Add-On Releases - Donation Progress Bar-Forumhome

What Donations Bar Is:
It is a simple way for Admins to show a donation progress bar on their forum home page with Admin set goals and donations recieved. Because the donation bar is a stand alone it can be utilized with any donation system your using. It adds more visability of your site donation goal requirements and donation button to your members for hopefully more through put in donations.

Can Be Used With:

• Any paypal/donate system.
• PayPal Easy Donate - vB 3.6
  
• Cyb Paypal donate
  Will auto update donor bar now, but must be set in donation bar options.
• Vb Subscriptions (Can be used as manual or auto updating)

This script adds:

1. 3 Plugins
2. 1 Template

Installation:

1. Import the product-donationbar.xml through admin cp
2. If you use Cyb-Paypal mod you must select it in vboptions->Donation Bar->Cyb-paypal set to yes.
3. If you use Vb subrcriptions you must select it in vboptions

Post Installation:
Make sure when entering the form code for your Paypal button the links are formated as follows:

<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
 <input type="hidden" name="business"
      value="sample@sample.com">
                             <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/x-click-butcc-donate.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"></form>

If your using this mod in 3.6.10 or higher and your sending people directly to paypal instead of your donation page from the button you need to add the below or you will recieve the security token error on clicking the button

<input type="hidden" name="securitytoken" value="$bbuserinfo[securitytoken]" />

If you do not use this format for the links your button will not show. Please do not copy and past my info above you must fo to your Paypal account and create a button with your account code and email info.
If you wish instead of a paypal button link you can put the URL to your donation page.

Update Version:

• 1.00 First Realease
• 1.01 updated template to be more in line with default vbulletin style.
• 1.02 Added donation bar color to change to green when 100% or greater donations met.
  Also added version check.
• 1.03 Fixed the color of the bar to not show small piece of red bar on left. Edited donorbar
  template to fix broken donor bar box.
• 1.04 Added Cyb-paypal intergration in admincp donation bar options. Thanks goes to AWJUNKIES for the adddition.
• 1.0.5 Fixed XHTML missing tag. Added ability to enter vbsubscription amount through Admincp. Bar will display only 100% now and once reached will post a thank you below donor button if you have a thank you message set. Fixed the donorbar template to be in the template group and not part of vbulletin so updating updates the template.
• 1.0.6 Added Auto updating of the donor bar for Vb paid subscriptions
• 1.0.7 Added option for auto insert of the donation bar under navbar, you can now float the donation bar if you are using chatbox, option for selection of usergroups able to see donor bar, You have option to enter which page to display donation bar on or show on all pages. General code clean-up.
• 1.0.8 Fixed issue with template not being cached. Added ability to change currency symbol from admincp.
• 1.1.0 Added setting in admincp for setting goal period

Upgrading Instructions:

When upgrading to Version 1.0.7 please make sure you remove the
FORUMHOME template edit as its no longer required. Failure to do so will produce two donor bars on forum index page.

IMPORTANT: If updating from an earlier version than 1.0.5 you must uninstall the earlier version and delete the old donorbar template before importing the new XML file.

Go to your Admincp->Plugin&Products->Manage products->Add/Import Product make sure you select overwrite.

Please report any and all bugs within this thread with as much detail as possible.

Click Mark as Installed for support and so that you will be notified instantly upon any major updates.

CMPS Add On:
CMPS Donation Bar Add on

Thanks to AWJUNKIES for adding the integration of Cyb-paypal to the donor bar mod.

[sinisterpain]

Originally Posted by mystic10

i am quiet counfused please someone help...i put the amount that got donated but still no bar shown i dont know what i am doing wrong...i am inserting a pic so u can help me..it keeps saying 0 received when its not true..i am using cyb pay pal as well i dont knwo what i am doing wrong

You do not need to enter anything in the Member donation field since you are intergrating cyb paypal you entered 11.48 should be blank. Also you need to make sure that your member donations are confirmed if they are not then they will not show. Also it would help to show all your options that are selected.

[Budweiser]

It looks nice but I wont use it. I have tried taking donations in the past and have found that most people wont donate. Thats just my experience. I hope others have had better luck.

Later,
Kevin

[mystic10]

sorry for the ignorance and sounding totally stupid...but sir...people clicke the donate buttton that i have place in the donation bar...they did not click the link presented by cyb....so thats why i manually added it..as there is no other way to show confirmation....means that my site has two links..one on the navbar...related to cyb hack..and the other pay pal donation button...that i have used in ur hack....u can look...www.yah00-city.com....how do i go about integrating both so there is one button and both are connected..hope i made sense

[sinisterpain]

Originally Posted by mystic10

sorry for the ignorance and sounding totally stupid...but sir...people clicke the donate buttton that i have place in the donation bar...they did not click the link presented by cyb....so thats why i manually added it..as there is no other way to show confirmation....means that my site has two links..one on the navbar...related to cyb hack..and the other pay pal donation button...that i have used in ur hack....u can look...www.yah00-city.com....how do i go about integrating both so there is one button and both are connected..hope i made sense

Just make the link in your button the same as the link in the navbar. Also the web address you provided goes no where.

[towermatt]

Originally Posted by Budweiser

It looks nice but I wont use it. I have tried taking donations in the past and have found that most people wont donate. Thats just my experience. I hope others have had better luck.

Later,
Kevin

I'm having them donate to charity. Already collected 600 bucks!

Makes you feel good, great free advertising.

[mystic10]

hehe yes cause there are too many dots..the correct link would be:

http://www.yah00-city.com/index.php

sir sorry for being a bother..but how would i go about liniking the two together...as i want the donation button so people can see

[PoetJA-1975]

Originally Posted by towermatt

I'm having them donate to charity. Already collected 600 bucks!

Makes you feel good, great free advertising.

Nice idea - You could also have them donate to the wonderful charity of JPiC Forum For Writers aka Poetry in Color Forum - the address of course is in my siggy :P

Jacquii.

[sinisterpain]

Originally Posted by mystic10

hehe yes cause there are too many dots..the correct link would be:

http://www.yah00-city.com/index.php

sir sorry for being a bother..but how would i go about liniking the two together...as i want the donation button so people can see

In the Admincp->vboptions->Donation Bar
Find the heading Form Code for Donations and enter

<br><a href="misc.php?do=donate"><image  src="link to your paypal button" border="0" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"></a>

Make sure you put the link to your donation button were its highlighted above in red.

[towermatt]

Originally Posted by PoetJA-1975

Nice idea - You could also have them donate to the wonderful charity of JPiC Forum For Writers aka Poetry in Color Forum - the address of course is in my siggy :P

Jacquii.

Funny you mention that, they are donating to The Haven Foundation which is a charity set up by Stephen King to support freelance artists.

[PoetJA-1975]

Wow - How interesting - but yes - We artists do struggle - it would be a wonderful opportunity to have such a charity donation set up, all joking aside lol - At anyrate - wonderful idea you have, as generally with any type of artistic niche (especially writing) - it's not very easy to succeed - but the reward of being a creationist is most often the reward in itself...

At anyrate - It is indeed a wonderful idea you have - and I may in fact apply for the Haven Foundation grant - sounds like a great opportunity!

Jacquii.

ps - very nice forum you have