By magneteye on
I am hoping someone can help me determine if Drupal can do what I need.
Site will be like a newsletter or magazine with subscriptions to view content. I want the content to be searchable with or without a subscription. If user does not have access, they see a preview of the content, then have the option to subscribe on a yearly basis to access everything from that point on, also I want a user to have an option to purchase just one single issue/article at a time. So there would be multiple ways to purchase and view content.
Hope I am making sense here. Something similar for example is www.sciencedirect.com. You can preview and purchase a single article.
Any pointers or help is much appreciated!
Thanks,
Matt
Comments
It's possible
You want to first look at the two e-commerce packages, Ubercart and Ecommerce. Both of these packages have the facility to allow users to purchase a role. In your case this role will have access to all of the articles.
I haven't seen purchasing individual articles, but I'm sure that someone has attempted that before :)
Showing previews for content to anonymous users and then having the full article only available to certain roles can be a little complicated because these two pieces both share the same node id. One solution that was used on a project I worked on was to write a custom module to perform searches on the privileged content directly from the database because of the access control issues involved.
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the http://drupal.org/project/premium module might be of use-- i'm not sure how it handles the search index though.
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