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PayPal Donations For vBulletin 3.5.0 · **Released**: 07-02-2005

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

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.
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.
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.
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.
You will need to input your Paypal Account Email into the settings
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
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

evesve · #**1272** 12-03-2006, 01:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cloudrunner

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

Thats very good!
This is one of the most important Hack so I hope someone will take over!
Hurry up, Billspaintball!
And good luck with what you are doing, Cloudrunner!

smoknz28 · #**1273** 12-03-2006, 05:43 PM

Got this up and running on vB 3.6.3 with the help of reading numerous posts.. :glasses:

However, not sure if it's set up properly because it seems a bit confusing to use how I have it setup.

When you go to my PayPal Donation's page, it appears that users have to click on the PayPal logo in order to be taken to PayPal. There's no instructions that the users needs to do that. Am I missing something here gang?

When going here --> http://www.9thsf-igc.com/forum/donate.php it looks so much easier to make a donation.

Thank you to all of you who made this hack happen for us 3.6.x users....

Mark

sinisterpain · #**1274** 12-03-2006, 07:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by smoknz28

Got this up and running on vB 3.6.3 with the help of reading numerous posts.. :glasses:

However, not sure if it's set up properly because it seems a bit confusing to use how I have it setup.

When you go to my PayPal Donation's page, it appears that users have to click on the PayPal logo in order to be taken to PayPal. There's no instructions that the users needs to do that. Am I missing something here gang?

When going here --> http://www.9thsf-igc.com/forum/donate.php it looks so much easier to make a donation.

Thank you to all of you who made this hack happen for us 3.6.x users....

Mark

Clicking your link takes me to a message about not having donated in 1 month. You appear to have another hack integrated in the paypal hack. Also did you install the paypal easy donate? Something is not right unless you edited, installed another hack conflicting with it or you did not set it up in the admin CP. You must set your preferences in paypal donations through the admin CP.
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
8. You must create a goal(s), then create a button(s) and point your button(s) to the goal(s).

smoknz28 · #**1275** 12-03-2006, 08:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sinisterpain

Clicking your link takes me to a message about not having donated in 1 month. You appear to have another hack integrated in the paypal hack. Also did you install the paypal easy donate? Something is not right unless you edited, installed another hack conflicting with it or you did not set it up in the admin CP. You must set your preferences in paypal donations through the admin CP.

Yes, I have PayPal Easy Donate installed and running at the time through the link provided on my forums. I've not yet set up on my navbar link for this hack as I want to make sure it's running correctly before I have it linkable by users.

Quote:

Originally Posted by sinisterpain

1. You must make sure that you have either a Business or Premiere account with Paypal.

I have a Premiere Acount

Quote:

Originally Posted by sinisterpain

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.

K, this I did not have previously set up. I went into my profile and turned it on without using a url.

Quote:

Originally Posted by sinisterpain

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.

I installed this on vB 3.6.3 and used the information that Andreas provided and ensured I followed his directions.

Quote:

Originally Posted by sinisterpain

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.

I don't know enough about the PayPal's Sandbox, but I did register for an account with it. I've got more reading I guess to do on that portion....

Quote:

Originally Posted by sinisterpain

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

Yes, this was all done on initial install.

Quote:

Originally Posted by sinisterpain

8. You must create a goal(s), then create a button(s) and point your button(s) to the goal(s).

This I didn't do on initial install, but what if I don't want to use 'goals'? According to your sentence you are saying that I must. Please let me know...

Thank you so much for an in depth reply about this. Very kind of you to take that kind of time out to help a stranger.

sinisterpain · #**1276** 12-03-2006, 11:04 PM

Quote:

This I didn't do on initial install, but what if I don't want to use 'goals'? According to your sentence you are saying that I must. Please let me know...

Thank you so much for an in depth reply about this. Very kind of you to take that kind of time out to help a stranger.

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No you do not need to use a goal should you not wish. But you do need to create a donation button.

smoknz28 · #**1277** 12-03-2006, 11:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sinisterpain

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But you do need to create a donation button.

I'll have to do some searching around out there for an already produced PayPal button.

However, once I have a PayPal Donation button, where am I to put this (template)?

Thanks

sinisterpain · #**1278** 12-04-2006, 12:49 AM

Quote:

I'll have to do some searching around out there for an already produced PayPal button.

However, once I have a PayPal Donation button, where am I to put this (template)?

Thanks

The button will be like the one I have on my site. If you wish to use another you can go to your paypal account and go to Merchant services then donations creat a button with the one you wish.

You will need to edit the donation_bits template under paypal donations templates (Admin Cp=>styles&templates=>style manager=>PaypalDonation Templates=>donation_bits).
find:

Code:

<if condition="$vboptions['ipn_test'] == 1">
<form name="donate" action="https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
			<else />
<form name="donate" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
				</if>
<input type="hidden" name="notify_url" value="$vboptions[notify_url]">
<input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/x-click-butcc-donate.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure">

change:

Code:

<input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/x-click-butcc-donate.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!">

to the new code you get from the paypal script

puregraf · #**1279** 12-04-2006, 10:17 PM

i have v3.5.4 did everything, only thing is the donate button is not showing!! help!!!

Trana · #**1280** 12-04-2006, 10:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by puregraf

i have v3.5.4 did everything, only thing is the donate button is not showing!! help!!!

Did you do a search of this thread? The answer has been posted here about 10 times now.

puregraf · #**1281** 12-04-2006, 10:34 PM

i already did this

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?><navgroups product="vbulletin">

and this

In your admincp, there are two options:

Set donations to test only? (set to no)
Donations System Active? (set to yes)

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