Paid Members Area

[lwhite]

I am not sure if this has already been made, I don't think so.

I want to be able to offer some kidn of members area for my paid subscription members other than a forum. It could be somewhat of an enhances usercp for users in a certain usergroup.

I want them to be able to accces their webmail, access the downloads, and maybe get their subdomain information ( I could live without). I know no otherway to restrict a whole area to just one usergroup other than a forum. Could someone help?

[Zachery]

can be doen with subscriptions and forum permissions

plus moving them into a usergroup that has access and such.

new usergroup could have a higher pm quota larger or custom avatars so on and so forth

[lwhite]

But would I just make a normal PHP coded page and add the modification that allows users to sign on with non-vB pages. But how would I prevent non paid members from accessing it and is there a way that it can be personalized for each user, kind of like an enhances usercp?

[Zachery]

in php it would be just as simple as connection to vbulletin and checking the usergroup id OR checking the cookie data (which i DONT know how to do but have seen it done)

[lwhite]

Ok...I'll have to talk to a coder/scripter about doing it for me because I don't know how to do it.

[The Keeper]

Just have chdir(path to your forums here)
require_once global.php

[Zachery]

Just have chdir(path to your forums here)
require_once global.php
ive released a howto for the basics of vB3 but that doesnt count checking cookies ;D

[offlead]

ive released a howto for the basics of vB3 but that doesnt count checking cookies ;D


Well, your HowTo will enable me to clean up the pieces of this puzzle I've been able to put together so far, but I too need to restrict access of non-vb pages to certain usergroups, and am not sure how to do this. Don't suppose you could add onto that HowTo of yours? :D

(Thanks for that HowTo, btw. It answers a lot of questions I had floating around in my head, and will definitely help me clean up my existing work.)

Jeniffer