Paid Membership Access - how?

[joshlindem]

I'm looking to create a paid 'membership access' section of a website. I know how to create a "members" section of a website so that any access to pages within a certain folder will require the viewer to enter a username/password which will grant them access for the time they are on that website.

But that would be just a set of pre-set credentials. How do you do it when the member has to pay for that membership?

I can set it up so we can take payment and information from the user, but how do I take a username and password? I can have them create that prior to the purchase I'm thinking.

And than depending on the type of membership that they purchase (monthly, annually, bi-annually) how will I get it so that their account will expire at the end of their term?

I know this may be a little work to get going, but it is required and soon!

I am working in a PHP\MYSQL environment.

Thanks,
Josh

[saltedm8]

look into cms systems, i would suggest http://www.joomla.org , they have loads to plugins to choose from, you can usually find what you want, - it is a complicated system to learn, but once you do, there are virtually limitless possibilities that are easily executable

[awatson]

Seems to be there's got to be a php script out there that gets this functionality by working with a standard .htaccess authentication method. So, when the user pays some code is triggered that adds the username and password to the file. When a user's time is up or revoked or whatever, that line is deleted from the file.

[CloudedVision]

Originally Posted by awatson

Seems to be there's got to be a php script out there that gets this functionality by working with a standard .htaccess authentication method. So, when the user pays some code is triggered that adds the username and password to the file. When a user's time is up or revoked or whatever, that line is deleted from the file.

I think it would more be a database system and not use .htaccess. .htaccess authentication is mainly only used for systems that only have a few users, such as administration tools.

One of these might work: http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Script...ion/index.html

with a little bit of editing im sure you can add a payment gateway into there.

[Marc]

If you have got a basic user database, and login system... you can easily add a column to your database called "userlevel" - this will be a number.

Then at the top of the page that you only want them to see, just a simple if() statement is required to see if the user matches that number.

If you need any further assistance in doing this, say.

Cheers
Marc

[longstand]

Why not just use seperate database tables for each member type? Use a tempory database for member signing up, once you have recieved confimation they have paid the fee just transfer them from the tempory database into the relevent one!

I use this method & created a back end to manage it and all is well

[Marc]

Originally Posted by longstand

Why not just use seperate database tables for each member type? Use a tempory database for member signing up, once you have recieved confimation they have paid the fee just transfer them from the tempory database into the relevent one!

I use this method & created a back end to manage it and all is well

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