[Opensim-users] OpenSim PayPal Money Module

[Snoopy Pfeffer]

I have changed the name of the git repository to "Mod-PayPal".

The new url is:  http://github.com/SnoopyPfeffer/Mod-PayPal

Snoopy




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From: "Frisby, Adam" <adam at deepthink.com.au>
To: "opensim-users at lists.berlios.de" <opensim-users at lists.berlios.de>
Sent: Sat, November 14, 2009 12:13:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Opensim-users] OpenSim PayPal Money Module

 
I’m really happy to see these improvements being done – and hopefully
I can incorporate them back into the original version once they have been
properly tested.
 
I do have one minor request though – could you rename this version
to avoid any confusion between the two? (plus I’ve got some trademark concerns
about the deepthink name being used by an outside group)
 
Thanks!,
 
Adam
 
From:opensim-users-bounces at lists.berlios.de
[mailto:opensim-users-bounces at lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of Snoopy
Pfeffer
Sent: Friday, 13 November 2009 9:25 AM
To: opensim-users at lists.berlios.de
Subject: [Opensim-users] OpenSim PayPal Money Module
 
Hello everyone

Everybody interested, can have a look at the git branch of Adam Frisby's PayPal
money module, that I have created:
    http://github.com/SnoopyPfeffer/DTL-PayPal

I have implemented the following functional extensions and bug fixes:
- User2User pay, User2Object pay, User2Object purchases and User2Land purchases
work properly, now
- User2User payments are confirmed with instant messages to senders and
receivers
- Support for group owned objects and land can be enabled (default: off);
requirement: PayPal email accounts have to be defined per group
- Underscores in email addresses do not cause error messages during opensim
startup anymore
- Object and land purchases for US$ 0 do not initiate a PayPal transaction
anymore
- Object purchases properly transfer the purchased contents to the buyer, now
- User email addresses are loaded from the local ini file; invalid email
adresses are ignored, but loading is not aborted anymore
- User email addresses can also be fetched from the Users grid service, if that
feature is enabled (default: off); fetched email addresses are cached by the
region server until region restart; local email addresses always take
precedence, to ensure an acceptable level of security
- Locally defined user email addresses should be used for all users that
receive bigger amounts of money within a region (i.e. shop owners); the reason
is the much higher security, if these email addresses are not fetched from the
Users grid service; beside that it is possible to locally use a special PalPal
micropayment account for all shop transactions to save fees, instead of a
standard PayPal account used elsewhere
- Group email addresses can be defined per group UUID in the local ini file to
support group owned objects and land as mentioned before
- Non existent user or group email addresses are handled by showing warning
messages, instead of error messages for crashed code
- Added start and success log messages for all kinds of PayPal transactions
- Rounding problems made it impossible to pay certain amounts (like US$ 1.23);
now all amounts work and are displayed nicely

Interesting findings:
- PayPal can send money to all email accounts, even to email accounts not
registered at PayPal yet; thus it is not necessary to handle that case
- PayPal micropayment accounts are not available in all countries worldwide

The following still needs to be done:
- Web pages that are shown after successful or cancelled PayPal transactions
- Locking for PayPal transactions while buying land or original objects
- Events or functions that allow to lock vendors while a PayPal transaction is
in progress
- Too small amounts that do not cover the PayPal transaction fees produce a misleading error message on the PayPal web page; maybe
it would be good to be able to define a minimum amount globally and/or per
email address to avoid that
- It would be good if a scripter using llGiveMoney gets a warning message, that
this function is not supported by the PayPal money module
- User2User payments are confirmed with instant messages to the sender and
receiver of money, but only if these users are online at that time; maybe it is
possible to improve that, so that even users offline get such confirmation
messages as stored offline messages

Installation of the PayPal money module:
- Install the addon-modules/dtl-paypal under OpenSim/Region/OptionalModules/
- Install the files for bin dir in the OpenSim bin folder
- Add the addtional config settings in config-include in bin/OpenSim.ini
- After that compile OpenSim

Snoopy


      
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