Re: building a php based subscription site (not a porn site)

What I usually do is set a cookie BEFORE sending them to the paypal site then on the confirm page (which they click through to after they paid) check for the cookie - if it's there then activate the account. If not then delete the account after 5 days (gives them plenty of time to bitch if they didn't click through). Make sure to put a LARGE notice on your signup form explaining exactly how to activate their account. Hope this helps - it's worked great for me in the past. --Joe On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 06:02:38PM -0500, Vincent Stoessel wrote: > I am helping a client make a transition from a ad revenue based site > to a membership based one and I was wondering if there was some commonly > used mechanism for php based membership sites. I have made > membership sites before but they were free. How does one : > > 1. Have a person register a username > 2. pay for membership ( paypay, payflow) > 3. Verify that membership is payed for > 4. Allow user to log in and browse member only content. > > > umber 1 and 4 I know how to do but I'm not sure if my list is in > the correct order. Should they pay for membership, then select a username? > > Has someone done this before? > -- > Vincent Stoessel vincent@xaymaca.com > Java Linux Apache Mysql Php (JLAMP) Engineer > (301) 362-1750 Mobile (410) 419-8588 > AIM, MSN: xaymaca2020 , Yahoo Messenger: vks_jamaica > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net Joe Stump <joe@joestump.net> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "How would this sentence be different if pi equaled 3?"