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Reoccurring Paypal Subscriptions · **Released**: 05-06-2004

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.

amykhar · #**167** 03-21-2005, 11:37 PM

It's more than one line in the new VB, and I saw the same problem today on my own site. Testing takes a while on these things because I have to wait for payments to trickle in. I'm going to look into it tomorrow.

thenewuser · #**168** 03-21-2005, 11:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by amykhar

It's more than one line in the new VB, and I saw the same problem today on my own site. Testing takes a while on these things because I have to wait for payments to trickle in. I'm going to look into it tomorrow.

Could you point me in the right direction?

amykhar · #**169** 03-22-2005, 12:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by thenewuser

Could you point me in the right direction?

I have the correct replacement code in the install file. Several of the hidden variables changed in the newer version of vbulletin. I incorporated them into the hack, but haven't had time to really go over them. Also, I believe some things have changed on the paypal side since this hack was written. I need to wait until tomorrow when my brain is a little less groggy and dive into it in detail.

amykhar · #**170** 03-23-2005, 03:55 PM

OK. I've had some time to poke around and found the one line of code that was making the subscriptions not set up properly.

Remove this line from your functions_subscriptions.php

Code:

			<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"ammount\" value=\"$cost\" />

amykhar · #**171** 03-23-2005, 04:12 PM

OK. Let's try this code to handle the emails going out that shouldn't be:

in your includes/cron/subscriptions.php file
Find:

Code:

user.languageid

Add after:

Code:

,subscription. reoccur

Find:

Code:

LEFT JOIN " . TABLE_PREFIX . "user AS user ON (user.userid = subscriptionlog.userid)

Add After:

Code:

LEFT JOIN " . TABLE_PREFIX . "subscription AS subscription ON (subscription.subscriptionid = subscriptionlog.subscriptionid)

Find:

Code:

	vbmail_start();

Add Above:

Code:

   if (!$subscriptions_reminder[reoccur]){

Find:

Code:

vbmail_end();

Add After:

Code:

I have not updated the install instructions yet because this code has not been thoroughly tested yet. Let me know how it works for you, please.

oztrack · #**172** 03-29-2005, 06:35 AM

I added the new code and it still is not adding new apid members properly even though they go through paypal. Paypal was processed OK as a subscription payment.

amykhar · #**173** 03-29-2005, 10:24 AM

Well, at least that's a step forward. The problem with adding people properly is NOT a problem with the hack. I've had this problem with subscriptions since they were first released. All Jelsoft ever says to me is "it works for me"

So, over the next few days, I am going to dive into Jelsoft code and see if I can't get it working. If possible, can some of you pm me and volunteer to sign up for a one month membership to my site for testing purposes at times I ask you to? I can refund the payment, but am unable to pay myself. (I don't have a second bank account to use to set up a test paypal account)

aggiefan · #**174** 04-12-2005, 08:42 PM

I was wondering...does this install work now without the problems? Where does it stand? I'm about to launch my new board (and recurring payments) would be very awesome....I just don't have time or the man power to manually adjust people.

Can anybody update this?

amykhar · #**175** 04-13-2005, 02:34 AM

The hack, as it is, installs fine. And, it sets up the recurring subscriptions fine. What isn't working right is something that isn't working right with subscriptions in general - even without the hack installed. Some times, payments don't process and subscriptions aren't added or updated.

Romeos Tune · #**176** 04-25-2005, 05:11 AM

This will be great when it's working properly.... When I go to my ACP and test communication I get this error:

cURL Fail
Streams Pass

Whatever cURL is it's showing that it fails. I haven't had anyone sign up yet so it's untested...It takes them to the paypal page to sign up for the right amount but like I said.... It's untested. Can I ignore this or is it going to cause problems and what exactly is the problem? Thanks!

twoseven · #**177** 04-25-2005, 03:04 PM

curl is another set of libs for php and it isnt necessary just makes it nice

Romeos Tune · #**178** 04-25-2005, 04:19 PM

hmmmm, well it's definitely not working properly... I've had several people sign up with paypal but it's not changing their usergroup. I'm having to manually go in and add them to the subscriptions. Anyone have any ideas??

amykhar · #**179** 04-25-2005, 05:12 PM

Romeos, as I said before, that could be the problem with the stock vbulletin subscriptions. I have had problems with those ever since vbulletin 3 was in beta.

Make sure the paypal recurring subscription was set up and make sure you made the changes to the paypal.php file. If you did the paypal.php changes, you are probably seeing the same problem many of us see with subscriptions in general.

Romeos Tune · #**180** 04-26-2005, 03:14 AM

Alrighty then..... Thanks Amy..... I guess I'll just have to wait 'til VB gets it fixed.... If anyone figures out the error or problem I hope they let us know........

Lee · #**181** 04-29-2005, 05:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Romeos Tune

Alrighty then..... Thanks Amy..... I guess I'll just have to wait 'til VB gets it fixed.... If anyone figures out the error or problem I hope they let us know........

Amy,

I am happy to help trouble shoot this if you'd like. I have two paypal accounts to test with if need be. Let me know if I can help - I have installed the hack successfully and also just got through updating your page 12 update for the email fix.

Thanks!

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