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.

[nyunyu]

Sinisterpain, I would very much love this hack to be working on 3.5.4. Can you post the 3.5.4 version of this xml? Im using the old noblepagan paypal hack thus other than inserting the link onto navbar, i can put this instead and link it to my donation page.

Thanks

[Vinyljunky]

Originally Posted by sinisterpain

Should not need this in the code if your linking to Cyb-Paypal mod

<input type="hidden" name="business"
      value="sample@sample.com">

Sinisterpain,

Ive removed it

Thank you for creating a great mod :up:

VinylJunky

[AWJunkies]

Deleted the attachment XML.

Also it is not set to be on arcade. Why would you want it to display on arcade? I can make it do that if you really want to but I see no point it is a home page thing not a flood every page with it mod.

[rwoscott]

Installed, Thankyou

[sinisterpain]

Originally Posted by Vinyljunky

Sinisterpain,

Ive removed it

Thank you for creating a great mod :up:

VinylJunky

I did not look at all of the link code you had posted it should look like below not as a <form> code.

<a href ="http://www.yoursite.com/forum/misc.php?do=donate">
<img src="https://www.paypal.com/en_GB/i/bnr/horizontal_solution_PP.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!">

[Vinyljunky]

Originally Posted by AWJunkies

Deleted the attachment XML.

Also it is not set to be on arcade. Why would you want it to display on arcade? I can make it do that if you really want to but I see no point it is a home page thing not a flood every page with it mod.

Ok good point Its just that I was trying to generate a bit more cash

Originally Posted by sinisterpain

I did not look at all of the link code you had posted it should look like below not as a <form> code.

<a href ="http://www.yoursite.com/forum/misc.php?do=donate">
<img src="https://www.paypal.com/en_GB/i/bnr/horizontal_solution_PP.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!">

Thank you

VinylJunky

[petacat]

Thanks for the update. It is implemented now.

2 more suggestions:
1. Still allow for additional amounts (eg ad revenue) to be included as well as the donations.
2. Consider a smaller donation Bar (possibly a thermometer style) that can be used in a sidebar

Thanks again. Good work!

[sinisterpain]

Originally Posted by petacat

Thanks for the update. It is implemented now.

2 more suggestions:
1. Still allow for additional amounts (eg ad revenue) to be included as well as the donations.
2. Consider a smaller donation Bar (possibly a thermometer style) that can be used in a sidebar

Thanks again. Good work!

If you use vbadvanced I have created a cmps version for side bar.

Still allow for additional amounts (eg ad revenue) to be included as well as the donations.

There are far to many ad mods on vb.org to possibly account for any particular one that a user might have installed on his board, and it would IMO not follow the intent of why I created the mod.

[Catziggy]

Okay i think i know why its not working for me. Does the new system edit the navbar template? I am using a template from vbstyles which almost negates the use of the navbar and transfers all the workings like the links etc except the welcome section to header template.

Is this the issue?

[sinisterpain]

Originally Posted by Catziggy

Okay i think i know why its not working for me. Does the new system edit the navbar template? I am using a template from vbstyles which almost negates the use of the navbar and transfers all the workings like the links etc except the welcome section to header template.

Is this the issue?

For custom templates you must manually edit the forumhome template as directed in the above instructions. Also you need to go to admincp->vboptions->Donation Bar and configure your settings.