Donations Support

[Michael.J]

Help fund your forum with donations, setup goals and track member donations. Offer rewards for members donating.

Feature List:

• Option to automatically demote a member back to his original member group x days after there donation.
• Option to mark goals as achieved and remove them from listing after they have reached 100% donations.
• Option to create goals that are continuous and have no set end date.
• RSS feeds for latest donations and latest goals listings.
• Ability to track the individual status of each goal as members choose to donate to there preferred goals.
• Setup fixed donation amounts a member can donate or let the member choose the amount. This includes a minimum donation amount allowed.
• Group permissions for who can view the donation tracker, view goals, view donations and for who can donate.
• All payment data is logged including successful and unsuccessful attempts on the payment function.
• New discussion topic created for each new successful donation.
• Ability to track the top donors in the view top donors page.
• Payment gateways included are: Paypal, Skrill, Payza (Alert Pay), Offline Payments and Paymentwall.

[Lucas von Mecheln]

Would it be possible to implement a feature that lets a member donate to give another member the status? Sort of like Reddit's gilding system. They would be able to donate say, $1 to show appreciation to a post another user made, and that would give that user the selected group for an X amount of time.

Cheers!

[Michael.J]

Would it be possible to implement a feature that lets a member donate to give another member the status?

Not in the current version but I will see what can be done in the future as that's quite a good idea.

[Michael.J]

Donations app has been updated with 5 more bug fixes. See bug reports here.

[craigf136]

I have a couple of bugs with the Donation Mike, the text in the donations box for the donations goals sidebar appears to be getting cut off.

This is what I have

This is what is displayed.

Happens on our main theme as well

Secondly, I have the donation goals sidebar active on the forum, however, if I want to activate this on another page I can but it lists all goals (even when they are set to not to be featured, private goals etc). I cannot select from the drop down to choose a specific goal.

 

Hopefully you can reproduce but if you need further info, let me know.

 

 

Edited July 3, 2015 by craigf136

[Michael.J]

I have a couple of bugs with the Donation Mike, the text in the donations box for the donations goals sidebar appears to be getting cut off.

Secondly, I have the donation goals sidebar active on the forum, however, if I want to activate this on another page I can but it lists all goals (even when they are set to not to be featured, private goals etc). I cannot select from the drop down to choose a specific goal.

That's actually intended but I will log a bug report to remove that for single widget goals as you wouldn't really need a truncate in that case.

Just to confirm on the drop down issue, you can't actually select anything when you click that drop down? Doesn't appear or just too hard to select a goal with just a long list?

[craigf136]

Thanks Mike, 

With the second issue, nothing can be selected from the drop down (i.e. the drop down doesn't happen).

Edited July 6, 2015 by craigf136

[Michael.J]

With the second issue, nothing can be selected from the drop down (i.e. the drop down doesn't happen).

Can I have acp access to this forum? Seems weird it would limit the amount of options available.

[Greg W]

Ooops, posted this in the wrong topic earlier

Is it possible for me to edit the donation box in the side bar in IPS4?

Also, when setting up the widget in the side bar, if I click the edit button, nothing happens

I want to change the button to an image if possible & also remove the donation amount from that box so that it can be filled in on the next page?

[Michael.J]

Ooops, posted this in the wrong topic earlier

Is it possible for me to edit the donation box in the side bar in IPS4?

Also, when setting up the widget in the side bar, if I click the edit button, nothing happens

I want to change the button to an image if possible & also remove the donation amount from that box so that it can be filled in on the next page?

That's a bit more difficult now as that widget uses the form helper to build the donation form instead of raw html code you can modify from the template bit. Any changes need to be applied to the widget file directly now.

The edit button being there is a bug which I've logged a bug report for. And I will be very likely removing the amount option from the widget next version due to some conflicts with the next page.

[craigf136]

Can I have acp access to this forum? Seems weird it would limit the amount of options available.

Sure thing Mike, I'll drop you a PM.

