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

[da420]

Then you either did not do the template edits, or upload the photo...

[puregraf]

do you have a screen shot of what this icon looks like and where it appears so i can get an idea of where to look? ill go over the templete edits to see if i missed any.

edit: cant seem to find what template i did not edit, it seems i have followed all directions and edited all required templates. checked images, all uploaded , theirs no Xed out image displayed, so i dont think its an image not being uploaded problem.

thanks

p.s. am i supposed to delete the donations_install folder after im done installing? i never deleted it and im wondering if i should.

Also, I have vbulletin, photopost and vba intergrated, maybe that is why? What template do I need to edit and what code do I need to add for the DONER image button to show under the usersname (or wherever its supposed to show) onevery post the user makes such as the vbulletin forum posts or maybe the photopost gallery posts?

Thank You!!

[sinisterpain]

Originally Posted by puregraf

do you have a screen shot of what this icon looks like and where it appears so i can get an idea of where to look? ill go over the templete edits to see if i missed any.


edit: cant seem to find what template i did not edit, it seems i have followed all directions and edited all required templates. checked images, all uploaded , theirs no Xed out image displayed, so i dont think its an image not being uploaded problem.

thanks

p.s. am i supposed to delete the donations_install folder after im done installing? i never deleted it and im wondering if i should.

Also, I have vbulletin, photopost and vba intergrated, maybe that is why? What template do I need to edit and what code do I need to add for the DONER image button to show under the usersname (or wherever its supposed to show) onevery post the user makes such as the vbulletin forum posts or maybe the photopost gallery posts?

Thank You!!

First, the donor buton shows if you select it to show. If you look in your usercp you should see a block to check to show the doner button, second yes you do not need the install folder

[puregraf]

Originally Posted by sinisterpain

First, the donor buton shows if you select it to show. If you look in your usercp you should see a block to check to show the doner button, second yes you do not need the install folder

i dont see a block to check to show the doner button. this is all that i have:


Set Donations to Test Only!
If set to yes then we will be playing in the PayPal Sandbox for testing purposes, if set to no, we will be live and running on the actual PayPal system. Yes No
Your Currency
Set to one of the following three letter country codes for your currency that you accept paypal payments in:
United States Dollar
Australian Dollar
Canadian Dollar
European Union (Euro)
Great Britain Pound Sterling
Japanese Yen USD
AUD
CAD
EUR
GBP
JPY

Is The Donations System Active?
Is the donations system active?
This will activate or deactivate the link in your navbar Yes No
Donations Inactive Explanation
Place your reasons for the donations being inactive here. The Donations are currently unavailable. We apologize for any inconvenience. Please check back later.
Increase Size Decrease Size
Show Donation Goals?
Shall we show your Donation Goals on your Donations page? Yes No
Show Cumulative Total?
Should we show your Cumulative Total in the Goals Block? Yes No
Show The PayPal Verification Seal?
Should we show the PayPal Verification Seal on your donations page? Yes No
Show Donors?
Shall we show your donors on your Donations Page? Yes No
Show Top Donors, or Last Donors?
Choose "yes" to use Top Donors on your site donors listing, or "no" to use Last Donors. Yes No
How Many Donors To Show On Donations Page
How many Top Donors should we show on your Donations page?
This is only in effect if the above option is selected "yes".
Non-Profit Registered?
Are you registered as a Non-profit Organization, making all donations tax-deductible for the donor? Yes No
Tax-ID
If you are non-profit registered, enter your Tax-ID here for your donors to use to claim their deduction.
Your PayPal Email
This is used to provide the script with the correct email for payments and verification
Full Donation URL
Full URL Location of your donate.php file:
i.e. http://www.yourdomain.com/forum/donate.php
Notification URL
Place the full URL to your ppverify.php file:
i.e. http://www.yourdomain.com/forum/ppverify.php
Show Currency Selector?
Should we show the currency selector? This does NOT automatically change the amount, it stays the same for all currencies, be sure you want to give user this option before you select yes. Yes No
Start Date For Your Donations
Enter a start date (no required standard for input, can be anything) here.
vBadvanced Percent Bar Border Color
Hex color codes only, DO NOT USE A # SIGN!
vBadvanced Percent Bar Fill Color
Hex color codes only, DO NOT USE A # SIGN!
vBadvanced Percent Bar Background Color
Hex color codes only, DO NOT USE A # SIGN!
vBadvanced Percent Bar Width
This number will determine how wide your percentage bar in the module will be. (size is in pixels)
vBadvanced Percent Bar Height

[sinisterpain]

In your usercp on your website, members have to select this in their profiles to show the donor banner not admincp.

[puregraf]

Originally Posted by sinisterpain

In your usercp on your website, members have to select this in their profiles to show the donor banner not admincp.

THANK YOU!

[lifesourcerec]

This still works with 3.6.x, but I'm losing data little by little from the donation list. Usernames keep disappearing.

[Stifler]

Is there a way to show/hide content from donators.. since there isnt a hack to put em in a specific usergroup is there an <if condition> check i can do to hide and show them ads and whatnot?

[sinisterpain]

Originally Posted by lifesourcerec

This still works with 3.6.x, but I'm losing data little by little from the donation list. Usernames keep disappearing.

Not sure why you would lose data check your admincp and look at valid transactions are thoses members who donated there?

[sinisterpain]

Originally Posted by Stifler

Is there a way to show/hide content from donators.. since there isnt a hack to put em in a specific usergroup is there an <if condition> check i can do to hide and show them ads and whatnot?

Im sure there you could but you would have to do some re-write of the code.
If some one made a donation I do not know why you would want to throw ads at them since they should be considered premium members with special forum rights, just my opinion.