DISCUSSION - 2 tier membership system (paid members!).

[Dakota]

I think that is a great idea, although I wouldn't use it on my forum. Mainly because my forum is for a Q3 total conversion called Bid For Power, and we are hosted by another site. I know alot of forums out there will find it very useful. I need to learn how to code in php that was I can make some small hacks for my forum.

[GeorgeofCS]

I'm definitely interested and would gladly pay for a hack that does all those things and was fairly easy to install
Unfortunately my site is one of those humor sites in a slump and I know people are willing to help out, but want something in return. I think this would be the best thing to give them. However on my board at least it would I would need it to work in a multi-template board. My main site is the backbone behind 6 different sites.

[eva2000]

Originally posted by wluke


We used 15 gigabytes last month for the forums alone. It would have been closer to 30 gigabytes if we didn't have gzip compression turned on. I am currently working to double our traffic through various promotion techniques.


All told for the whole network we used over 60 gigabytes in the month of May.

well off topic again i posted this at SPF's search engines forum about Alltheweb.com's Fastsearch partner site program http://www.fastsearch.com/index.php?...&s=partnersite waiting for the reply to my inquiry about the program

my forum before gzip compression used 45 - 60GB/month and now with gzip compression uses 25 - 45GB/month all up around 100GB/month

wayne i'd like to be in the testing group as well.. but i thought your off on a break for your wedding coming up ?

[Wayne Luke]

I will be away for the last 9 days of June... I will most likely release something on the First of July. This is three weeks from.

This is only so I can be around to support those that need it.

[Wayne Luke]

Okay here is what I have worked up for my own purposes.

• A new group will be created for subscribers.
• There will be a cronjob script provided that will notify subscribers before their subscription expires. An expiration added to the user table will handle this.
• Expired Subscribers will be relegated back to the Registered User group via another cronjob. (configurable)
• The following will be controlled on a UserGroup Basis: Avatars, Custom Titles, User Badge (look at SitePointforums.com for example), PM Storage Limit, Download PM's to Email, Message in Email Notification, Default Styleset, Download Attachments.

One thing I plan on doing is allowing my members to "purchase" their subscription with participation in the community but more about this later.

Looking at Chris's original post, setting the email up the way he wants to do it will be the most difficult. However I am open to ideas.

[JackG]

Please make it work on Windows NT!

[Wayne Luke]

Originally posted by JackG
Please make it work on Windows NT!

Well the "CRON Jobs" will simply be made up of PHP Scripts that would be run from the command line. You could set them up to be run by Windows Task Scheduler in the same manner. So it should be Windows compatible.

CRON is just the unix/linux version of Task Scheduler.

[JackG]

Thanks for the info WLuke. This is pretty wild!

[chrispadfield]

this is awesome wayne, looking forward to it.

[steven]

Wayne-
I think that we all anxiously await your release of the script. I was wondering how you plan to accept customers payments with this script, will you use a gateway service or is a merchant account needed?