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PayPal Donations For vBulletin 3.5.0 · **Released**: 07-02-2005

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Paypal Donations For vBulletin 3.5
Version 2.02b

Hack Provided and coded by )O( Cloudrunner )O( of The Noble Pagan.
Release version: 2.02b
Release Date: 03 July 2005

Change Log

Paypal Donations 2.02

Fixed Bug introduced with the installer for the tables from 2.01
Added Who's Online Support Plugins For Donations Script

Paypal Donations 2.01

Fixed a small bug in the display of the top / last donors on the donate page.

Paypal Donations 2.00

Ported system over to vBulletin 3.50
Added ability for the installer to install template edits automatically
System installs plugins automatically
Fixed some minor bugs that were present in 1.07 of the 3.0.7 vBulletin donations system.

Special Thanks

Special Thanks goes to the following people, without their support, this would never have happened:

dsboyce8624
guvner
SLeeeper
And all of the Alpha Testers that helped out with this Hack!

I couldn't have done it without you all, Thank you!

)O( Cloudrunner )O(

What Paypal Donations Is:

Paypal Donations is a complete system that controls donations and how they are received via backend interfacing between your vBulletin server and Paypal's payment gateway server. The beauty of this marriage of servers is quite simply automation of the donation process as well as security of the transactions for both you, the administrator, and your users. With the Paypal donations system installed on your forums, you will be able to bring in that much needed income to not only keep your forums alive, but also to help defer costs of doing so to the users of your site without having to bug everyone and beg for money.

This seamless integration of Paypal as your backend payment processor not only provides your user with a well known and safe payment processor, but you are saved the hassle of opening a merchant account with your banking institution as well as saves you time in the process as it takes only a few short minutes to sign up with Paypal if you are not already an account holder there.

System Requirements

OS: vBulletin 3.5 (if you are running this already, then your server has the required installation, GD libraries are required, as well as CURL capabilities for this system to work)

Things To Do Before Installation

Direct File Edits To vB Resident Files: 1 (needed to group templates in AdminCP)
File Uploads: 34 (Of which 18 will be deleted after installation, leaving a total of 16 Files on your server)
Direct Database Queries: None, the installer does these for you
Direct Plugin Installation: None, the installer does these for you
Direct Template Modification: None, the installer installs all new templates, and modifies the resident templates as needed

The uninstaller will remove all modifications (to include the templates) should you decide to remove the system from your server.

How To Install / Upgrade Paypal Donations

Installation and Upgrading are as easy as a human like me could make it. Simply upload all the files from the archive to your server keeping the folder hierarchy intact and then point your browser to the installation file. On most servers it will be one of the following:

Just follow the prompts from there folks, the installer does all the database, template, plugin, phrasing, and settings automatically for you!

If you ever decide to remove the system, just upload the install files and folder again and run the installer and choose uninstall. The uninstaller will remove any and all modifications that it did to your files, database, and templates automatically as well. Its as easy as you can get!

Time to install: less than five minutes depending on your upload speed.

Steps To Perform After Installation

You must make sure that you have either a Business or Premiere account with Paypal.
1. If you do not, then you will need to upgrade your Paypal account to that level before this system will work.
You must have Paypal's IPN (Instant Payment Notification) turned on in your Paypal Profile.
1. You do not need to have it pointing at any particular file for this system to work as the system will tell Paypal where to send the IPN to credit your users and notify you of the transaction.
You will need to run through the donations settings at the end of the installer and make sure that you have all the required information in there.
Please note that this system can be placed into test mode (default setting is ON when system is first installed).
1. This setting tells the system whether to speak with the real Paypal Server for transactions or with Paypal's Sandbox (testing) server. If you wish to test the system before going live you will need to have access to Paypal's Sandbox server, you can sign up for access there at: http://developer.paypal.com.
You will need to input your Paypal Account Email into the settings
You will need to input the full URL to your donate.php file so that your users can make it back to your site after payment
You will need to input the full URL to your ppverify.php file so that Paypal can send your IPNs to you and your system can process the information and give your users credit for the donation

License

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brandon J. Briggs aka. Cloudrunner

As the original author of the Paypal Hacks for vBulletin 3.0.x and 3.5.x I give full authorization to modify, recode, compile and/or reverse engineer the paypal donation hacks to any and all fully licensed members of vBulletin.org. I also give permission to fully distribute any derivative works that are created due to this authorization without need of providing credit or other means of recompense.

I am releasing this authorization in the hopes that someone will be able to carry on the work that was begun.

Final words

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.

