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Due to real life I have ended support of this hack. Please see licensing information below. Please read the troubleshooting tips below before asking for support. ******************************** Paypal Donations for vBulletin 3.0.7 Release version: 1.07 Release Date: 28 June 2005 ChangeLog: Paypal Donations 1.08 Special Thanks:
dsboyce8624 SLeeeper And all of the Alpha Testers that helped out with this Hack! I couldn't have done it without you. What it does Quite simply this hack provides you a way to receive donations from your website's users and provide them with the recognition deserving of a donating member of you community. It uses Paypal exclusively because of Paypal's "Instant Payment Notification" system.The basics are this:
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Stuff you have to do Files to upload: 34 Files to modify: 3 Templates to modify: 1 (required) / 2 (Optional) Queries to run: (The install script does this for you, uninstallation is also provided as well) Ease of install: easy, simply follow the instructions in the install script. Time of install: ~5 minutes ***REMEMBER! Add your email address that Paypal has on file in Donations settings. This step is not an option, your payments, although they may be valid, will all be considered invalid if you do not do this! Sign up for Paypal's Premiere Account (Business), and setup IPN. Paypal Registration You will need to register with Paypal for a premiere account if you have not already, if you have, but your account is probably a personal account, you will need to upgrade the account to a premiere account. Assuming that you have a premiere account and have been verified, you then go into your profile at http://www.paypal.com and the select Instant Payment Notification. There will be a checkbox that you must check, you do NOT have to point to the script at Paypal, if you choose not to do this, then you will need to make sure that your Notification URL is put in the settings or this script will NOT WORK!On most systems it will be either: http://www.yourdomain.com/ppverify.phpor http://www.yourdomain.com/forum/ppverify.phpThat's all there is to setting up Paypal to work with your site! Install Upload all the files in the archive into their provided directoriesRun the provided install file, setup your settings, after installation, DELETE THE FILE! This will usually be: http://www.yourdomain.com/forum/admi...ns_install.phpor http://www.yourdomain.com/admincp/donations_install.php How To Use The System To begin with, you simply upload all the files into their respective directories (keeping the structure in the archive).After you upload the files, point your browser to the installation file: donations_install.php and run the installer all the way through, remembering to save your settings at the end (you MUST put in your paypal email, and the path to donate.php, and the path to ppverify.php). Remember, if you have the system set in test mode, you will not be able to process LIVE transactions. If you are going live immediately, then change this setting to no! After you install, simply delete the donation_install folder and all files within it, and the install file. Now you are ready to play. The system is 100% phrased on the user viewable side, so you will need to edit some of the phrases to better suit your site, specifically the phrases titled: your_donations_are_appreciated all_donations_go_towards_furthering_goals donation_used_to_further_mission are the ones that I recommend redoing to suit your site. After editing the phrases, next comes adding your donation buttons and goals. Always add your goals first as the buttons can be attached to a specific goal so that the user gets credit for donating towards a specific goal (you can of course add a button that does not attach to a goal for a general coffer fund type of deal, but goals are the preferred method). After adding a goal, you can then add a button to the site. The settings for the buttons are self-explanatory for the most part, the only required input from you is the title, and the description of the button. Everything else will work fine without input. The system defaults to use the USD currency. If you change this currency in the Donations settings, then to get the correct exchange pricing, you need to run the CRON file to update your Exchange Rates table. To do this simply log into your AdminCP and then do the following:
From there, it's all fairly intuitive. The biggest thing to remember is that to use this hack you MUST have a paypal Business or Premiere account, and have turned IPN on in your Paypal profile. If you run into troubles with a transaction, make sure that you are not trying to verify a sandbox transaction with the live Paypal server and vice versa (the test setting). Secondly, this system will notify you of suspect transactions that Paypal refuses to validate. If you get an email stating that a transaction was invalid, it would suit you to investigate it to find out where the transaction came from and why it failed verification. If all is kosher you can add the donor to the AdminCP so that they get credit for the donation. To assist in this you can edit an invalid transaction to show as valid if the transaction turns out to be kosher. The steps to this are as follows:
