Miscellaneous Hacks - [Chris] Donations with IPN Support

Donations with IPN Support
by ChrisTERiS

Please note that from
11 Aug 2013
you can get support only in my site
http://www.teriakis.com

Maybe you'll think why another addon for Donations. Well its true that there are another 2 (maybe 3) addons for donations, but as I know none of them supports:

1. Instant Payment Notifications
2. Multi level Goals

Just for this reason and as I wanted to use it for my site I coded this addon. I can't say that is the flagship on his category, but it has exactly what I want. Check the features below and if you like them, then download and use it.

1.- Features

1. Unlimited level of Goals (Categories). In my case it's useful as I want to have a goal for each of my mods, so I wanted to have 3 root categories for vB3, vB4, vB5 etc.
2. Instant Payment Notification. You don't need anymore to manually mark donations as paid.
3. Auto generates donation forms for:
   1. Forum Sidebar: Generates, Installs and Activates the form !!
   2. CMS Widget: Generates and Installs it. The only that you've to do is to add it on your Layout.
   3. On Screen: This is very useful as it shows the code on the screen where you can copy and paste it in any page (eg to create vBadvanced block). You can add this code even in pages out of your vB directory as it has the full url for submission.
4. You can Manually add/edit/delete Donations
5. There is a "My Donations" menu in UserCP
6. Total donations (amount) appears at postbit.

2.- Installation

1. Download and unpack the file
2. Open with a text editor the file: donations_paypal.php and modify line 9 setting the full path (server path) to the file donations/paypallog.txt
3. Save the file and upload all the files from upload/ folder to your vB installation.
4. CMOD 666 the file donations/paypallog.txt (it writes only the errors).
5. Login to AdminCp and set the Donations-> General Settings
6. Give a look at PM and Page Options in case that you want to change the predefinied messages
7. Add you Goals
8. ....and last create your forms for Forum sidebar or CMS page

3.- Attention

I don't need a seperate page for donations that's why you'll not find a dedicate page for it. If you want I can add such a page with some toys like "Latest donations", "Top Donors" etc. For my own use I'll add tomorrow (and then I'll release it here) a block generator which will works just like the donation form, but showing data like "Top Donors" etc. Everything should be automatic.

4.- Copyright

It's frustating to write always "Don't remove my copyright". It became so boring so I decided to place a switch on the options. If you think that my name is so ugly, just turn it off and it will gone.

All the best
Chris

[rgreene1971]

Can this be set up to work with google check out? Frankly I hate paypal and have many members who refuse to use paypal.

*note - I just registered on your site and was told I was banned. LOL

[ProFifaLeagues]

Looking like another great mod Chris thank you,Keep up the great work mate!

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by rgreene1971

Can this be set up to work with google check out? Frankly I hate paypal and have many members who refuse to use paypal.

*note - I just registered on your site and was told I was banned. LOL

Looking it from the code side is easy to add Google checkout plus 2CO as I've already the code from another plugin. What is not yet clear is if you can use it. Do they accept donations for payments or only payments for products? Unless if they have changed their rules, 2CO does not allows to use it for donations.

Chris
PS: I replied by email for your issue in my site.

[rgreene1971]

I signed p to google and set up donations as digital software donation

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by rgreene1971

I signed p to google and set up donations as digital software donation

Ok. Later on today I'll release an update with some additions and I'll try to include Google checkout. Please note that I have no merchant account with Google so I can't test it, but I have it in my shop addon and works fine.

Chris

[mitch84]

hi, it's difficult for add a payment site ( like payza.com or moneybookers)? ths

[rgreene1971]

Originally Posted by ChrisTERiS

Ok. Later on today I'll release an update with some additions and I'll try to include Google checkout. Please note that I have no merchant account with Google so I can't test it, but I have it in my shop addon and works fine.

Chris

Awsome, I am looking forward to testing it out

[dormopoco]

i have renamed my Admincp Folder. How to run this plugin?

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by dormopoco

i have renamed my Admincp Folder. How to run this plugin?

You'll upload the file that exists at upload/admincp/ folder to your new admin directory.