Administrative and Maintenance Tools - October 7 2013 PayPal Changes Fix by BOP5

Brought to you by BirdOPrey5 / Qapla.com PayPal Fix

As of October 7, 2013 PayPal will stop using the HTTP 1.0 protocol (that vBulletin uses) when accepting payments. This means anyone who uses PayPal with vBulletin will need up manually edit a file by October 7 or their future payments will stop working.

All versions of vBulletin 3.x except 3.8.8 and all versions of vBulletin 4.x except 4.2.2 need to make these changes.

See this thread for more info and for the manual file edits: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forum...-may-be-needed

For those not comfortable doing the manual file edit I have created this mod which automates the fixes. If you are comfortable with the manual edits, do them instead.

Before you start- manually backup the /includes/paymentapi/class_paypal.php file (download a copy in a safe place)

Step 1) Upload the file included in the zip (upload the /includes/ folder to your forum root)

Step 2) Import the .xml product file in the zip as a new product into vBulletin Product Manager.

Step 3) Go to Admin CP -> Settings -> Options -> October 7th PayPal Changes Fix by BOP5 (should be at the very bottom)

Step 4) Read the instructions, click the "Run Fix Now" button.

Step 5) If successful, uninstall the mod, you should not need it again.

Note- if for any reason the mod does not work for your server setup then please just make the manual file edits specified in the link above. Trouble-shooting the issue will be more work than the manual edits will be.

Should work with all VB 3.8.x and 4.x.x versions.

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[BirdOPrey5]

I don't believe it is any different for https - the requests made to paypal are independent of whether your site uses https or not.

[hugh_]

Great work as always BOP, thank you for supporting the community!

[gajinoz]

Just installed this, appeared to run perfectly. Guess I won't know if it worked until after Oct 7

Thanks for this, great stuff!

[dawges]

Thank you very much.

[CAG CheechDogg]

Ok BOP5, thanks a lot for the reply...

[NguReaper]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

Reserved.

Is this just for the vbulleitn subscription service that is built into vBulletin or does it also apply to let's say the Mod VSA Paypal donate? Thanks

[ozzy47]

No, that mod does not report back to your server, so it should be fine.

[BirdOPrey5]

Good question, it will depend on the mod. I guess ozzy knows about the paypal mod, good because I didn't.

You'd generally need to check the mod code, if any references to the class_paypal.php file then this update is necessary.

[BadgerDog]

Installed on vb4.1.3pl5 and ran it ...

Feedback indicated it worked fine... uninstalled it as instructed and delete file...

Thanks...

Regards,
Doug

Edit: Note that I had a Paypal transaction successfully process and it occurred after the Oct 7th date (10:23, 8th Oct 2013) being questioned here, so I'm not sure why, since this mod wasn't even installed at that point?

[BirdOPrey5]

Always possible PayPal delayed the change or it wasn't rolled out to all their servers yet. I know Facebook sometimes takes weeks to roll out changes.

Thanks for the feedback.