After Install You will need to add a link somewhere in your navigation system for vBulletin pointing your users to the donations page (if you installed the vBadvanced Module then you have a link on the home page, but you might want to add one in the nav bar as well), as well as setting up your paypal account to give IPN responses to you, you can do this in your Paypal Profile under Instant Payment Notification.To play in PayPal's Sandbox you will need to be registered with their developer network and setup a few sandbox accounts to play with the sandbox properly. I have throughly tested the sandbox functionality, and it is working until they decide to change coding standards again. Troubleshooting tips and procedures Due to the multitude of possible break-points between Paypal and this script I must request that the following be followed before reequesting support on this system from this point forward:
Lastly, if you have modified the base files in any way, I will NOT give support to this. The files are set in the way that they need to be to run under 90% of server installations. Any other installations that require files to be merged, etc., sorry but you are on yer own in that situation. FYI: The Paypal Notification is completely seperate from the user being sent back to your site. Thus the reason that the ppverify.php file is NOT a function of donate.php. How To Get vBadvanced CMPS v1 Module to work with vBadvance CMPS v2 Follow this link to aranthorn's Instructions on how to get this to work. https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=669033&postcount=231 Thank you aranthorn!!! ******************************** I sincerely hope that you enjoy this hack, Please feel free to send feedback to tnp@noblepagan.com! To view this in action head over to: http://damn.that-sucks.net or http://www.noblepagan.com Thank you! )O( Cloudrunner )O( P.s. Anyone who feels the need to donate to me (*hint hint*) feel free to do so, I won't stop you (yeah, I'm as greedy as the next guy). In fact we are a non-profit organization over at The Noble Pagan, so your donation would be tax-deductible . LICENSE: Quote:
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Iterrim Update folks--
It seems that I added a small bug where all of your users were being identified as donors regardless of their donaiton status. This have been fixed, simply upload ALL of the new files and run the upgrader. After you have done this YOU MUST REDO ALL THE FILE AND TEMPLATE MODIFICATIONS!!! Specifically the modifications to the files ./profile.php, and the templates modifyoptions, postbit/postbit legacy, and MEMBERINFO. This will make the system correctly recognize the donors to your site, this is also inline with whether the users have chosen to be shown as a donor as well. You may want to tell your users to redo their show donor option to refresh their setting if they don't want their status publicly shown as the system will by default mark everyone as a donor after this upgrade until they choose otherwise...also, you will need to identify your donors again by setting their donor column in the user table back to '1'...side effect of the fix, sorry... As always, Love and light to you all... )O( Cloudrunner )O( |
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Hi Cloudrunner
A few questions: 1. I'm sitting nicely on 1.04 and all is well. I have for some time manually added a sponsor gif to the legacy postbit (by adding an html image call in custom user titles) whenever someone donated and have continued to do that with your hack. Now that there is a postbit addon to automate this, could I please get a look (screenie) from anybody to see how it looks, just to make sure it won't spoil my legacy postbit's appearance? 2. Assuming that I upgrade to 1.06, and given that I have made a number of template changes (including the VBA templates), will the upgrade wipe all those? - and if so, is there an easy way to upgrade without having to redo the edits for the 3rd time :ermm: 3. Same as 2 but with phrases, does the upgrade reset all phrases to original? I'm reluctant to upgrade ATM because I found that several of the changes to templates I needed to make turned out to be a combination of template and phrase in a single statement, also, I made AUD as the default currency in donatebits (I had a couple of locals donate in USD) :squareeyed: So I guess my final question is, if I am going to have to redo all previous edits, would you have a an approximate ETA on the final, because I might simply wait for that to avoid having to do it all again? BTW, congrats from me again on great work - and my members have made a lot of very complimentary remarks as well! Thanks, Mike |
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Thanks for the quick fix. Sorry if it was already posted as a known bug, this is a very large thread and I couldnt find any info on it..
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