Password Protected Member Site

how?

[dirkji]

Hello,

I want to make a website that is for paying members only.

Any advice on the most efficient and easy way to do that?

Kind Regards,

Dirk.

[jo1ene]

I just asked about something silmilar. The advice I got was to accept payments through palpal and set permissions for a cms driven site manually.

Then I got a suggestion to bill folks like a hosting or isp company would and again, set permissions manually. I am aware of solutions that will bill credit cards and send out confimation emails, but I havn't looked at any in detail.

I am looking into the second suggeestion as well as asking about custom PHP programming for a "subscription module" for the xaraya or mambo cms.

[frenzy77]

Hi Dirkji,
Jo1ene:)

If you don't already have a website, then you may look into buying a turnkey website. Basicly it's a pre-built website with it's own product built in. You can purchase one with almost anything you want. For example, there are some dating sites, download sites, etc.

Also, you mentioned wanting to design a website with a "paying members" type of site. There are some turnkey websites that have this already built in or you can add this to the site i believe.

Anyways, if you like, let me know and i can sticky mail you info. This is the easiest way to do this. I am personally going to purchase a turnkey website as soon as i first finish the SEO for the site.(links, kw, etc.)

[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 1:54 pm (utc) on April 30, 2005]

[FourDegreez]

Build your own site and flag paying members' accounts, then check for this flag when a request comes in for a premium area. On my site, I've got an "isPremium()" method on my session that I check to determine if the member can access premium content.