Using paid subscriptions as a automated gaming donation system.

[uB|Delta One]

Hello,

I'm pretty new to vB and I'm still learning all the funtionality and capability. Here's my situation, and question, please respond if you can help or point me in the right direction - I would greatly appreciate it!

I run a gaming community known as Urban Bushido. Currently, gamers donate to the community and we look up their steam ID and add them to a list which provides them benefits in our gaming servers. This list is uploaded to the servers ftp's when the submit button is hit.

What I'm trying to do, is two parts:

Part 1: In the user profile field on the vB forums, I want to add a required field on user registration that requires them to enter formatted information. This option would also have a checkbox for the regustration to ignore this field if the person doesn't have access to this information - so at least they can register.

When the user hits submit, it runs a check on the field to make sure it matches a pre-defined format and would work later on down the line. (Should be a simple regex).

This field can also be modified in the user control panel.

Part 2: When the user then donates, and is returned to the forum after the donation is sent using the paid subscriptions. The system automatically pulls the custom field from above and inserts it into a file that is recreated every hour based of the people who's subscriptions are current. This file then gets uploaded to the gaming servers with the correct content from that custom field above using a cron job.

If you're still following me, this effectively simulates the current manual system we have in place, except with this proposed system - it would be automatic. Plus, with the paid subscriptions, people would get emailed automatically to re-donate to the community or their benefits would expire a month after their donation - which is what we are currently doing by hand.

Is this possible?

Can anyone provide any assistance with this system?

Can any of you point me in the right direction?

I'd appreciate ANY assistance any of you can give. Like I said, I'm still very new to the system and still trying to learn all of the capabilities.

Thank you all for your time,
Patrick Jones