Member status verification
 

Ok, I realize this isnt a hack request for the masses, but I dont think this would be too difficult either.

I need an easy way for someone to check the membership status of another member. By easy I mean a box where the username could be entered, and his membership status would be displayed.

My purpose: I have a car site. I intend to seek discounts from parts suppliers for our "paid members" - but I need an easy way for those vendors to verify that a member is a paid member, when such a member places an order with them.

I have VbAdvanced CMPS - so for me if this worked in a module that would be great, but thic could be built anywhere as far as im concerned. It could even be its own seperate page - makes no difference to me... Just so a vendor wouldnt have to go through a dozen steps to verify status.

Anyone care to help me on this one?

anyone??

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Help??

Not got one done, but I will be writing one for CMPS to interface into VB's usergroup.

My assumption will be members in one group and traders in another, with the module only visible to the lookup group i.e. the traders group.

Can't give you a time line, but within a few weeks as we are rolling out a membership scheme. This is not a core aspect, but one which we do need.

If you're not using the "Forum Leaders" Page, you could use that to show which members are "paid-members"
Of course it would be open for anyone to see, you might have to add a if ($bbuserinfo[usergroupid] != x) {print_no_permission(); }

Colin,

Was just going to write a simple module in cmps that had a userid form submit to a getuser function call for the userid, technically each "club member" user will know there user id. Displays yes or no if member is within a group (n | n1 | n2...) and a code of some sort the vendor can ask the user to confirm, eg pets name. Maybe some notes to the vendor if operating a tiered scheme.

Thats the rough concept at least.