A Much Needed RANT!!!!!

[FSGDAG]

So, due to work and a couple of people in my family having illnesses, its been hard for me to login to my directories lately. There are a bunch of validations I need to do and other maintenance.

So I decided to login to my largest directory first. Low and behold I found 22 links in the 'suspended' column. Now I'm puzzled. I've never had 22 people submit a Premium or Sponsored listing and NOT pay. I login to Paypal and 2CO to make sure that I'm not losing my mind and just as I thought, none of those were ever paid for.

I'm now thinking something must be wrong with the 'add' process... And there sure is!!! WHEN I UPGRADED IT RESET ALL OF THE PAYMENT MODs BACK TO THE DEFAULTS!!! Now I'm banging my head against the wall!!! I pretty much just lost 22 paid links because I didn't go back in and configure the payment mods again correctly.

Wait... It gets worse....

I log into the other 4 only to find the EXACT same thing! In total I probably lost roughly 40 paid listings in the last month to month and a half.

There's two lessons here to be learned. If you upgrade your NOT done the upgrade until you reconfigure the payment mods!!! The other lesson is that the payment mods should be housed in the DB, not in individual files. This would eliminate the need to having to reconfigure them every time a backup is done.

Dody, I believe this should be on the HIGH priority list. I'm adding it as a suggestion in the Project Tools area, but I beg of you... Please find a way where our payment settings wont get overwritten with each and every upgrade.

[John Milton]

I just read this post and forward know to dody, he will answer shortly here.

[FSGDAG]

Thanks John!! I really think integrating the payment gateway configurations into the DB will go along way for all of us!

[EBIZ]

Happend me that as well

Exact same thing except I didnt figure it out for about a month

[FSGDAG]

I'm hoping this wont go unforgotten!!! I just checked the Project Tools and see its still not assigned to anyone or accepted.

[dody]

I forgot to tell you that I marked the project tool a few days ago and also implemented it for October release. You can also check nicecoder blog.

[FSGDAG]

Thanks Dody! I appreciate that!