I can't get this to work. In version 1.8 nothing happens when I hit my forum 'register an account with us' button so I overwrote 1.8 with 1.6 and hitting the the 'register an account with us' link now presents the user with the two options: paid account and free account.
The free account route works perfectly and the user is forwarded to the standard registration page.
The paid account option is presented initially as a currency selector (I have one subscription but with choice of two currencies) so the user selects one of the currencies and hits the button to continue. He then sees your error #2245760575 which seems a little unfair as the user never actually got that far It's like a step has been missed out.
On other forums which have your mod installed the user gets the two options and if he picks the paid option he is forwarded to a new page from where he is transferred to Paypal. On mine step 2 is presented straight away.
Any tips? I've uninstalled for now but would love to get the mod working. I'm on vb 4.1.4 by the way
What's to stop a spam company from adjusting the bot to pay and get refunded? Or human spammers?
Excellent questions! What stops the human spammer and adjusted bots are Transaction ID's! You can pocket the fee from the spammers, contact the payment processor [who will shut down the buyer], and be free of spamming by that group.
Thing is, when a spammer's buyer account is shut down, they are not only prevented from spamming you in the future, but they are also prevented from spamming other users of the paid registration mod. It creates a sort of decentralized peer-to-peer anti-spam network; free accounts can be created from thin air infinitely, but buyer accounts with currency cannot.
Paypal watches account activity very closely for stuff like this and usually takes care of it before it gets out of control, so there is an added benefit to using them.
Until we get to the point where bots are coded to pay for spamming, how many companies give spam laymen direct access to their funds?
No promises, but if I can, this will take us straight to 2.0.
Thanks for your time on this to create a patch for me.... :up:
Unfortunately, I think that skill set is above my pay grade in being able to handle without messing up my site, so I'll wait to go live until 2.0 to see if it's built in.
Appreciate your efforts ...
Regards,
Doug
Edit: Is there a way of adding some descriptive text area to the "free" sign up section?
I can't get this to work. In version 1.8 nothing happens when I hit my forum 'register an account with us' button so I overwrote 1.8 with 1.6 and hitting the the 'register an account with us' link now presents the user with the two options: paid account and free account.
The free account route works perfectly and the user is forwarded to the standard registration page.
The paid account option is presented initially as a currency selector (I have one subscription but with choice of two currencies) so the user selects one of the currencies and hits the button to continue. He then sees your error #2245760575 which seems a little unfair as the user never actually got that far It's like a step has been missed out.
On other forums which have your mod installed the user gets the two options and if he picks the paid option he is forwarded to a new page from where he is transferred to Paypal. On mine step 2 is presented straight away.
Any tips? I've uninstalled for now but would love to get the mod working. I'm on vb 4.1.4 by the way
Error 2245760575 means your username maximum length is less than the default of 25. Next time be sure to check the FAQ!
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Originally Posted by BadgerDog
Thanks for your time on this to create a patch for me.... :up:
Unfortunately, I think that skill set is above my pay grade in being able to handle without messing up my site, so I'll wait to go live until 2.0 to see if it's built in.
Appreciate your efforts ...
Regards,
Doug
Edit: Is there a way of adding some descriptive text area to the "free" sign up section?
Looks like I can't use a template parser anyway because of complications.
The JS fix will be bundled in the next version and it will simply be wrapping the contents in the right class.
Error 2245760575 means your username maximum length is less than the default of 25. Next time be sure to check the FAQ!
Yes, I read the FAQ prior to installing. I followed your installation instructions to the letter - at least six times.
Perhaps instead of a weak attempt at humour:
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Originally Posted by stained
...The paid account option is presented initially as a currency selector (I have one subscription but with choice of two currencies) so the user selects one of the currencies and hits the button to continue. He then sees your error #2245760575 which seems a little unfair as the user never actually got that far
I should have said: 'why does the mod tell the user that his user name is too short when he never actually entered a user name?'
Yes there is, it requires a manual edit of the lancerforhire_paid_registration_subscription template.
Thanks ...
I had a look and couldn't readily see where I would do that, but just being an old Fortran programmer out of the 60's, I'm not that familiar with the more modern HTML coding, so perhaps I'll wait until mod is in production and seek some contract customization at that point ... :up:
In the interim, I just sent the author a PayPal donation to encourage his on-going efforts ...
Regards,
Doug
ps: Edit: Why does the username field need to be changed to 30 characters? We had reduced ours to 15 as it takes up a lot of postbit space.
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06-15-2011, 07:38 PM
It's like a step has been missed out.
We had reduced ours to 15 as it takes up a lot of postbit space.
