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Forum Name: Web Wiz Forums Modifications
Forum Description: Mod's and Add-on's for Web Wiz Forums.
URL: https://forums.webwiz.net/forum_posts.asp?TID=20666
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Topic: [REQ] Paid Memebrship of a forum

Posted By: Landlord-Forum
Subject: [REQ] Paid Memebrship of a forum
Date Posted: 13 July 2006 at 6:23pm

Hi all,

just wondering if anyone has ever done a paid membership of a forum or how easy it would be to integrate wwf into paypal?

i have a free forum but have an opportunity to have paid membership level that would of course give access to a further range of forums and webpages.

it would be easiest if wwf could integrate with paypal or similar so that the member would pay and then be automatically be given a status level that goes with that so they can access the extra areas of the site.

any ideas anyone?

many thanks

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Posted By: VBScript
Date Posted: 13 July 2006 at 8:58pm

It is possible to intergrate paypal ipn into the forums. The best way to do it is to give groups different permissions and people buy the group permissions.

If anyone else is interested in this I will make a mod for you.

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Posted By: VBScript
Date Posted: 14 July 2006 at 8:58am

I think I have worked out a method that can allow people to purchase membership groups.

If this goes to plan only 2 pages will be need and 1 column added to tblGroups.

But I would like to see if anyone else is interested in the mod before I start

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Posted By: Landlord-Forum
Date Posted: 14 July 2006 at 10:27am

thanks vbscript,

i hope there is someone else out there?

will your script be able to handle different membership levels? and recurring payments?

many thanks

Posted By: VBScript
Date Posted: 14 July 2006 at 10:31am

The idea I had is you add a "Cost" field to the tblGroups table.

You the have a page... This page loops through the groups table and if the cost field is not 0.00 it allow people to by membership. (The paypal button is dynamically generated).

Then you have an IPN page that paypal calls up and that will modify the Group_ID in tblAuthor to the purchased group id.

Recurring payments will be interesting. I will have to think on how cancelling a recurring payment works through IPN but it souns do-able.

[EDIT]
So you have a total of about 4 files:

The purchase button page
The IPN Page
An access database that is seperate from the main forum to log transactions.
And a config file to hold things like connection strings to the seperate access database and other things like vendor e-mail.

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Posted By: Landlord-Forum
Date Posted: 14 July 2006 at 11:32am

i am not familier with the functions on paypal for how these payments are setup and cancelled, but i supposoe the cancellation could be done manually, it is just easier to let people buy the membership and get instant access to the paid area.

recurring payment because it would be a yearly subscription, or could be monthly i guess, i'll have to look into the paypal part and see what they offer.

is this mod to work with access, or mysql or both?

Posted By: VBScript
Date Posted: 14 July 2006 at 11:37am

You will be happy to here that I have started work on the mod.

I am hoping, and I think I am write, that on cancellation the IPN page will be called so the members group can be reset to Newbie or the chosen group.

With subscription you can choose if it should be renewed daily, weekly, monthly or years.

I currently have a page that displays the groups, the ammount it costs, how regularly the subscription has to be paid and a dynamically generated paypal subscription button.

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Posted By: Landlord-Forum
Date Posted: 14 July 2006 at 11:39am

awesome, can't wait to see it!

Posted By: VBScript
Date Posted: 14 July 2006 at 12:57pm

So far so good!! I have managed to subscribe my self to a test forum.

I upgraded from Newbie to Senior Member at a cost of �0.01 per week!!

All I need to do is:-

E-Mail notification of new subscription to customer
E-Mail notification of new subscriptions to admin.
Unsubscription management
E-Mail notification of new unsubscription to customer
E-Mail notification of new unsubscriptions to admin.

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Posted By: VBScript
Date Posted: 14 July 2006 at 1:31pm

Unsubscibing now works!! You can set a Group ID (such as 4 which is Newbie) to down-grade the user to when they unsubscribe.

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Posted By: Landlord-Forum
Date Posted: 14 July 2006 at 2:01pm

great news,

will it work on access / mysql or both?

Posted By: VBScript
Date Posted: 14 July 2006 at 2:03pm

It should work on all! Yes, mysql, access and MS SQL.

The mod currently requires 3 files and the user to add to fields to the database. At the moment it is extremely straight forward.

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Posted By: angel
Date Posted: 15 July 2006 at 2:32pm

can we see the mod working?

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soon

Posted By: VBScript
Date Posted: 15 July 2006 at 4:41pm

I intend to release it sometime later to day (GMT Time) or tomorrow. At the moment yo cannot really see it. All there is to see is the page with the buttons all the code that does the **stuff** is behind the scenes and it get executed when a user purchases a subscription

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Posted By: Demon
Date Posted: 19 July 2006 at 2:17am

Indeed, if anyone is looking for a free version of this mod, I will be making a free version.

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So Sayith the Demon.

Posted By: leiti
Date Posted: 19 July 2006 at 9:11am

Yes, I would be interessted in a free version!

Posted By: VBScript
Date Posted: 19 July 2006 at 12:17pm

Due to the fact that everyone is hell bent on getting everything for nothing the mod is now released for free.

http://www.james-r.co.uk/wwfpaypalmod.asp - http://www.james-r.co.uk/wwfpaypalmod.asp

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Posted By: Demon
Date Posted: 19 July 2006 at 12:35pm

Well, you could always make a basic version thats free, and keep working on a more advanced version with better features which you could sell to those people that are really interested in professional Script addons instead of a simple mod.

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So Sayith the Demon.