Hi all,

I have a client who want the following - and I don't know where to look for such a system/technique.

Here's the situation:
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She has a galleri with pictures and want members to only access this after they subscribe.
She wants to have clients buy access for either 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, 12 months. The price will fluctuate depending which timeperiod they purchase.
She wants the customer AND herself to receive an email notification when they have purchased access - and in the email to the customer, it says what they have purchased and contains an URL to the gallery WITH a timelimited username/password.
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Does anyone have any sort of knowledge where this can be found - or at least just enlighten me a little bit. I'm lost and afraid I can't solve the problem for the my customer...
THANK YOU all for any sort of help you can give :-)
Soreng

I will throw this out and see if you get better answers. The images need to be in a protected directory and you need a scripted (php or other) solution that controls the usernames and passwords for that directory.

There are several options that might be tweaked to do what you want. One that works exactlty as you posted , I am not aware of.

Hi Colbyt,

Thanks very much for your quick answer. Would you happen to know of which applications would come somewhat close?

Soreng

Why not use boolean (I think that is how it is spelled), and have it ask in the php script if certain questions are true or false also I would try to make a column in the user table in phpmyadmin which says the date in this format mmddyyyy so 100589 is October 5, 1989 and compare and run a function that checks the year in the table with the expiration time in the database table and then have your script do a calculation using math.

Originally Posted by SorenG

Hi all,

I have a client who want the following - and I don't know where to look for such a system/technique.

Here's the situation:
-----------------------------------
She has a galleri with pictures and want members to only access this after they subscribe.
She wants to have clients buy access for either 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, 12 months. The price will fluctuate depending which timeperiod they purchase.
She wants the customer AND herself to receive an email notification when they have purchased access - and in the email to the customer, it says what they have purchased and contains an URL to the gallery WITH a timelimited username/password.
-----------------------------------
Does anyone have any sort of knowledge where this can be found - or at least just enlighten me a little bit. I'm lost and afraid I can't solve the problem for the my customer...
THANK YOU all for any sort of help you can give :-)
Soreng

Ok i have no clue what he is on about but its much eaiser to use unix time when saving time date('U')

i would have the order form and on successfull payment have it go to a page which adds a record to a database with user name and password and plan or time period and a expire date which you generate with date('U') + 60*60*24*30 (which works out to 30 days)

You then have a CRON job (a script which you set up to run automatically every X amount of time which goes thro and deletes all entries whcih have expired.

However you may prefer having a field which has status and it simply updates expired with a status of expired so users can easily pay again and continue using the same details

it should be a fairly simple system.

i might even be able to make it for you if i have more details.

if you are interested PM me.
Dan

Hi Dan,

I could actually be interested in having you just do this. That is, ofcourse, if you are still interested? Do you want me to email you more via your D-Blog site?

Thanks,
Soren

The structure you are looking for is the ability to have the server force a page refresh. I have never done this but I know it can be done. In your script, you need it to be able to determine how long the page has been 'in view' and then you can act accordingly.

The easiest way to do this is with a global variable for that specific web page - set it when the page first displays and get a time() hack from the server. When the page loads again (from the forced refresh) check the time() again - when enough time has passed, close the page or what ever it is you want to do.

no.


header(5, url="urll.com");

Simple.

Sorry, Dan. I'm not following you??

I think 247SiteAlert is answering a different question to the one posed in the original post.

Bit of a convoluted answer from goheadtry but essentially the best way.

When a user signs up and pays their fee a expiry date is added to their profile in the database, then each time they login, this date is checked against the current date on the server.
If it has not expired they are allowed to login, otherwise it gets rejected with a "Membership Expired" message and options to extend their membership. You can of course show each member their time left and the "extend" options whenever they login as well.

You also need to use cookies and/or sessions to verify the user is logged in when they access protected pages.
It's not a complicated process by any means and Dan has the right idea (although a CRON job might be a little OTT as you can simply check expiry on each login).

yea i didnt think of that, but then again a cron job would keep the DB organised and clear for the users who do it and never login or just leave.