Donations / Paypal IPN Integration

Well, after searching and searching for a donation system that works, I've come to the realization that although there are a few good contribution / donation hacks out there, none of them are compatible with Paypal's IPN feature. That being the case I went experimenting, and got the IPN to work properly with VB.

So now I'm dealing with options and features that you all want to see in this type of hack. I am willing to put forth the effort to get this hack to be the best one there is on the market for this. After I get all the coding and stuff done with paypal and the "look & feel" of the hack for the rest of your VB site, I'll work on integrating it with Authorize.net as well. But for now, since the IPN is working, I need your input on what you would like to see included with this hack.

So far, I'm looking at a notification on the memberlist, one in the postbit for members of the top ten donators club, possible rewards for certain levels of donations, the option to show total amount collected, and exactly where the $$$ is going to (this is needed for me personally since my site is not-for-profit, so may be helpful to you as well), with the main donations page showing all the above with an information page for explanations of where the $$$ goes, etc.

The IPN backend is running via Paypal's recommended procedures and should any suspicious activities be seen by either the script or Paypal's server, the script will not add the information into the main database, but into a separate table for further investigation by the admin.

One thing that I am missing that I need help on is verifying Paypal's Verisign Digital Signature, When it comes to that, I'm dumber than Jim Carrey on LSD. If I could get help on that one, we will all be appreciative as this will increase the security of the system.

Please, let me know your ideas for this hack, and I will get them on my "ToDo" list. Please be understanding and patient though, as I am about to have a second child born into the world within the next few weeks, so may drop off working on this one for abit, but I will continue to code for it during my free time.

Until then, Enjoy!

)O( Cloudrunner )O(

[shri]

I'm willing to work on part 8 for ya. Just got everything installed.

Now going to install curl and see what would be the best mechanism to get this done.

Shri

[trafix]

8 is easy, lol .... it took me a week to work that out for the trader

[Erwin]

Add points to the member according to how much they donated.

[Cloudrunner]

via Lesane's Store? I can work that in, but for other points systems, I don't use them, so it would have to be an addon from someone who has one of those installed.

[Erwin]

You can do it for Lesane, and I will convert it for my custom poinst system.

[Cloudrunner]

no problem, will drop that in the "ToDo".

Gonna work on the memberlist and postbit now though...I've a few minnows avalable tonight surprisingly...The wife has crashed....thank the gods!

[Cloudrunner]

UPDATE:

Finished integration into the memberlist. Will update toys and graphics later. This requires a small addition to the user table. One TINYINT(1) field that is merely a 1 if donated or a 0 if not donated.

[Cloudrunner]

Okay, one question...

Where's the best place to add a bit of code for it to show up in the postbit?

I tried this code in the showthreads.php, but that didn't work.

($donated is the variable called by the postbit template)

edit: Nevermind...Found it!

[Cloudrunner]

UPDATE:

Finished the postbit. Again, I'll be working on toys and ++++ later.

On that note, anyone care to design me up three postbit graphics simply to show three levels of appreciation for donations? I'll let you have free artistic creativity on them, and you'll have full credit for them in the release. They will be used on the postbit and the memberlist.

Thanks, and for the screen:

[Cloudrunner]

here ya go