PayPal Donations For vBulletin 3.5.0

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:

• 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

[Forsak3n1]

Originally Posted by djmac

I can. You will find it in the /admincp/donation_install/donation_phrases.php

Around line 15

Regards
Don

Thanks. :up:

[Rich]

Hello,

Stop back peddling, you screwed up and you know it. Like I said before you should have just pointed us to it and step back. You know what the real problem is? People who forget where they came from. Arrogance is like cheap clothes, they never fit right.

Regards
Don

Why don't you take the time to run a search and read all of my posts. I am not a coder. (Look under my name, it says "member", just like you.) I have however helped where I could.

The real problem has nothing to do with people forgetting where they came from. It has to do with people like you that are too lazy to go through a thread. You have all of 20 posts on this site and you already expect people to hold your hand and guide you.I answered this question in the past. I posted that its answer was in the reading. Where was your answer? Oh, thats right....you didn't take the time to read through the thread to find it. You wanted me or someone else to hold your hand and bring you to the answer.

Get used to how this site works. People help when they can. They won't do it all for you though. Search is your friend. If you plan on asking the same questions over and over again on this site when installing the various mods, you are going to find that most people are going to tell you the same thing. "Did you read through the thread? This has been answered several times."

Keep this in mind Don, this site doesn't need you,you need it. If you didn't need this site, you wouldn't be here using other peoples mods. You would be writing your own for what you need.

As all of my previous posts show, I am normally not like this. But when some newbie comes in and expects everyone to hold their hand, it gets under my skin. Do like the rest of us do and READ the thread. I READ the thread when I first installed this and that is how I found the answer. What makes you think everyone owes you some sort of privalege of holding your hand and leading you to it?

[djmac]

Originally Posted by iguanairs

Hello,


Why don't you take the time to run a search and read all of my posts. I am not a coder. (Look under my name, it says "member", just like you.) I have however helped where I could.

The real problem has nothing to do with people forgetting where they came from. It has to do with people like you that are too lazy to go through a thread. You have all of 20 posts on this site and you already expect people to hold your hand and guide you.I answered this question in the past. I posted that its answer was in the reading. Where was your answer? Oh, thats right....you didn't take the time to read through the thread to find it. You wanted me or someone else to hold your hand and bring you to the answer.

Get used to how this site works. People help when they can. They won't do it all for you though. Search is your friend. If you plan on asking the same questions over and over again on this site when installing the various mods, you are going to find that most people are going to tell you the same thing. "Did you read through the thread? This has been answered several times."

Keep this in mind Don, this site doesn't need you,you need it. If you didn't need this site, you wouldn't be here using other peoples mods. You would be writing your own for what you need.

As all of my previous posts show, I am normally not like this. But when some newbie comes in and expects everyone to hold their hand, it gets under my skin. Do like the rest of us do and READ the thread. I READ the thread when I first installed this and that is how I found the answer. What makes you think everyone owes you some sort of privalege of holding your hand and leading you to it?

Are you finished?

Don

[Rukas]

I got the Admin option under vBulletin Options but that only lets me turn it on or off, how do I actually set goals and donation sizes and shit like that? I dont see an actual Donation admin panel in admin CP.

[Rukas]

Originally Posted by Rukas

I got the Admin option under vBulletin Options but that only lets me turn it on or off, how do I actually set goals and donation sizes and shit like that? I dont see an actual Donation admin panel in admin CP.

OK I fixed it, the xml file was wrong.

Head to /forum/includes/xml and edit cpnav_paypal_donations.xml

Find:

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

Replace with:

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

I still cant work out how to get the vBadvanced module to work though.

[bubba1977]

Originally Posted by Rukas

OK I fixed it, the xml file was wrong.

Head to /forum/includes/xml and edit cpnav_paypal_donations.xml

Find:

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

Replace with:

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

I still cant work out how to get the vBadvanced module to work though.

First of all this is a brilliant hack, installed well with no problems.

However i get the same problem in control panel and have no menu to change the goals and stuff like that.

Just noticed when doin this edit that your replacing code for identical code..... is that right?

[bubba1977]

its ok, i did the edit and it worked.. even tho the code edit is the same.

oh well.. thanks for the hack.

[The Realist]

installed using 3.5.0 gold.

In admincp>paypal donations>view all invalid transactions it says: Tansaction from NOT Transactions from.

Also I have one invalid transaction but no text is showing only the dot you tick and when I do tick that and click View Transaction it brings be back to the same page?

Any ideas how I can remove this invalid transaction from the database?

Laters

[Rabbitoh Warren]

Is there a vBadvanced module available for this yet and if so where can I find it?

TIA.

[cashpath]

My cpnav paypal donations xml didn't install....

I reran the installer but it still isn't there... is there a manual way to do it?

Thanks