Fix for phplb for payment processors.

Its already been given out for phpld and here is the fix for phplb.

Many bidding owners do not accept some type of links due to fear of their payment processors while some do accept them

Anyways here is the fix:

Goto: {your_root_folder}/tpl/{your_template_folder}/bid.tpl

Edit the following:

From:

	<input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Bid for {link_url} on {site_name}">

PHP:

To:

	<input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Bid for Link {link_id} on {site_name}">

PHP:

{site_name} can be manually written too.

This will show up in your payment processor the link id of the url submitted and not the link submitted.

I have tested it on Bams Bidding Web Directory and it seemed to give no problem, though you may also test it your end before use

 

yeh adi told me about this few days back ...

 

If you wanna know which site you submitted or owner wants to show his site in paypal,

You can do the following:

replace {site_name} by {site_url}

But then your payment processor knows your website.

 

so did i tell hummmmmm... LOL

 

I changed that part to something manually on http://www.livelykeywords.com/ but things no long worked until I changed it back.

Now I have a solution,thanks Sunny!

 

Be very careful about removing the {link_url} variable in older versions of phpLB, this will break the IPN. See this thread for details.

PS: humm, your site is broken on the return from PayPal.

It gives me this as my link...

blogaboutmysite.com/bidforlinks/link/link/38.html

but should be...

blogaboutmysite.com/bidforlinks/link/38.html

 

I am looking into this again. I will work on the some testing with the IPN.

About the error you pointed out, its from a long time I am unable to find a solution for this.

 

i just increased my bid sunny, seems you have fixed all errors and IPN is working too

 

Thanks for the 'heads up' Sunny real cool

 

I am glad its worked for you guys and that you are happy with the mod.

Thanks silky for submitting a bid and pointing out the possible error and thanks aditya for making a bid increment after I corrected my errors.

So as of now, I have tested the mod and it seems to be work fine with latest phplb version.

 

Another good heads-up. Thanks for sharing this with us.