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Another paid subscriptions bug?

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Restor:
Hi All,

I needed the paid feature as well and did have some spare time to look into the paypal code. Actualy the code is pretty good as far as i can see.

The issue on my install why payments did not work all was because in sandbox mode the curl test statement failed which resulted in a fallback to plain http (fsockopen) which is not really bad either btw. But the problem i uncoverred here is that the verify request is done with a non ssl request on port 80 to paypal which at least for me did not verify in the sandbox. After changing the curl test to fixed sandbox and SSL port 443 the verify works like a charm.


--- Code: ---                if (function_exists('curl_init') && $curl = curl_init('https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr'))
                {
                        // Set the post data.
                        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true);
                        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE, 0);
                        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $requestString);

                        // Fetch the data returned as a string.
                        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

                        // Fetch the data.
                        $this->return_data = curl_exec($curl);

                        // Close the session.
                        curl_close($curl);
                }
                // Otherwise good old HTTP.

--- End code ---

I did not feel like fixing the sandbox check for now, i am now testing signing up of subcriptions and recurring payments which both seems to work flawless now. And yes you do get some IPN's which are not used about the subcription, but that is because SMF does not actualy know about the existence of the recurring payment, it just adds the amount of payed time to you current payment which had the effect of extension like a recurring subcription. If you do not receive a payment it will automaticly stop the subscription as well.

I hope this helps a but in fixing this issue.

Regards,

Wazza:
Hi Restor,

Welcome too! ...great first post  :)

I will add this to the test forum later today that Krash and I have been messing with and try.

Have you still been selecting 'Allow user to auto-renew this subscription' ? with this working?

Also have you tried a live payment, not in sandbox? we were testing live with a .10c payment set up

Thank you  ;)

taysan:
FWIW I've had very little luck with auto renewing subscriptions.  Frankly even the initial subscription has been spotty in terms of confirming payment back from PayPal etc.

I'm constantly having to cross reference PayPal email addresses to my members to confirm who is subscribing but of course they aren't always the same.

At minimum having the Member Name show up in the payment transaction, as well as the bloody useless 'an error has occurred' email I get when it doesn't work (what use is getting an error message email with absolutely NO useful information in it?).

I've completely stopped promoting paid subscriptions largely because it's not worth the effort involved.

xPureEvilx:
So is this topic dead? Iam using SMF 2.0.2 and cant seem to get Paid Subs working.

Arantor:
I've never had a problem with paid subs to be honest... the big problem with this topic and similar ones is that too many people have never had a problem with it and can't reproduce it either in order to debug it.

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