Web site membership management ....
This application allows authorized members to access a secure area of a web site after the purchase of a PayPal subscription.
Members are automatically allocated to the secure areas after payment has been confirmed from PayPal or manually added through the admin displays.
PHP-SecureArea provides the checking of the completed transaction from PayPal, administration of memberships, and the sending of confirmation email and password to the customers.
The secure areas have parameters that include :
- the folder path of the protected area
- the cost to access the protected area
- the billing cycle for the subscription which may be from 1 day to many years.
When the user makes a valid purchase, they are able to log in to the secure area for the subscription period and continue to do so as long as the customer continues to pay the subscription. Access to the secure area will end when the customer cancels the subscription or when payment fails.
Subscription installments are also supported allowing a fixed number of payments to be made for a defined period.
The application does not have to be used with PayPal, as users can be manually created through the admin interface.
You can create as many secure areas as you like, with each area pointing to different folders or some pointing to the same folders but with differing costs and time limits. So you could have a subscription costing $10.00 for 6 months access and another subscription costing $15.00 for 12 months access giving the customer a choice.
Main features
- Interacts with PayPal allowing customers to gain access to secure areas without any intervention from yourself.
- Customers can be added or removed using the admin interface independently of PayPal.
- Duration of membership defined in units of days, months or years.
- Automatic removal of members from the login system after subscription period has expired.
- In built checks to ensure that PayPal payments are valid and to prevent spoofing.
- Written in PHP and requires mySQL.
- All credit card transactions are handled by PayPal.
Customer login
Customers have access to a set of administration pages where they may change their password and recover a lost password.
Requirements
- PHP version PHP 4.2.0 or higher (including PHP5)
- Apache web server
- mySQL database version 3.23 or higher
- Linux or FreeBSD operating system (not Windows)
- A Paypal Business or Premium account - sign up here.
- Email functionality on the web server so that the PHP scripts can send out emails to customers.
- If you are looking for a suitable host for you site, I would recommend the basic web hosting plan from LunarPages which has all the required features for this application.
It uses only 'standard' php, does not require any extra php modules and it should not need any changes to the .ini file.
