Im looking to have a license system like vB official sites, is that hard to do?

[John Diver]

Hello,
I will be putting up a site soon for a program I am coding.
At first it will be free but then it will go premium, I want to have something to distinguish members of the forum that have a valid license for the program, and those that havent bought a license.

The best thing would be to have something integrated with a site, like vBulletin does with the members area.

The license/member issue is the main thing I want to know as I already have a vb license for another site so know a good bit about it already.

Would this be something I would have to ask at vb.org ?

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks
John

[John Diver]

can anyone help with this please?

[Xenon]

there is a hack that creates .htaccesfiles based on usernames/passwords.

if you combine this method with a restriction for special usergroups, that's very easy to achieve.

[John Diver]

Hey Xenon,
Thanks for the reply.
I dont have any idea how PHP works, the most complicated thing I can do in PHP is use includes..
Do you know if the actual hack used for the vb.com site is available?
So members can enter their forum username into the member area and this lets them post in the support forums.

Thanks again for the help,
John

[Xenon]

nope, the vb.com system isn't available in public, i just said a similar way has been released (i think it was by KirbyDE but not sure)