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Farewell

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I announce that I cease all development and activity in the programming universe indefinitely. My career has reached the turning point I was not expecting for at least another year, leaving me highly off guard and without laid-out plans for this hobby's continuity. I have begun a 5-year residency program in Neurosurgery which is clearly not compatible, time-wise, with programming.

I gave in all my passion for developing, and you gave me back your loyalty and trust, even when I did not deserve that much. Now it is the time for payback. I release all my present and past work as Open Source software, in the hope some talented developer will continue maintaining and expanding my vision of a modern, sleek forum software. The intrinsic flexibility of MyBB is the true hidden gem of an otherwise outdated codebase; I do hope the project can continue and be updated complying to the latest coding standards.

I hereby thank Euan, kawaii, andrewjs18, Ben, Matt, Omar G., effone, Eric J., Devilshakerz, Wildcard, JordanMussi and all the other team members I have had the opportunity to work with when I was a MyBB team member. I thank Tomm M, my mentor, who inspired me to pick up coding with his piece-of-art plugins. And finally, I thank all of you MyBBoost subscribers who have helped me getting through my toughest university years economically.

Yours sincerely, Filippo

BankPipe development

14 May 2018 Edited
#1

Upcoming version checklist


CROSS MARK request refund from within the UCP, accept or deny refunds from within the ACP
CROSS MARK include required fields in PM. Requested by @andrewjs18
CROSS MARK add separate module for notifications. Requested by @andrewjs18 in order confirmation pm/email changes
CROSS MARK buy Newpoints as items. Requested by @ProX in Newpoints and Bankpipe
CROSS MARK user-defined variable amount for subscriptions. Requested by @RocketFoot in User specified donation amount
CROSS MARK Hide Bankpipe on ACP for other admin. Requested by @Dr.Jeet
CROSS MARK filter by item in ACP. Requested by @Dr.Jeet
CROSS MARK Removal of one item from cart show You currently have no items in your shopping cart. Reported by @Dr.Jeet

WARNING SIGN There is no ETA. Please refrain to ask when the new version is out. The checklist might not be emptied before a new version is released. A WHITE HEAVY CHECK MARK mark indicates the item has been implemented and/or fixed.
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Shade 23 Nov 2019
#41
BankPipe is not really equipped for physical items. Such feature would require shipping and billing informations being logged, other than a dedicated module in the ACP to keep track of purchases, waybills, etc.. I'd advise against selling physical goods with BankPipe and stick to digital.
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ProX 23 Nov 2019
#42
As for newpoints as this will be a new module, can that module have a separated page where only credits packs will be added (just for better ordering) Eg newpoints_bankpipe.php
RocketFoot 23 Nov 2019
#43
Question about gifting...can a member use the gift option as often as they wish...will the package purchase button reset after purchasing a gift so they can do it again at a later date?
Shade 23 Nov 2019
#44
Gifted payments belong to gifted users, despite the purchase recap can be seen by donors only. This model allows for donors to buy the same item indefinitely.

Note that if you copy bankpipe_subscriptions_subscription into bankpipe_subscriptions_subscription_purchased, any user can buy the same subscription over and over again. There is no limit over the amount of items an user can buy, but it's very convenient to show a different template when an user has already bought a subscription IMHO.
RocketFoot 23 Nov 2019 Edited
#45
Yeah, I tested with a test account and I was not able re-purchase the subscription level that I am already at in order to gift it to another member. Would it be better to change templates as suggested above or should I add a subscription package title GIFT SUB that members could buy indefinitely and gift as often as they wish? (My users usually gift the same package so I would only need 1 special gift package)
Shade 23 Nov 2019
#46
Changing the template is best IMHO.
day-day 24 Nov 2019 Edited
#47
Not sure if this is already added, but what about automatically superscribing a user to Bankpipe when it is purchased via Newpoints My Subscriptions plugin?

Also, turn the Checkout button -> Gift button after purchase? I think that'd be pretty useful since there's a gifting feature enabled :)
Shade 24 Nov 2019
#48
You can already turn buttons to whatever you like by editing bankpipe_subscriptions_subscription_purchased template.

As for the first request, I’m not sure I understand correctly, but Newpoints is already planned to be integrated (buy coins with real money).
ProX 24 Nov 2019 Edited
#49
As for the first request, I’m not sure I understand correctly, but Newpoints is already planned to be integrated (buy coins with real money).
Shade (24 Nov 2019)
If this is about my post, I was pointing out about a separated page from bankpipe.php where newpoints packages will be shown. Because it will mess up layouts of subscriptions and those for newpoints.

Or just a simple get request for bankpipe.php?buy=newpoints
Shade 24 Nov 2019
#50
Yes, ideally a dedicated page for each module will be available.
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