demo site should you feel the need to check it out):

The Noble Pagan Donation Page

[csavern]

Ok after I added the vbadvanced addon module, it all works fine, however, when you are viewing the forums index and click on the title of one of the latest posts, I get this:

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/usmchan/public_html/msg/modules/donate.php:47) in /includes/functions.php on line 2785

I dont seem to have that problem
I have just clicked all over the forum and have no problems that i can see

[txsbmw]

I think I know why you don't have it and I do. I integrated the forums in with vbadvanced so I can show some modules on those pages as well (see here):
http://www.usmchangout.com/msg

I may just have to remove it from the forums part for now and leave it up on the vbadvanced index page until I can figure out how to fix it.

[txsbmw]

Nevermind, had to remove it from the forums pages. If you viewed as a guess another error message would come up when trying to click on one of the forums saying cookies alread sent or something to that nature, so I just left it on the vbadvanced index page (like you have it).

[sinisterpain]

Originally Posted by txsbmw

1. Yes that is what I have done, but I was wondering if it is possible instead of having them fill it out at Paypal, if it could be inputed on the donation form before it is sent to paypal, like the other one does.
2. My paypal account has been set up for several years now. Never saw an option to do that. By any chance do you know where that would be done at? I thought it had to actually be put in the paypal button code (at least that is what it says on paypal).
3. Well crap, LOL!
4. Yes I have that set up, but I am talking about donors that donated before this was ever installed. I had to manually add them via add donor with the amount but it did not reflect it within the goal amount.

Thanks for helping me!

1. Why would you want to do that as the idea is for your donors to enter confidential info through the security of the Paypal site. But to answer your question it probably is possible but I would not do that.
2. You are correct, if you go to your paypal account and go through the options for creating a button it gives the code for allowing notes to be added. You would need to edit the template donations_bits and add the following

<input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="0">

check the info at paypal but I believe thats it.

[sinisterpain]

Originally Posted by csavern

Works thank you much
1 other thing if you dont mind how can i change the back ground color
it is white the rest of forum is grey

You need to edit the template without looking at your styles I would try this in the adv_portal_donation template

<td class="" align="center"><span class="smallfont">

There are two instances of this in the template so you need to change both too

<td class="alt1" align="center"><span class="smallfont">

[txsbmw]

Ok just had someone make a donation, it got added to the goals like it is suppose to (this was also a previous donor that I did manually add) however instead of it showing as a member transaction adding to his amount that he has donated, it added it as a guest transaction. Any ideas? I think also he did it right before I set the IPN notification to yes with the url pointing to my ppverify.php could that be the reason?

Also, how do I add the amount that he just donated to his previous donation so it shows the total amount he has donated now? And how to get those manual donors I added to show the amounts within the goal. For instance I added 3 donors ($10, $10, $50) because they donated before I got this mod installed. But the goal amount received is $0 (well it shows $41 now because of the donation just received) I would like it to add the amounts from the previous donations, but not sure how.

And thank you for your other help. Reason I wanted the amount form on my site is it made it easier for donors to do everything there instead of at paypal (at least that is what they preferred). I think I will play around with that and the comments and see what I can come up with. Even though I have had paypal for years I never really looked at all the options they have.

[txsbmw]

LMAO I just figured out how to get the prior donations I added to show up! Click View Goals Edit goals and add the amount there! Geeze!

[sinisterpain]

If the same donor makes another donation it will add to his total, so if you did not have the ipn set yes that would do it. Yes that is how you update adding a manual donor must update the goal. I believe paypal has a function to allow use of your own page but there are conditions for using it.

[DieselMinded]

Edited

[DieselMinded]

My Installation didnt complete So it wouldnt let me uninstall using the uninstaller Im scared of this thing , I removed all my uploads

DM