PayPal Donations (Resurrected) for vB 3.0.7

[Cloudrunner]

Originally Posted by Trana

Patience is a virtue for those who like the status quo.

We're excited about this well needed hack, can you blame us?

Thanks again.

not really...lol

I'm stuck on the currency selector code at the moment, but hope to have the problem resolved tomorrow...

edit: I've finished the currency selector. It now runs a daily cron to update the exchange rates automatically to today's exchange rates, and then it converts the donation price to the user's selected currency automatically so that the user can pay in their currency and you will still get the amount you request in your currency.

Just to show that I'm not totally slacking off (this has become my one and only thing to work on over the last week or so...bear with me..), here's another screeny...

Been working on the AdminCP interface...

This is the front page of the donations admin...of course I am open to suggestions...

[Snake]

Excellent. What a good news for me today. Keep it up man.

[mcyates]

yes this is fantastic, hurry up though lol!!

[Mickie D]

very nice hack

does this use CURL ?

and when its finished will it have the auto add a gif or something to the users postbit ?

how will it intergrate into the members that already have donated via subscriptions ??

see i have a specific usergroup that is called contributed and i use template conditionals to show a donated gif for members (post bit) maybe you could use the same instead of it being complicated just add a conditional to your install txt and make your script once VEREFIED is passed to the script the script will add a user secondery group to a contributed/donated usergroup (tounge twisted sorry).

but i like this alot i can keep track of my donations alot better than browseing paypal all the time and checking emails against users


Regards
Mickie D

[Cloudrunner]

Originally Posted by mcyates

yes this is fantastic, hurry up though lol!!

I'm going as fast as I can on it

Originally Posted by Mickie D

very nice hack

Thank you, but it's still a work in progress, that's why I haven't yet released it.

Originally Posted by Mickie D

does this use CURL?

No need for CURL, just a simple fgets(); and regexp explode to get the daily exchange quotes, and the system itself is using standard $_POST variables bounced between your server and PayPal's verification server to not only give notification, but to make sure that now spoofing is being done from the outside the servers (i.e. someone tries to inject variables to the program, but paypal's server will see this as erroneous data, and give a response of invalid...thus protecting you from possible hack attempts).

Originally Posted by Mickie D

and when its finished will it have the auto add a gif or something to the users postbit?

The current plan is to have the users be marked as a contributor, and based on that setting have the memberlist, postbit, and profile show that they have contributed, I haven't quite figured out how I want to implement this yet, but I am working on that side of the house as soon as I finish with the admin panel.

Originally Posted by Mickie D

how will it intergrate into the members that already have donated via subscriptions?

Unfortunately, integrating it with previously subscribed purchases will make it very difficult to setup to do that automatically since historical transactions are difficult to code for on an individual basis from PayPal. So I have added the ability to mark a member as a contributor without the need for a transaction, all you have to do is input their username, and total donations, the system will do the rest.

Originally Posted by Mickie D

see i have a specific usergroup that is called contributed and i use template conditionals to show a donated gif for members (post bit) maybe you could use the same instead of it being complicated just add a conditional to your install txt and make your script once VEREFIED is passed to the script the script will add a user secondery group to a contributed/donated usergroup (tounge twisted sorry).

That would require an extra step on the part of the admin in creating a secondary usergroup to do this, and I'm trying to keep extraneous code modifications, and side-bar database INSERTS down to a minimum, so using the current system it only requires that a user be "marked".

Originally Posted by Mickie D

But i like this alot i can keep track of my donations alot better than browseing paypal all the time and checking emails against users.

The entire reason I'm bringing this back up folks

)O( Cloudrunner )O(

[artonex]

hey Cloudrunner i cant wait for the release of this, hope it comes soon

[Cloudrunner]

Originally Posted by TheWebJunkie

hey Cloudrunner i cant wait for the release of this, hope it comes soon

Alright, as of now we are in Alpha Final. As long as no bugs raise their ugly heads we'll be going Beta by Friday.

[w00tworld]

Now this looks like the sort of modification I have been seeking, I hope all gos well with your testing Cloudrunner and look forward to making use it

[dsboyce8624]

As a tester of this, I'd just like to say that CR is working very hard, and it looks like things are going very well.

Now if I only had people interested in donating to my site!!!!

:banana:

[jugo]

Dude...you are gonna make ALOT of people very happy.

WOW!!!