Reoccurring Paypal Subscriptions

What this does (added in first post)

With the current vbulletin subscription set up, it only charges your members one time. So if you have a pay based site, or forum area they have to keep subscribing, and causing them to waste time and effort (and maybe you lose money)

What this does, is give you the option if you want one time payment (standard vb) or reoccurring payment.

When you choose reoccurring the script has them sign up for a reoccurring payment, as paypal sends you confirmation each time you get a subscription payment, your system will now update their access time.

This will save your members from having to resign up all the time and hopefully save you some money


For instance, say you have a paying member?s only area, and you want them to have to pay $10 a month.

With this you can charge per month and it handles all the charges, and every month they send another payment automatically your script gets updated and sets their new expiration.


This has been asked for many times and IMO should have been in to begin with.

Enjoy and I will help as I can.

Note from the new supporter: This hack is now being actively supported again. I have updated the install instructions to work for version 3.0.7, and we can now begin to work out any existing bugs. This code is still raw and has not been tested extensively due to the difficult nature of testing paypal transactions.

[por4x4]

Originally Posted by por4x4

Trying to install this on 3.0.3, and am having trouble finding some of the code....

Instructions call to find -

function construct_payment($method, $cost, $currency, $subscriptionid, $title, $userid)
{
	global $vboptions;

But all I can find is this -

function construct_payment($method, $cost, $currency, $subscriptionid, $title, $userinfo)
{
	global $vboptions;

What to do?

Buller? Buller? This is one of the BEST hacks of all time. Come awn, someone has got to know how to get this to work with 3.0.3!

[RapCheck]

guys, instead of replacing the whole section theres just one part that is added so just change

PHP Code:

global $vboptions; 


to

PHP Code:

global $vboptions,$DB_site; 


[por4x4]

Originally Posted by RapCheck

guys, instead of replacing the whole section theres just one part that is added so just change

PHP Code:

global $vboptions; 


to

PHP Code:

global $vboptions,$DB_site; 


lol I knew it had to be an easy fix, but that was ridiculous! Thanks man!

[Ted S]

Great hack, it took only a few minutes to install on 3.0.3, thanks!

[rs-host.net]

I coded something like this for my site, but not a bad hack here.

[Chazz Layne]

Originally Posted by dkny

you right I did skip this step, I modified it but I still cant get the members group to change plus they users dont show up in the subscription page. Any ideas what it could be?

Any updates on this problem from anyone? Having the same issue here, v3.0.1. Checked and rechecked the install...

[Doug Quance]

Rob-

I'm getting an error when executing the SQL query:


An error occurred while attempting to execute your query. The following information was returned.
error number: 1146
error desc: Table 'webster3_forums.subscription' doesn't exist


Your thoughts?

BTW, I am running 3.0.3 with the vBadvanced CMPS... which script should I use?

Thanks so much for this hack... I am going to send you a few bucks for your time

[Doug Quance]

Btw... I've never seen an INSTALL button in the header of a thread before... how does that work? After all... the code I need to install is not on my local computer, but on a server...

Just curious.

[Doug Quance]

Well... I found that particular issue.... I had to change my query to "vb3_subscription"

[Doug Quance]

Well... everything seemed to go pretty well, until I tried purchasing a subscription. When (as a customer) I click the link to purchase, I go to:

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr

and that page displays:

Error Detected

The link you have used to enter the PayPal system is invalid. Please review the link and try again.


Any clues as to how to fix this?

I checked the code over as best as I can, and I can't see where the problem might be.