I sincerely hope that you enjoy this hack, Please feel free to send feedback to tnp@noblepagan.com !

Thank you!

)O( Cloudrunner )O(

P.s. Should you feel the need to donate to me in thanks, I will not stop you

, in fact I will say thank you and that your support is greatly appreciated. If you do donate to me for this hack, I will give the recognition here as well as on The Noble Pagan. You can find my donations page here (also works as a demo site should you feel the need to check it out):

The Noble Pagan Donation Page

Detomah · #**332** 10-31-2005, 04:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by divided_by_fear

its really not to hard to be honest... you have to go into the .xml file and for the title where it says "vBulletin" near the top, you have to change it to all lowercase "vbulletin", then resave... that makes it show up in admiccp.... reread my post i asked the same thing cause mine didnt show....

lol, that's one of those silly errors that could take forever to find.

Anyway thanks, you've just saved me a lot of time on that as I was wondering why it wasn't showing too.

evenmonkeys · #**333** 10-31-2005, 04:19 AM

I just ran the install and the admincp nav didn't come up. >_> Did I mis something? Everything else seems to be working. I did make the edit to the file.

DS MrSinister · #**334** 10-31-2005, 07:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xYarub

I just ran the install and the admincp nav didn't come up. >_> Did I mis something? Everything else seems to be working. I did make the edit to the file.

Here is the fix.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=286

evenmonkeys · #**335** 10-31-2005, 10:59 PM

Ah. Thank you very much.

Case sensitivity > the donations hack.

DS MrSinister · #**336** 10-31-2005, 11:46 PM

now if i only can get the vba module template to work. can anyone help me out on this. so i can get this to work with 3.5 gold. the templates was from 3.0.X. not sure what i need to replace or remove.

any help would be great thanks.

adv_portal_donate

Code:

<!-- Donations Block -->

<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" class="tborder" width="100%">
	<tr>
		<td class="tcat"><span class="smallfont"><strong>$vba_options[portal_blockbullet] Donations</strong></span></td>
	</tr>
	$donate_goals_bits
	<if condition="$vboptions['showdonors'] == '1'">
		<if condition="$vboptions['toporlast'] == '1'">
			<tr>
				<td class="$getbgrow" align="center">
					Our Top $vboptions[donate_CMPS_users] Donors
					<div class="float: right">
						<span class="smallfont">
							<a href="$vboptions[bburl]/alldonors.php">View All Donors</a>
						</span>
					</div>
					<hr />
					<table>
						$donate_goals_userbits
					</table>
				</td>
		<else />
			<tr>
				<td class="$getbgrow" align="center">
					Our Last $vboptions[donate_CMPS_users] Donors
					<div class="float: right">
						<span class="smallfont">
							<a href="$vboptions[bburl]/alldonors.php">View All Donors</a>
						</span>
					</div>
					<hr />
					<table>
						$donate_goals_userbits
					</table>
				</td>
		</if>
	</if>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td class="$getbgrow" align="center">
			<a href="$vboptions[bburl]/donate.php"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/donate_button.gif" border="0"></a>
		</td>
	</tr>
</table>
<br />

<!-- End Donations Block -->

adv_portal_donate_goals

Code:

<tr>
	<td class="$getbgrow" align="center">
		$title
		<br />
		<img src="$vboptions[bburl]/includes/pp_image.php?fill=$vboptions[bar_fill_color]&border=$vboptions[bar_border_color]&background=$vboptions[bar_background_color]&percentage=$percentage&width=$vboptions[bar_width]&height=$vboptions[bar_height]">
		<br />
		$percentage% of goal has been donated
		<br />
		<br />
		We have collected a total of <if condition="$vboptions['base_currency'] == 'USD' OR $vboptions['base_currency'] == 'AUD' OR $vboptions['base_currency'] == 'CAD'">$<else /><if condition="$vboptions['base_currency'] == 'EUR'">?<else /><if condition="$vboptions['base_currency'] == 'GBP'">?<else /><if condition="$vboptions['base_currency'] == 'JPY'">?</if></if></if></if>$goal_total_formatted
		<br />
		in donations towards our goal of <if condition="$vboptions['base_currency'] == 'USD' OR $vboptions['base_currency'] == 'AUD' OR $vboptions['base_currency'] == 'CAD'">$<else /><if condition="$vboptions['base_currency'] == 'EUR'">?<else /><if condition="$vboptions['base_currency'] == 'GBP'">?<else /><if condition="$vboptions['base_currency'] == 'JPY'">?</if></if></if></if>$amount_formatted.
	</td>
</tr>

adv_portal_donate_goals_user

Code:

