By CraftyDevon on

Hello All,
Yet another question. :)

How would you set up a paid membership system that self-checks memberships? Let me show a workflow

--Visitor visits site
-Visitor enters login information, hit's Log In
--System checks user's sign up date and expiration date
-If User's subscription is current, the user is allowed to sign in
--If User's subscription is expired, they are directed to a renewal screen.

From the searching I've done, it looks as if Ubercart is going to be the primary choice, however I would enjoy looking for alternatives. Also, if you know of a guide/tutorial for a system like this please do share the link :)

And an extremely random question: In CCK, when it talks about "number of values" in the configurations, what does that mean?
Thanks
Devon

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

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jamesialford’s picture

jamesialford commented

I use Ubercart and the uc_subscription module for completing this.

This is the doc I worked off of. http://www.ubercart.org/contrib/2851 I used Ubercart2 and still got it to work.

Hope this helps you

James

CraftyDevon’s picture

CraftyDevon commented

Hey,
Thanks for the tip, are you using Drupal 6 or 5? Most of what I saw on the comments on that page seemed to pertain to Drupal 5.

Could you provide a direct link to the module? I searched the site and couldn't find one.

Any other solutions?

Thanks!

vm’s picture

vm commented

http://drupal.org/project/ubercart

New production sites should use Drupal 6.x. Drupal 5.x will be sunset when Drupal 7.x is released which isn't that far off relatively speaking. When Drupal 5.x is sunset support for it will wane as users adopt and build on Drupal 6 and 7

jamesialford’s picture

jamesialford commented

I am using Drupal 6 and Ubercart 2. Most of the docs on this are strait forward. I did need to do a liitle of configuration, not hard.

James

zeezhao’s picture

zeezhao commented

You can also achieve this using the "role" feature attached to a product in ubercart 2 with drupal 6.

What you do is:
- creat a drupal role called, for instance, "premium"
- create a product called for instance "Buy Subscription", and on the "Features" tab of this product you can configure it to grant "premium" role on purchase. Expiration date is also configurable.
- One user pruchases the susbscription, and is paid for etc, the user gets granted the "premium" role.
- all content available to premium role then becomes available to user, until expiration date.

Hope this helps.