PayPal Donations For vBulletin 3.5.0

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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

[dizzine]

hey sinisterpain...absolutely excellent add-on this..
i am however experiencing a problem..

i use a paypal business account and have already got IPN on for my shop (which uses a different URL to my forum)..
the notification URL for IPN is http://shop.xxxxxx.com/payments/paypal_ipn.php
my forum is on http://forums.xxxxxx.com
and the donations settings are pointing to http://forums.xxxxxx.com/forums/ppverify.php therefore..

when someone donates the transaction goes through succesfully according to paypal but the goal progress is not updated and no valid/invalid/pending transactions appear in the summary page..
guessing i have an issue with a IPN notify URL already pointing to my shop file..

any clues as to how i can get this working properly..?
really want to use this on my forum..

(vb3.5.4)
many thanks

[sinisterpain]

Originally Posted by dizzine

hey sinisterpain...absolutely excellent add-on this..
i am however experiencing a problem..

i use a paypal business account and have already got IPN on for my shop (which uses a different URL to my forum)..
the notification URL for IPN is http://shop.xxxxxx.com/payments/paypal_ipn.php
my forum is on http://forums.xxxxxx.com
and the donations settings are pointing to http://forums.xxxxxx.com/forums/ppverify.php therefore..

when someone donates the transaction goes through succesfully according to paypal but the goal progress is not updated and no valid/invalid/pending transactions appear in the summary page..
guessing i have an issue with a IPN notify URL already pointing to my shop file..

any clues as to how i can get this working properly..?
really want to use this on my forum..

(vb3.5.4)
many thanks

I am a little confused when you mix in the shop information and what you are trying to do with the Donation Mod.
The notify URL should be the link to the ppverify.php file for donations. By what you have posted your notification URL is to your payments/paypal_ipn.php. This must be set in the donation hack but must also be set in your paypal account and you can not have two notification URLs. I appreciate the links but I need more info on what you are trying to accomplish as I can no follow the logic of the shop and the donation Mod.

[dizzine]

apologies..maybe i didnt explain it very well..

okay..currently i have an online shop which uses the paypal IPN already..the url in paypal points to my shop paypal_ipn script..
the donation mod requires the paypal IPN url to be pointing at the mod ppverify script..

therefore (i assume) if i am already using my IPN in paypal i cant use it for this mod as i can only specify one paypal IPN url..

hope that makes more sense..

[sinisterpain]

Originally Posted by dizzine

apologies..maybe i didnt explain it very well..

okay..currently i have an online shop which uses the paypal IPN already..the url in paypal points to my shop paypal_ipn script..
the donation mod requires the paypal IPN url to be pointing at the mod ppverify script..

therefore (i assume) if i am already using my IPN in paypal i cant use it for this mod as i can only specify one paypal IPN url..

hope that makes more sense..

As far as I know paypal only allows one url. You would have to either combine the scripts or have another account for donations. It may be best to pose the question at paypal and see what they say.

[scan-pa]

Hi everyone,

I have been running this hack for a long time with no problems, however after upgrading to vB 3.6.8, and not keeping a copy of my old postbit templates, The little donor icon no longer shows up for anyone in there postbit.

also, the user CP no longer has the display donor status show off / on option.

Other then that, the hack still works. I tried to re-install the plugin, however this did not restore those two items.

Does anyone have the code that needs to be re inserted into the postbit / postbit legacy templates?

and does anyone know what I need to do to restore the user CP show donor status?

thanks for the help.

[sinisterpain]

Originally Posted by scan-pa

Hi everyone,

I have been running this hack for a long time with no problems, however after upgrading to vB 3.6.8, and not keeping a copy of my old postbit templates, The little donor icon no longer shows up for anyone in there postbit.

also, the user CP no longer has the display donor status show off / on option.


Other then that, the hack still works. I tried to re-install the plugin, however this did not restore those two items.

Does anyone have the code that needs to be re inserted into the postbit / postbit legacy templates?

and does anyone know what I need to do to restore the user CP show donor status?


thanks for the help.

In Template modifyoptions
FIND

<if condition="$show['reputationoption']">

ABOVE that ADD

<!-- DONATIONS -->
<fieldset class="fieldset">
	<legend><label for="cb_showdonor">My Donor Status</label></legend>
	<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="$stylevar[formspacer]" border="0" width="100%">
	<tr>
		<td>Shall We Show Your Donor Status To The Public?</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td><label for="cb_showdonor"><input type="checkbox" name="showdonor" value="1" id="cb_showdonor" $checked[showdonor] />Show My Donor Status To The Public</label></td>
	</tr>
	</table>
</fieldset>
<!-- END DONATIONS -->

In Template postbit and postbit_legacy
FIND

$post[yahooicon]</div>

BELOW that ADD

<!-- DONATIONS -->
<if condition="$post['donor'] AND $post['showdonor']"><div><a href="$vboptions[bburl]/donate.php"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/donate_donor.gif" border="0" alt="Donor" /></a></div></if>
<!-- END DONATIONS -->

In Template MEMBERINFO
FIND

<td class="smallfont" valign="bottom" align="$stylevar[right]">

BELOW that ADD

<!-- DONATIONS -->
<if condition="$userinfo['donor'] AND $userinfo['showdonor'] == '1'"><a href="$vboptions[bburl]/donate.php"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/donate_donor.gif" border="0" alt="Donor" /></a></if>
<!-- END DONATIONS -->

[scan-pa]

Thank You very much. That restored everything.

[sinisterpain]

Your welcome, but you should never quote the code as it allows non members to see it.

[lazydesis]

Originally Posted by sinisterpain

Ok guys for those of you that have been having issues with installing this mod on 3.6.2 vba 2.2.1:

I so far have got it working from a clean install, also using the vBA module on my home page. The supplied installer creates a phrasetypeid SQL error when you use the supplied installer. I used a XML file I had downloaded not sure who wrote it, and I take no credit for it. I think it was from the original hack not sure. In the zip file there is no name so I do not know who created it, but it installs perfectly at least for me it did.
Proceedure I followed is as follows:
1. Upload the files to your webserver as described by the orig installation instructions.
2. Go to your Plugin&Products in Admin cp =>Manage products=>Add/Import Product. Install the attached XML file. This will add the phrases,templates ect... "Do not use the supplied installer, donationtions_install.php". The XML file will install everything required.
3. If all went ok you should have the paypal donations added to your Admin cp. Just continue with original instructions

Ok missed the thread above the origination of the file is from Andreas https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...t=91567&page=8
Sorry guys I uploaded my edited XML with phrase changes I made the attached file is now the original sorry for that.

This post must be merged into the first post to help all the users of 3.6

it took me quite some time to find this

thanx a lot dude for this excellent hack .. if i make a lof of money from donations i will surely send some towards ur way

[tbrown7552]

so ppl dont haft to look for it. the Product install is here.
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=119

Im having some issues with the images not showing up like the donate button and the verified seal. any ideas?