Miscellaneous Hacks - Gift Subscriptions

Looks like there was a huge need for a gift subscription hack, so I created one, attached. It allows users to extend or purchase board subscriptions for other users.

This has been implemented and tested on our boards, but it is in EARLY ALPHA! Please provide me with feedback/questions after you implement it.

Should take about 15 minutes to complete.

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

Let me know how it goes!
~ Jennifer

[Avimelech]

Thanks, good point. Except when I did the search and replace, the code that I found matched exactly what was supposed to be there.

Can you recommend how to handle this? I really want this plugin. Shall I ask the original poster if they have this working still on their forums and using 3.8 now?

[Shamil.]

Originally Posted by Avimelech

Thanks, good point. Except when I did the search and replace, the code that I found matched exactly what was supposed to be there.

Can you recommend how to handle this? I really want this plugin. Shall I ask the original poster if they have this working still on their forums and using 3.8 now?

Yep, that's the cuase of action

[Avimelech]

OK, I confess I rechecked and found a wrong insertion point for the subscription template. It works now, with 3.8.4.

[klaush]

Hi,

can You explain what exactly is to do?

Thanks!

Originally Posted by Avimelech

OK, I confess I rechecked and found a wrong insertion point for the subscription template. It works now, with 3.8.4.

[Martin Kiess]

Hello,

i installed this AddOn in version 3.8.4.

There was 1 thing wrong in the payments.php

do NOT add after:
($hook = vBulletinHook::fetch_hook('paidsub_order_start')) ? eval($hook) : false;

i added it after:
if ($_POST['do'] == 'order')
{

//=== HACK: GIFT SUBSCRIPTIONS ===//
if ($_POST['giftname'] != $vbulletin->userinfo['username'])
{
$goo=$db->query_read_slave("SELECT userid from ". TABLE_PREFIX ."user where username='".$_POST['giftname']."'");

if ($giftee = $db->fetch_array($goo))
{
$subid = $giftee['userid'];
$subusername = $_POST['giftname'];
}
else
{
eval(standard_error(fetch_error('pminvalidrecipien t')));
}
}
else
{
$subid = $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'];
$subusername = $vbulletin->userinfo['username'];
}
//=== HACK: GIFT SUBSCRIPTIONS ===//

Then i modified the template: subscription_payment

locate: <td class="panelsurround" align="center">
<div class="panel">
<div align="$stylevar[left]">

AFTER that, add:
<div class="fieldset">
Subscription for: <strong>$subusername</strong>
</div>

Ok, so it works

Martin

[Avimelech]

Anyone got the updated instructions to get this working for VB4? Many of the code syntax is now changed for the variables manipulated for the GIFTNAME...but I have not learned the new syntax yet.

[Crrrazzzy]

i would also be interested in this for VB4

[sojobo]

I'd love to see this implemented into vB4 too, I don't know why it's not a core feature tbh.

[MrWizard]

My team updated this for 4.0.2

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=237351

Thanks for the original mod jamoss!

[ZERO <ibis>]

Any ideas how to fix it so that "special" names work?

For example: <[X]> will not work as an accepted username.

What do I need to edit in order for this mod to support special characters?

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."'");