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

[pbmansion]

Database error in vBulletin 3.6.1:

Invalid SQL:
INSERT INTO phrase (`phraseid`, `languageid`, `varname`, `text`, `phrasetypeid`) VALUES ('', '-1', 'settinggroup_donations', 'PayPal Donations', '5000');

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'phrasetypeid' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054
Date : Monday, October 9th 2006 @ 05:07:49 PM
Script : http://www.*********.com/forums/admi...php?do=install
Referrer : http://www.*********.com/forums/admi...php?do=install
IP Address : ***********
Username : *******
Classname : *********'



Does anyone know why this is happening. Please pm me!

[pbmansion]

after I installed it I got the error and under my admin panel I have most of the options that the mod offers but nothing in the products category for the mod. Any thoughts?

[Sanctu]

Hi there. I'm running VB 3.5.4 and I have the mod running correctly thanks to the abundance of information in this thread. There is one thing that I'm having difficulty with, though. This is an issue with the VBAdvanced addon block, not the core mod for VB.

I can't seem to figure out how to get the "List of Recent/Top Donors" section to display names of people who I manually add. Is there a way to do this?

Example: I cannot donate to myself, but I would like my community to know that I am participating as well. So I manually add in my own donation. I update the goal and the progress bar updates accordingly. However, my name does not show up in the list below where it says "Our Last Donators".

This is only a problem with the VBA block, as my name displays fine within the actual mod itself when you click "View All Donors"

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you again

[TheHeartSmasher]

Originally Posted by Andreas

As this was apparently released under GPL, I've repackaged it as a Product for those interested.

To install it this way, upload the Files from the Attached ZIP, import the Product XML and make the Template Edits.
I left the original HTML File for reference, so don't wonder that it mentions Files that do not exist, File Edits (no File Edits are required), etc.

Thank you

[zendiver]

Originally Posted by GearTripper

i'm not sure of any problem involving users avatars. i don't see how they would be related.

SOme of the avatars show up....and some of them show the 'No Avatar' pic. Everyone that has donated has an avatar in the forums, but only 2 show their avatars in the donations.

[zendiver]

I think I have located the issue but have no clue how to fix it. It has to do with the vB code on how it brings in custom avatars.

In the alldonors.php file, part of the code says the following:

	$avatar_row = $vbulletin->db->query_first("SELECT user.showdonor, user.username, user.avatarid, user.avatarrevision, avatar.avatarpath, NOT ISNULL(customavatar.filedata) AS hascustomavatar, customavatar.dateline AS avatardateline
																			FROM ".TABLE_PREFIX."user AS user
																			LEFT JOIN ".TABLE_PREFIX."avatar AS avatar ON(avatar.avatarid = user.avatarid)
																			LEFT JOIN ".TABLE_PREFIX."customavatar AS customavatar ON(customavatar.userid = user.userid)
																			WHERE user.userid = '".$row['userid']."'");

What is bolded calls reference to the table 'customavatar' and the field 'filedata'

This particular field uses the type of MEDIUMBLOB with attributes - binary and NULL set to YES as default (don't know why but maybe someone with more experience can explain this one).
All of the avatars that are actually displayed on the ALL DONORS page, have a filedata field setting of '[BLOB - (file size of image) KB]'. All the ones that are NOT displayed, the filedata field has this setting: [BLOB - NULL].

Any thoughts to those that are more 'code savy' than I am?

Thanks for your time.

[Hornstar]

Under We are PayPal Verified! I am wanting the same kind of box as the top donors instead I want this one to be Latest donors, and have the same functionality as to set how many etc.

How Would I do this.

Or would someone be able to do this, im sure others would love it as well.

Thanks.

[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.

[pbmansion]

I installed the normal way and I got the error I posted above. I then took the .xml file you attached to your post and I uploaded that to my server. It said everything went well and good. I don't know if everything went well though because after enabling everything in the donor settings the donor link doesn't show up in the navbar. I also don't know if my install files of my old install (the one that gave me the error) were deleted. I know that the old intaller deleted some install files and those still might be on my server. I need help with all this stuff guys. Please help!

[pbmansion]

could I have unloaded the files onto my server wrong? I need someone to help me out.

aim: perrier at pbm
email: jestersgreatest@gmail.com