[Greg W]

That's a bit more difficult now as that widget uses the form helper to build the donation form instead of raw html code you can modify from the template bit. Any changes need to be applied to the widget file directly now.

The edit button being there is a bug which I've logged a bug report for. And I will be very likely removing the amount option from the widget next version due to some conflicts with the next page.

I am not sure of how others think, but for me, a little bit of text which I can edit and a Donate button is perfect.

If I can play around with the button to make it stand out it will be perfect.

 

[Michael.J]

Sure thing Mike, I'll drop you a PM.

Thanks, just a forewarning that there may be a delay until I can address this.

I am not sure of how others think, but for me, a little bit of text which I can edit and a Donate button is perfect.

If I can play around with the button to make it stand out it will be perfect.

1. Amount field will be removed next version but if you can't wait, I can put together some edits for you to do this in the meantime.

2. If you want to edit the text, edit the language string "block_donateDonate_text" in your admin cp.

3. I've just looked into the possibility of adding an image button instead and it does look like this is possible. Do you have an image in mind that I can test it out with?

[Greg W]

Thanks, just a forewarning that there may be a delay until I can address this.

1. Amount field will be removed next version but if you can't wait, I can put together some edits for you to do this in the meantime.

2. If you want to edit the text, edit the language string "block_donateDonate_text" in your admin cp.

3. I've just looked into the possibility of adding an image button instead and it does look like this is possible. Do you have an image in mind that I can test it out with?

1 - Great, will look forward to the update

2 - Thanks for that, I will do it when I get back later

3 - Haven't got a specific  image really as I would probably like to be able to have different images in different skins if it was possible, but something like this would be a start

(But not as big)

[Michael.J]

3 - Haven't got a specific  image really as I would probably like to be able to have different images in different skins if it was possible, but something like this would be a start

Try this edit and let me know how you go. Open applications/donate/widgets/donateDonate.php

Find:

$form->class = 'ipsForm_noLabels ipsForm_fullWidth ipsPad';

Add BELOW:

$form->actionButtons = array( '<input type="image" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donate_LG.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!">' );

Save. Now just alter the img url or text to what you want.

[Greg W]

Try this edit and let me know how you go. Open applications/donate/widgets/donateDonate.php

Find:

$form->class = 'ipsForm_noLabels ipsForm_fullWidth ipsPad';

Add BELOW:

$form->actionButtons = array( '<input type="image" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donate_LG.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!">' );

Save. Now just alter the img url or text to what you want.

Nearly perfect, thank you very much

How can I centralise the image in the side bar?

Edited July 10, 2015 by Greg W

[Michael.J]

Nearly perfect, thank you very much

How can I centralise the image in the side bar?

Try centralizing the form. i.e.

$form->class = 'ipsForm_noLabels ipsForm_fullWidth ipsPad ipsType_center';

 

[Michael.J]

I've just updated the Donations app with 6 more small bug fixes, see bug reports here. Also included is the introduction of a donor badge for the topic view.

[365636_1415822525]

I have an issue where goals are still showing even though they are no longer enabled.

[Michael.J]

I have an issue where goals are still showing even though they are no longer enabled.

1. Showing on the main page, view goals page or in the goal widget?

2. Have they been disabled by an end time, target reached or physically disabled?

[365636_1415822525]

1. Showing on the main page, view goals page or in the goal widget?

2. Have they been disabled by an end time, target reached or physically disabled?

Hi Mike,

Thanks for responding so quickly.

1. Completed goals are still showing both on the goals page and within the widget.
2. I've tried ending by all three and can't get them to disappear.

[Michael.J]

1. I've tried ending by all three and can't get them to disappear.

Could you just clarify this a bit more? Your using the Enable/Disable option specifically?

[365636_1415822525]

I've set them to disabled as well and they still show

[Michael.J]

I've set them to disabled as well and they still show

I've logged a bug report for this and will take a look and see what's happening. New version shouldn't be too long away but if you do need an immediate fix I'll see if I can put together a patch you can use in the meantime.

[365636_1415822525]

Happy to wait if a new release is not far off. Many thanks.