Paypal Donation by a user puts them in an additional usergroup that see's less ads?

[KipLarson]

It would be sweet if you could have a Paypal Donation (say a $5 minimum) by a user that would put them in an additional usergroup that see's less ads on the site and is given like a "Site Supporter" in a custom profile spot. Or their name is italicized or something. Is this possible or has it already been done?

Thanks in advance. I think it'd be a great hack to be done.

[paul41598]

or you could just use subscriptions, move them to the usergroup and use some conditionals

[bashy]

This is exactly what i have done Paul and it works very well, certainly dont need a hack for this, This is for my VIP's

[KipLarson]

Originally Posted by bashy

This is exactly what i have done Paul and it works very well, certainly dont need a hack for this, This is for my VIP's

Could you give me an example of how you've done this? Like how does it automatically take into account the user name through paypal? Or is that the subscriptions thing you're referring to?

Do subscriptions exist on 3.5x? I've never tried them. (Would it be also possible to change their user titles i.e. like add bold etc via a secondary usergroup and not a primary?)

Thanks for the ideas so far.

Originally Posted by paul41598

or you could just use subscriptions, move them to the usergroup and use some conditionals

EDIT: Paul, I didn't see that you actually made a hack like this. Isn't this hack that you made do what I was asking? (or does it not work in 3.5x so that's why you didn't link to it?)

Thanks in advance

[paul41598]

all my hack does is display the latest paid subscribers on forumhome. You need to first setup subscriptions on ur forums. Then setup usergroup permissions, etc allow them to change their titles, etc.

[KipLarson]

Originally Posted by paul41598

all my hack does is display the latest paid subscribers on forumhome. You need to first setup subscriptions on ur forums. Then setup usergroup permissions, etc allow them to change their titles, etc.

Ohhhh lol. Ok, I get it now. Thanks for the tips then. I'm going to look into figuring this out with conditionals etc.

So there is a built in option to set up paypal subscriptions (donations) within vBulletin that all I need to do is customize and add conditionals for the italic username etc?