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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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I figured it out I think, but I have to now figure out the work around....gimme abit to fix the issue. And btw, I'm running cpanel, and my error logs show nothing for pp_image.php... Here's what's happening though, pp_image.php send a header telling the browser what type of image it is outputting to the donation script for the bar graph (in this case a .PNG file). But it is called AFTER global.php is called, therefore, the headers have alredy been sent for the system. Here's my question to you, what version of PHP is your server running? |
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Please, everyone, DL this interrim bug fix file to ppverify.php. It addresses a missing single quote preventing proper posting of the donors to the database.
This should fix a few problems...just unzip and upload to your server overwriting the old one. It goes in ./ppverify.php *kicks back to wait and see what happens...* |
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Man Oh Man!!
I just installed 1.07 - I got all the way to the end and all seemed well then BANG - it brought my whole site down! The error I received was as follows: Code:
Database error in vBulletin 3.0.6: Invalid SQL: SELECT donor.userid, donor.total, user.username FROM vb3_donation_donators AS donor LEFT JOIN vb3_user AS user ON(user.userid = donor.userid) WHERE donor.userid != '0' ORDER BY total DESC LIMIT 0,5 mysql error: Table database_name.vb3_donation_donators' doesn't exist mysql error number: 1146 Date: Thursday 30th of June 2005 05:08:59 AM Script: http://www.xpmediacentre.com.au/ Referer: Username: Removed IP Address: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Why could have happened that the donations module caused such a huge disruption to my database calls? Of course I had already backed up, so I was well covered - but now - because I had to uninstall my previous version, I have no donations module at all. I'm currently getting around 25 new members and 80 to 100 new posts a day and now I'm pretty nervous about reinstalling unless you have a concrete idea about what caused it. I really need to get this back online since I'm currently getting quite a few donations coming in and all I have now is a blank page - HELP! Mike :ermm: |
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What has happened here is that you are running an older version of your donate.php file in the modules directory, don't ask me how, I don't know, but the word donator has not been in use there since 1.03. I have verified that the files in the 1.07 do not contain this error / query at all... |
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Well the user who was deleted never even made a donation. Hit me up on msn to take alook at my forums. |
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