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Topic: check on registered users.

Posted By: donhill
Subject: check on registered users.
Date Posted: 29 June 2003 at 10:49pm

Hello,

My forum is used for subscribers and i update the forum database after they place an order to purchase a subscription.

I want to check that the yare paid up subscribers when they login. Which script do I need to look in and alter to only allow them access if tehy are current.

Like a check for qactive I guess. But I ned to check against the date in teh databse and current date.

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Posted By: ljamal
Date Posted: 30 June 2003 at 7:30am

Rather than checking the database for the date, you should keep track of when they subscribed and the length of the subscription. After the subscription period has passed just set their membership to inactive.

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L. Jamal Walton

http://www.ljamal.com/" rel="nofollow - L. Jamal Inc : Web/ Print Design and ASP Programming

Posted By: donhill
Date Posted: 01 July 2003 at 6:08am

is nt that saying the same thing?

I mean, how do you check those details without checking teh database?

Posted By: ljamal
Date Posted: 01 July 2003 at 7:05am

It has the same outcome, but the procedure it simpler because you are using the forum to do what it already does (check for active accounts) without the need to rewrite it to check for a time span.

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L. Jamal Walton

http://www.ljamal.com/" rel="nofollow - L. Jamal Inc : Web/ Print Design and ASP Programming

Posted By: donhill
Date Posted: 01 July 2003 at 8:53pm

yes I see what you mean but that wont work here because their are many forums which have their own subscription to access so if they are not current in one (inactive) they may still be active on another forum within the same database

check this out to see what I mean. All the main Forum headings can be subscribed to separately.

http://svc109.wic001u.server-web.com/Mclarenreport/reports/forum/default.asp - http://svc109.wic001u.server-web.com/Mclarenreport/reports/forum/default.asp

Posted By: ljamal
Date Posted: 01 July 2003 at 10:05pm

Ah, so they have access to different forums within on the boards based upon what subscription they have paid for?

I assume that you are using the user permission that is built into the forum to manage a user's ability to access the forum. Assuming that, then I would keep track of the subscription length for each forum and when that subscription period has expired remove their permissions from that group. It's the same premise as I mentioned before but you are automating the removal from tblPermissions table rather than updating tblAuthor.

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L. Jamal Walton

http://www.ljamal.com/" rel="nofollow - L. Jamal Inc : Web/ Print Design and ASP Programming