<if condition="$show_as_donor == '1'">
	<tr>
		<td>$donor_username</td>
		<td><if condition="$vboptions['base_currency'] == 'USD' OR $vboptions['base_currency'] == 'AUD' OR $vboptions['base_currency'] == 'CAD'">$<else /><if condition="$vboptions['base_currency'] == 'EUR'">?<else /><if condition="$vboptions['base_currency'] == 'GBP'">?<else /><if condition="$vboptions['base_currency'] == 'JPY'">?</if></if></if></if>$user_total</td>
	</tr>
</if>

dreck · #**337** 11-01-2005, 01:51 AM

<font color="Green">/me installs</font>

I will install this tomar, thanks!

RGSMDNR · #**338** 11-01-2005, 11:51 AM

how do i get it so the user has the donator under their name? its not showing up after they donate.

davidw · #**339** 11-01-2005, 02:23 PM

I was just playing around with this and here's something I've come up with. I combined all three into one, but there's a lot of variables I don't know at the moment (so here's a rough draft)...

adv_portal_donate

PHP Code:


			
<if condition="$vboptions['toporlast'] == '1'">
<tr>
    <td class="$getbgrow" align="center">Our Top $vboptions[donations_top_donor] Donors
        <div class="float: right">
            <table>
                $donate_goals_userbits
            </table>
        <span class="smallfont"><a href="$vboptions[bburl]/alldonors.php">View All Donors</a></span></div><hr />
    </td>
</tr>
</if>

<if condition="$vboptions['toporlast'] == '0'">
<tr>
    <td class="$getbgrow" align="center">Our Last $vboptions[donations_last_donor] Donors
        <div class="float: right">
            <table>
                $donate_goals_userbits
            </table>
        <span class="smallfont"><a href="$vboptions[bburl]/alldonors.php">View All Donors</a></span><hr />
    </td>
</tr>
</if>
    <tr>
        <td class="$getbgrow" align="center"><a href="$vboptions[bburl]/donate.php"><img src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/x-click-butcc-donate.gif" border="0"></a>
        </td>
    </tr>
<br />

<hr />

 <tr>
    <td class="$getbgrow" align="center">$title<br />
        <img src="$vboptions[bburl]/includes/pp_image.php?fill=$vboptions[bar_fill_color]&border=$vboptions[bar_border_color]&background=$vboptions[bar_background_color]&percentage=$percentage&width=$vboptions[bar_width]&height=$vboptions[bar_height]">
        <br />
        $percentage% of goal has been donated
        <br />
        <br />
        We have collected a total of <if condition="$vboptions['base_currency'] == 'USD' OR $vboptions['base_currency'] == 'AUD' OR $vboptions['base_currency'] == 'CAD'">$<else /><if condition="$vboptions['base_currency'] == 'EUR'">?<else /><if condition="$vboptions['base_currency'] == 'GBP'">?<else /><if condition="$vboptions['base_currency'] == 'JPY'">?</if></if></if></if>$goal_total_formatted
        <br />
        in donations towards our goal of <if condition="$vboptions['base_currency'] == 'USD' OR $vboptions['base_currency'] == 'AUD' OR $vboptions['base_currency'] == 'CAD'">$<else /><if condition="$vboptions['base_currency'] == 'EUR'">?<else /><if condition="$vboptions['base_currency'] == 'GBP'">?<else /><if condition="$vboptions['base_currency'] == 'JPY'">?</if></if></if></if>$amount_formatted.
    </td>
</tr>

<hr />

<if condition="$show_as_donor == '1'">
    <tr>
        <td>$donor_username</td>
        <td><if condition="$vboptions['base_currency'] == 'USD' OR $vboptions['base_currency'] == 'AUD' OR $vboptions['base_currency'] == 'CAD'">$<else /><if condition="$vboptions['base_currency'] == 'EUR'">?<else /><if condition="$vboptions['base_currency'] == 'GBP'">?<else /><if condition="$vboptions['base_currency'] == 'JPY'">?</if></if></if></if>$user_total</td>
    </tr>
</if>

davidw · #**340** 11-01-2005, 02:28 PM

variables I'm unsure about on what is supposed to be used (or even where some go):

donations_top_donor
$donate_goals_userbits
donations_last_donor
$donate_goals_userbits
$goal_total_formatted
$amount_formatted
$user_total

divided_by_fear · #**341** 11-01-2005, 02:42 PM

i had to remove this cause when i looked at my member.php page it had it messed up major... the Last Activity: Today was all messed up along the side... in the member template it seemed to have 2 of the same codes back to back

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