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Sorry Guys...I have disappeared from vB coding completely for the time being...RL is paying me $35/hour to ignore it lol. Hope you understand why I haven't been around... Paypal Donations For vBulletin 3.5 Version 2.02b Hack Provided and coded by )O( Cloudrunner )O( of The Noble Pagan. Release version: 2.02b Release Date: 03 July 2005 Change Log Paypal Donations 2.02
Special Thanks Special Thanks goes to the following people, without their support, this would never have happened: dsboyce8624 guvner SLeeeper And all of the Alpha Testers that helped out with this Hack! I couldn't have done it without you all, Thank you! )O( Cloudrunner )O( What Paypal Donations Is: Paypal Donations is a complete system that controls donations and how they are received via backend interfacing between your vBulletin server and Paypal's payment gateway server. The beauty of this marriage of servers is quite simply automation of the donation process as well as security of the transactions for both you, the administrator, and your users. With the Paypal donations system installed on your forums, you will be able to bring in that much needed income to not only keep your forums alive, but also to help defer costs of doing so to the users of your site without having to bug everyone and beg for money.This seamless integration of Paypal as your backend payment processor not only provides your user with a well known and safe payment processor, but you are saved the hassle of opening a merchant account with your banking institution as well as saves you time in the process as it takes only a few short minutes to sign up with Paypal if you are not already an account holder there. System Requirements OS: vBulletin 3.5 (if you are running this already, then your server has the required installation, GD libraries are required, as well as CURL capabilities for this system to work) Things To Do Before Installation Direct File Edits To vB Resident Files: 1 (needed to group templates in AdminCP)File Uploads: 34 (Of which 18 will be deleted after installation, leaving a total of 16 Files on your server) Direct Database Queries: None, the installer does these for you Direct Plugin Installation: None, the installer does these for you Direct Template Modification: None, the installer installs all new templates, and modifies the resident templates as needed The uninstaller will remove all modifications (to include the templates) should you decide to remove the system from your server. How To Install / Upgrade Paypal Donations Installation and Upgrading are as easy as a human like me could make it. Simply upload all the files from the archive to your server keeping the folder hierarchy intact and then point your browser to the installation file. On most servers it will be one of the following:
If you ever decide to remove the system, just upload the install files and folder again and run the installer and choose uninstall. The uninstaller will remove any and all modifications that it did to your files, database, and templates automatically as well. Its as easy as you can get! Time to install: less than five minutes depending on your upload speed. Steps To Perform After Installation
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Final words You will need to add a link somewhere in your navigation system for vBulletin pointing your users to the donations page (if you installed the vBadvanced Module then you have a link on the home page, but you might want to add one in the nav bar as well), as well as setting up your paypal account to give IPN responses to you, you can do this in your Paypal Profile under Instant Payment Notification. To play in PayPal's Sandbox you will need to be registered with their developer network and setup a few sandbox accounts to play with the sandbox properly. I have throughly tested the sandbox functionality, and it is working until they decide to change coding standards again. I sincerely hope that you enjoy this hack, Please feel free to send feedback to tnp@noblepagan.com ! Thank you!)O( Cloudrunner )O( P.s. Should you feel the need to donate to me in thanks, I will not stop you , in fact I will say thank you and that your support is greatly appreciated. If you do donate to me for this hack, I will give the recognition here as well as on The Noble Pagan. You can find my donations page here (also works as a demo site should you feel the need to check it out): The Noble Pagan Donation Page Supporters / CoAuthors Show Your Support
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I am having the same problems. I know I talked to sinisterpain about this on MSN and he didnt know what it was exactly either.
I have done everything to try and fix the problem but it just doesnt want to work anymore. The funny thing is on my developer forum it works but on our live forum it doesn't BTW just wondering what is the addy like for your forums mine is just www.xxx.com/ppverify.php while my test forum is www.xxx.com/test/ppverify.php could it be that we cant use our root directory? |
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If paypal does not find the confirmation script or is not allowed access it will not write the member information to the database, but you will see the payment going through your paypal account since the first step in the process for members is going to your paypal account to complete the transaction. I have had the hack running on my site for a year with only one problem which was due to my playing with the confirmation scripts to try adding subscriptions. I know the Paypal hack works less a few functions that require fixing, and everyone has different server configurations as well as hacks. In your case it does not make any sense to me why it would work on your test server and not on your live server since they both share the same database. This can only lead me to believe that some configuration is different between the two and it could be the link to the ppverify file and how it is called in the donation settup or on the paypal site. |
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Database error in vBulletin 3.6.5:
Invalid SQL: INSERT INTO phrase (`phraseid`, `languageid`, `varname`, `text`, `phrasetypeid`) VALUES ('', '-1', 'settinggroup_donations', 'PayPal Donations', '5000'); MySQL Error : Unknown column 'phrasetypeid' in 'field list' Error Number : 1054 someone help me please |
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Ok after loads of time I have figured it out. I must pay my respects to sinister for his help. These are my findings so listen up. first you must use the .xml and NOT the install script to upload this hack on your system. second when creating sandbox accounts make sure you create two. One to donate with and one for accepting the donations. Which ever sandbox account you use to accept payments with MUST be preimer or business account and MUST be verified and confirmed. Also your server files must be set up correctly. If you use CMPS as your homepage put the index.php for it in your public_html directory. Then you must have a forum directory in your public_html directory for your vbulletin board files. If your like me you will have to put any styles you have in both diectories. Your ppverify.php MUST be in your forum root, in the forum directory along with your donate.php. Then ensure all settings are correct in the admin cp for the donations. Especially your URL's. Remember to add your forum directory to your URL's.
Ok now that we covered that lets mention the module. I continually got a white page when my module was active. If this happens to you try turrning off GZIP HTML Output. Go to admin cp-->vboptions-->Cookies and HTTP Header Options-->GZIP HTML Output. If this fixes the problem your service provider likely allready runs this for you. Thanks to Sinisterpain for his help in troubleshooting this addon. Its a great addon. Our members wher asking for donor recognition and this is a great start. |
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Has anyone figured out why the donor table is no longer being updated? Someone mentioned that Paypal made a change to their verification script, is anyone else having this problem? I have been manually putting in my donations for some time.
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What type of paypal account do you have? What version of vb are you running? Have you tryed creating a sandbox account to test your donations. Is your ppverify file in the correct location and cmodded 755? Is your paypal IPN on and pointing to the correct directory?
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Everything was working with the 2.x donation release for the last YEAR, and all of the sudden the donations are not being credited properly (i.e. I get a donation, but it is not being recorded in the donor table). Someone mentioned several pages back that Paypal had changed their format for notices, and that it broke the VB side of the exchange. Any help would be appreciated. |
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