Mini Mods - Pay to Register

As my first release, I figured since so many were wanting this I went ahead and re-released it. As with the original, this still only works with Email Confirmation Turned OFF. I will look for a way around this issue in the future.

Pay to Register is only meant for 3.8.x as I have no idea if it will work on earlier versions.

To install:
1. Go to AdminCP -> Plugins & Products -> Manage Products -> Add/Import Product
2. Browse your computer for the xml file you download from this thread
3. Click import
4. Continue reading to check to make sure this mod is pointing to the right location of your payments.php file


For those installing, follow these instructions after importing the product.

1. Go to AdminCP -> Plugins & Products -> Plugin Manager -> to the right of Pay to Register click Edit
2. Check that this line is correct:

PHP Code:

header("Location: /payments.php"); 


3. If that line is not correct then update by removing '/' or adding 'forum/payments.php'.

Any questions please do ask.


NOTE: Those that click install will get priority support over those that do not click install.

[unbri103]

unregistered users can't view the payments.php page. How can I change this. I want unregistered users to be able to buy a normal account, or regular account or an account & vip status but they cannot even see the page since the login gets in the way and redirects saying they must login.

[SamirDarji]

You may be able to do a conditional if clause for that usergroup in one of the templates or php files. I've seen this type of thing done for other plugins/hacks to make exceptions/inclusions for usergroups.

[unbri103]

thanks would you mind showing me what you mean. I'm not too good with coding.

[vitrag24]

I've just installed this mod and tried to register.
I noticed it does nothing except redirectingto subscriptions page of forum after registering.

So user can register without payment and even after registration, he can access wholoe forum as before i installed this mod.

[theksmith]

can you please work on the issue of "this still only works with Email Confirmation Turned OFF" when you have time? i'd really like to use this mod, but it has to work with the email confirmation for my board.

[pharmacist]

thanks man
but how to install merchant account other than paypal

[SamirDarji]

Originally Posted by unbri103

thanks would you mind showing me what you mean. I'm not too good with coding.

I don't have my test 3.8.3 setup in front of me. One other thing I thought about is that you should be able to set permissions for unregistered users so that they can see the payments.php screen.

[ilrglen]

Okay, after I installed this I forgot to change the path to the payments.php on my system. And while I was testing this, of course, I came to my error page because vBulletin couldn't find payments.php in my forum. No big deal, I thought. I'll just go in and make this change and test it again. But then when I went to reregister my same fake member vbulletin said it was already registered and logged in. Which, it turned out, was correct.

So this is where I have a problem/question. Shouldn't the registration of this fake user not have gone through since the payment procedure did not take place and was not completed? I thought this was supposed to make the payment a condition of the registration process... Any help with this?

[SamirDarji]

My guess is because the payments.php file wasn't found, it skipped the payment step and completed registration. Does it work fine now that you've updated the path?

[ilrglen]

Originally Posted by SamirDarji

My guess is because the payments.php file wasn't found, it skipped the payment step and completed registration. Does it work fine now that you've updated the path?

Honestly I figured it wouldn't work but now that you mentioned what the problem might be I retried it. It is redirecting me to the correct payments.php page and once it arrives there if I do nothing, with no payment made yet, and I just click on one of the other links on my site, it takes me straight there and let me in since the registration did go through as I suspected. The new page even had me already logged in and I am free to browse.