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PayPal Donations For vBulletin 3.5.0
Version: 2.02, by Cloudrunner Cloudrunner is offline
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Version: 3.5.0 Beta 4 Rating:
Released: 07-02-2005 Last Update: 07-06-2006 Installs: 330
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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: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

Quote:
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

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  #1482  
Old 06-19-2007, 10:19 PM
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I need help uninstalling. Thanks
Did you read my above post on uninstalling
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Old 06-24-2007, 04:44 AM
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Just installed on 3.6.7 installed just fine and set up just fine. I had another one up but deactivated it and added this one because of the goals and listing the donors. Now I am not sure it if will actually work but I will see as soon as I get another donation, lol.

My questions are....
1. Is there anyway instead of having just the donate button, a field could be there with a preset amount that they could easily change and then it would transfer it to paypal? (This is what was done on the other one and I like that much better).
2. Also is there a way to create a field so the donator can leave a comment that will get sent with the payment (not show up on the donation list but just sent with the payment notice that I get in my e-mail) Paypal buttons have different options you can add for that but I could never figure it out on the other mod.
3. When this sends the donation does it also include the username of the donator in the e-mail when payment notification is received?
4. I had to add some donors that had donated from the other mod, they show up fine and all but is there a way to get that amount that was donated added to the donation goal I set up?

Thanks for any help you can give! It's working great (that I know of, lol). I did try searching but it's late here and my eyes are crossing from sitting too long at the computer!
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Old 06-24-2007, 02:27 PM
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1. When you create your button you can set the amount you wish if you leave the button at 0.00 the donor can donate what they wish for an amount. All you need to do is create more than one button for various amounts.
2. If you set up your paypal account you can add the feature to allow members to put notes. When the donation is made any notes can be viewed in the admin CP=>Donations=>valid transaction info.
3. No it does not. It uses the user's email address and their ip to grabe the data from the user table.
4. All you have to do is make sure that each button that is created is assigned to the goal. This is done through the admin cp create the goal then go to your button and assign it.

Hope that helps
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Old 06-24-2007, 06:50 PM
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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!
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Old 06-25-2007, 12:21 PM
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Does any one have a donation module addon for VBADVANCED CMPS v3.0 RC1
i tried the addons at the top of this page but they dont work on 3.6.7pl
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I use both of those as well, and just now installed the vBadvanced CMPS Donations Module Add-On from above and it installed and works just fine. What was it doing or not doing for you to say that it does not work?
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Old 06-25-2007, 01:02 PM
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it dont show nothing
just got the bar that says donations
www.rotormadness.com
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Old 06-25-2007, 01:22 PM
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Ok go to admincp >>> vba CMPS >>> Edit Modules >>> Donations, Edit

Check the option for clean file output. Is it on or off? If it is on turn it off. If it is off turn it on. Check with both. Reason I say is some (alot of threads) back were saying that they had to turn it on to show. However, when I turn it off it shows and if I turn it on it doesn't. However, I just noticed this with the add on module for vbadvanced:

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

Any idea what I can do to fix this

That is how I know that if I turn on clean file output it won't show because after I got this error I searched threads and it said to turn it on. I did, and I stopped getting the above but then I had the same problem you do, lol.

Maybe someone can help with the above error as well....?
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Old 06-25-2007, 01:31 PM
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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
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I think it is going to be in your adv_portal_donate template but I am not for sure on that, you may also have to edit the 2 additional templates it calls for. I am not really sure as I have not played around with that part yet. But I would copy those templates before editing that way if you do mess up, you can copy the original content back into it.
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