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Reoccurring Paypal Subscriptions · **Released**: 05-06-2004

What this does (added in first post)

With the current vbulletin subscription set up, it only charges your members one time. So if you have a pay based site, or forum area they have to keep subscribing, and causing them to waste time and effort (and maybe you lose money)

What this does, is give you the option if you want one time payment (standard vb) or reoccurring payment.

When you choose reoccurring the script has them sign up for a reoccurring payment, as paypal sends you confirmation each time you get a subscription payment, your system will now update their access time.

This will save your members from having to resign up all the time and hopefully save you some money

For instance, say you have a paying member?s only area, and you want them to have to pay $10 a month.

With this you can charge per month and it handles all the charges, and every month they send another payment automatically your script gets updated and sets their new expiration.

This has been asked for many times and IMO should have been in to begin with.

Enjoy and I will help as I can.

Note from the new supporter: This hack is now being actively supported again. I have updated the install instructions to work for version 3.0.7, and we can now begin to work out any existing bugs. This code is still raw and has not been tested extensively due to the difficult nature of testing paypal transactions.

amykhar · #**162** 03-21-2005, 01:58 AM

Actually, you can still show the rank if you use a template conditional. Do a check for is_member_of and display the titles based on that.

Illuvatar · #**163** 03-21-2005, 02:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by amykhar

Actually, you can still show the rank if you use a template conditional. Do a check for is_member_of and display the titles based on that.

Ya know....that's what I've been thinking! It has to be a real simple fix to pick up the secondaries, and I have even seen a post here before that it would be a simple if-then-else condition.

Thing is....I may be able to edit code and get a hack to work, but a coder I am not. lol

You don't suppose Ole Illu could trouble you for another bit of a teeny hack would ya? Just give me the code and tell me where to put it and I will good as gold! Oh...there are actually tons of folks here that would be ever so gratefull to you as well!

cgjackson2001 · #**164** 03-21-2005, 02:48 PM

Hi,

I cant find this line of text in the includes/functions_subscriptions.php

Code:

function construct_payment($method, $cost, $currency, $subscriptionid, $title, $userinfo)
{
	global $vboptions;

Can someone help me to find it, i'm using the latest version 3.07.

Thanks,
Chris

Marco van Herwaarden · #**165** 03-21-2005, 03:12 PM

You will find it on line:

Code:

thenewuser · #**166** 03-21-2005, 10:33 PM

Hello, very nice program and I thank you. I believe I installed it correctly and made the 1 line of code change that was needed for the new VB.

The problem I am having here is:

people are paying paypal, and not showing up as subscribed so right now I'm having to manually add 10-100 people a day which is killing me.

I have a group set up and everything, they just don't seem to be added to be able to view the forums. but when I use your "add user" feature then they can view the forums.

So for some reason the script is not adding them to the subscription group.

Any thoughts?

amykhar · #**167** 03-21-2005, 11:37 PM

It's more than one line in the new VB, and I saw the same problem today on my own site. Testing takes a while on these things because I have to wait for payments to trickle in. I'm going to look into it tomorrow.

thenewuser · #**168** 03-21-2005, 11:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by amykhar

It's more than one line in the new VB, and I saw the same problem today on my own site. Testing takes a while on these things because I have to wait for payments to trickle in. I'm going to look into it tomorrow.

Could you point me in the right direction?

amykhar · #**169** 03-22-2005, 12:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by thenewuser

Could you point me in the right direction?

I have the correct replacement code in the install file. Several of the hidden variables changed in the newer version of vbulletin. I incorporated them into the hack, but haven't had time to really go over them. Also, I believe some things have changed on the paypal side since this hack was written. I need to wait until tomorrow when my brain is a little less groggy and dive into it in detail.

amykhar · #**170** 03-23-2005, 03:55 PM

OK. I've had some time to poke around and found the one line of code that was making the subscriptions not set up properly.

Remove this line from your functions_subscriptions.php

Code:

			<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"ammount\" value=\"$cost\" />

amykhar · #**171** 03-23-2005, 04:12 PM

OK. Let's try this code to handle the emails going out that shouldn't be:

in your includes/cron/subscriptions.php file
Find:

Code:

user.languageid

Add after:

Code:

,subscription. reoccur

Find:

Code:

LEFT JOIN " . TABLE_PREFIX . "user AS user ON (user.userid = subscriptionlog.userid)

Add After:

Code:

LEFT JOIN " . TABLE_PREFIX . "subscription AS subscription ON (subscription.subscriptionid = subscriptionlog.subscriptionid)

Find:

Code:

	vbmail_start();

Add Above:

Code:

   if (!$subscriptions_reminder[reoccur]){

Find:

Code:

vbmail_end();

Add After:

Code:

I have not updated the install instructions yet because this code has not been thoroughly tested yet. Let me know how it works for you, please.

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