Peak Usage Program

[jam583]

I am a member of SANDBOX.com and they charge $2.95/month to access their website during "peak hours". I wanted to start a similar program. But, I only want to charge $1/month to allow people to access the website during my peak hours.

Some key factors:

1. Must be streamlined .. if someone pays with paypal.com it updates their acccount etc. No manual intervention

2. Must be able to control what days and hours .. Maybe only two days a week for 2 hours a day etc.

3. Perhaps only allow peak usage members during peak hours honors to stay logged on longer than 10 minutes.

SANDBOX.com is doing it and I think it would be useful for many people trying to cover bandwidth usage on established and large forums.

[Logician]

Originally posted by jam583
2. Must be able to control what days and hours .. Maybe only two days a week for 2 hours a day etc.

You should first create a new usergroup for "paying members" then edit global.php, find:

PHP Code:

// check to see if server is too busy. this is checked at the end of session.php 


before that add:

PHP Code:

if (($bbuserinfo['usergroupid'] != Z AND $bbuserinfo['usergroupid'] != 5 AND $bbuserinfo['usergroupid'] != 6 AND $bbuserinfo['usergroupid'] != 7) AND (date("h", time())>X AND date("h", time())>Y)) {
  eval("standarderror(\"".gettemplate('peak_hour')."\");");
  exit;
} 


Replace X with your starting hour and Y with your ending hour for peak hours, Z wiht the usergroup id of your paid members and create a new template named "peak_hour" which will be displayed to ordinary members if it's a peak hour.. That's it..

1. Must be streamlined .. if someone pays with paypal.com it updates their acccount etc. No manual intervention

Sorry to say this but this is not a vb hack request, this is a big integration project request. Such a project can not apply to all sites, because it would be specific to your site's needs (integrated into it) so I cant see a possibility such an hack could be released here or even if it did, it wouldnt fit to your needs.