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.

[Paradigm]

I am sure you are sick of seeing me post questions about your hacks. Anywho, I have everythings set up the way we want it now the only problem is the donorbar on the forum page is white and can barely be seen. I dont know if this has something to do with our skin or what but can you tell me where I can change the color? Thanks!

[sinisterpain]

Originally Posted by Paradigm

I am sure you are sick of seeing me post questions about your hacks. Anywho, I have everythings set up the way we want it now the only problem is the donorbar on the forum page is white and can barely be seen. I dont know if this has something to do with our skin or what but can you tell me where I can change the color? Thanks!

The bar I see on your Forumhome page is not from my mod but from cybs paypal mod.

[towermatt]

Originally Posted by 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

Wow, thanks Jacquii--what a wonderful thing to say.

And yes, I totally agree that the cause is worthwhile. I wish you luck on your venture. We have already raised over 900.00 and we are just getting started.

I appreciate the forum love too.

[maidos]

i get this

We have received a total of €579 in donations towards our goal of €120

this is the amount set for 3 months when i clearly put it on monthly ad admincp...

the monthly is 130 euro this happends when i updated

[SEdwards1]

Thank you so much for this donation progress bar mate.
I was just lookin' for something like this!

Thanks alot to you!

[laurens800]

can this be inplanted with regular donation page? that is build in VB

[sinisterpain]

Originally Posted by laurens800

can this be inplanted with regular donation page? that is build in VB

VB does not have a donation page it uses subscriptions. This bar will update based on vb subscriptions if its set in admincp

[maidos]

i get this

We have received a total of €579 in donations towards our goal of €120
this is the amount set for 3 months when i clearly put it on monthly ad admincp...

i have the settings integrated to cyb paypal "on" please help

when i turn it on it counts total donation and not counting to monthly

[sinisterpain]

Originally Posted by maidos

i get this

We have received a total of ?579 in donations towards our goal of ?120
this is the amount set for 3 months when i clearly put it on monthly ad admincp...

i have the settings integrated to cyb paypal "on" please help

when i turn it on it counts total donation and not counting to monthly

I will look into this shortly and let you know. I may need to see your admin cp settings to make sure you have them correct.

[rant boss]

This excellent, excellent tool was working fine on my site for the past couple of weeks -- last night my site was migrated from a VPS to a dedicated server, and the host upgraded to PHP 5.2.5 in the process.

Now the donations bar is not showing up...is this related to the newer PHP version?

Any suggestions as to how I can get it to show up again?