Add-On Releases - Donation Progress Bar-Forumhome

What Donations Bar Is:
It is a simple way for Admins to show a donation progress bar on their forum home page with Admin set goals and donations recieved. Because the donation bar is a stand alone it can be utilized with any donation system your using. It adds more visability of your site donation goal requirements and donation button to your members for hopefully more through put in donations.

Can Be Used With:

• Any paypal/donate system.
• PayPal Easy Donate - vB 3.6
  
• Cyb Paypal donate
  Will auto update donor bar now, but must be set in donation bar options.
• Vb Subscriptions (Can be used as manual or auto updating)

This script adds:

1. 3 Plugins
2. 1 Template

Installation:

1. Import the product-donationbar.xml through admin cp
2. If you use Cyb-Paypal mod you must select it in vboptions->Donation Bar->Cyb-paypal set to yes.
3. If you use Vb subrcriptions you must select it in vboptions

Post Installation:
Make sure when entering the form code for your Paypal button the links are formated as follows:

<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
 <input type="hidden" name="business"
      value="sample@sample.com">
                             <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/x-click-butcc-donate.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"></form>

If your using this mod in 3.6.10 or higher and your sending people directly to paypal instead of your donation page from the button you need to add the below or you will recieve the security token error on clicking the button

<input type="hidden" name="securitytoken" value="$bbuserinfo[securitytoken]" />

If you do not use this format for the links your button will not show. Please do not copy and past my info above you must fo to your Paypal account and create a button with your account code and email info.
If you wish instead of a paypal button link you can put the URL to your donation page.

Update Version:

• 1.00 First Realease
• 1.01 updated template to be more in line with default vbulletin style.
• 1.02 Added donation bar color to change to green when 100% or greater donations met.
  Also added version check.
• 1.03 Fixed the color of the bar to not show small piece of red bar on left. Edited donorbar
  template to fix broken donor bar box.
• 1.04 Added Cyb-paypal intergration in admincp donation bar options. Thanks goes to AWJUNKIES for the adddition.
• 1.0.5 Fixed XHTML missing tag. Added ability to enter vbsubscription amount through Admincp. Bar will display only 100% now and once reached will post a thank you below donor button if you have a thank you message set. Fixed the donorbar template to be in the template group and not part of vbulletin so updating updates the template.
• 1.0.6 Added Auto updating of the donor bar for Vb paid subscriptions
• 1.0.7 Added option for auto insert of the donation bar under navbar, you can now float the donation bar if you are using chatbox, option for selection of usergroups able to see donor bar, You have option to enter which page to display donation bar on or show on all pages. General code clean-up.
• 1.0.8 Fixed issue with template not being cached. Added ability to change currency symbol from admincp.
• 1.1.0 Added setting in admincp for setting goal period

Upgrading Instructions:

When upgrading to Version 1.0.7 please make sure you remove the
FORUMHOME template edit as its no longer required. Failure to do so will produce two donor bars on forum index page.

IMPORTANT: If updating from an earlier version than 1.0.5 you must uninstall the earlier version and delete the old donorbar template before importing the new XML file.

Go to your Admincp->Plugin&Products->Manage products->Add/Import Product make sure you select overwrite.

Please report any and all bugs within this thread with as much detail as possible.

Click Mark as Installed for support and so that you will be notified instantly upon any major updates.

CMPS Add On:
CMPS Donation Bar Add on

Thanks to AWJUNKIES for adding the integration of Cyb-paypal to the donor bar mod.

[sinisterpain]

Originally Posted by mrahul

can this be used with out cyb & paypal easy donate, I want to just continue with my paid subscriptions page.
& will this work on 3.6.4 ?

I have not tested it with 3.6.4 but it should work and yes the donor bar is a stand alone so it can be used with any paypal mod.

[VHLinks]

I am using it on 3.6.4 just fine. And actually I tweaked it a bit to work with how I have my site news, etc. I simplified it a bit, I don't need as much info as most of you probably do. Thanks very much!

How I am using it if anyone is interested.
http://www.jamtothis.com

[sinisterpain]

Please click install so you will get all update notifications.

[yaoren]

total idiot here... in the "Post Installations" section...what exactly do I change in there? Is it the bits in red?
I have cyb paypal installed but I was using a 3rd party "donations progress bar" so I took that code out and added yours in. the bar is showing along with the donate button but when I click on it, it's just the paypal screen, it's not showing my site name or where it's being sent to... obviously I haven't put my info in so that's why i'm asking about the red text. Sorry for being such a dweeb

**Installed**

[mrahul]

Originally Posted by sinisterpain

I have not tested it with 3.6.4 but it should work and yes the donor bar is a stand alone so it can be used with any paypal mod.

I am not using any mods I meant the paid subscription page for accepting donations.
So, does this work with out any additional mod or do I need to have any mod to get it to work ?

Originally Posted by VHLinks

I am using it on 3.6.4 just fine. And actually I tweaked it a bit to work with how I have my site news, etc. I simplified it a bit, I don't need as much info as most of you probably do. Thanks very much!

How I am using it if anyone is interested.

Do u use any other hack to receive paypal donations ? & is tweaking needed just as u made it to get it below & etc.. or just to get it work u had to tweak ?

[sinisterpain]

Originally Posted by yaoren

total idiot here... in the "Post Installations" section...what exactly do I change in there? Is it the bits in red?
I have cyb paypal installed but I was using a 3rd party "donations progress bar" so I took that code out and added yours in. the bar is showing along with the donate button but when I click on it, it's just the paypal screen, it's not showing my site name or where it's being sent to... obviously I haven't put my info in so that's why i'm asking about the red text. Sorry for being such a dweeb

**Installed**

The reason I put the link in red is to ensure that I made it clear how the links need to be formated. What you should do is go to your paypal account create your own button and it will give you the relevant code to put in the mod with your paypal info. As I click on your button now it goes to paypal but not your specific site paypal page. You need to enter your paypal email info and any other info that you wish. My post information above is only an example of how the link should be formated (highlighted in red).

Sorry for being such a dweeb

You should never feel that way about asking a question. We can never learn without them.

[sinisterpain]

Originally Posted by mrahul

I am not using any mods I meant the paid subscription page for accepting donations.
So, does this work with out any additional mod or do I need to have any mod to get it to work ?




Do u use any other hack to receive paypal donations ? & is tweaking needed just as u made it to get it below & etc.. or just to get it work u had to tweak ?

It will work with any donation system you are using. It does not require any other mod.

[sinisterpain]

Update the template to be more in line with default vbulletin style.

[yaoren]

I got a new logo from paypal and installed it on the progress bar but when I click on it, it just opens up a pop up window with information about paypal. I had a look in my paypal account but couldn't see anything to direct the link towards my own paypal page. Obviously i'm not doing something right... can you help me get it sorted please?

**updated**

UPDATE
Never mind, I got it solved

[RaceJunkie]

Question.

Does this bar update automatically when someone makes a donation?