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In that case, Amember would be about your only option.

You could also modify phpShop to work with one of the current Account Hacks. This is what I am currently working on.

Chuck

Were can I find out more information on these account hacks?

It's the ones already mentioned here. I know we can get them to working, if we put our heads together. Maybe we can set something up on the forge to pull a lot of these ideas together and work on it.

Oh, I see.  I miss understood ya.  I think that a hack in phpShop would be great.  Unfortuantly my php is as good as me just staring at the code.  I am trying to learn, but I am afraid I can't help you.  Did you contact Scubaguy?

I'm keeping an eye on the thread.  Life has just been a little busy lately and I haven't had a chance to put something together.  I should be able to post some fixes in the next couple of days.

i would like to test some free components

I have sort of gotten a copy of php-shop and CB working together for what I am wanting to do. It doesn't involve accounts that expire after a certain time though. Once I get this "very dirty hack" together- hopefully by Thursday- I'll let ya'll see it - maybe you can add expiration to it.

It involves my syncronization technique from the mambojoe forums.

I have another idea I am going over that involves upgrading the user to "Author". Does anyone know the code to get the current user and upgrade his account status to Author?

Chuck

Well Great NEWS!!!!

I am only a few short steps away from the finished project. A brief explanation of what I've done:

1) User signs in with Community Builder
2) After registration, User is automatically redirected to phpShop
3) The User chooses the product they wish to buy
4) PROBLEM: phpShop requires billing information from a separate table than CB
    - I went into phpShop and modified "checkout_register_form"
    - I hardcoded the "billable fields" to address, city, etc. (I did not need these since they were in CB)
    - Then I placed a DIV around these forms and set display:hidden
5) YET TO DO: When payment is successful, upgrade User to Author
6) Use "mosif" mambot to set the paid content to Author only
    - I only have one article the client pays for, but if you have many articles, you may be able to use mosclearft (I believe this allows you to automatically add content before or after every article). It might be another mambot, not sure. But in this mambot, you can have your articles prepend the mosif all the articles (though it wouldn't be hard to add to each article if you do it yourself).

I am going to good ole Kansas City for my 1st year Anniversary on Thursday. So I'll post a more thorough update when I return- with code lines and such.

Chuck

Sounds great Chuck.  Thanks for the hardwork!  I can't wait to see what you come up with.

Hey

this is probably the only place i haven't asked this question but i see bedlam is having the same problem. Users who who skip the paypal stage are getting a activation link and are placed into the exclude list. Just wondering if a solution for this problem has been found.

Also was wondering if a user decides to pay later or subscribe for another month lets say how do they do this.  The paypal subscription page only seems to show when they register.

Does this mean that when the subscription expires they will be removed as a user and they have to register again.

Thanks

Hey Funkymunky,

The only thing I know about the Acct Expiration Module is that there is a setting in the administration menu for the component that has a default setting of '-1' when you first install the component.  Try to set that for '30', or something like that.  That may be the setting for the exclude list.  If not, then I am not sure how to solve that problem.

I believe that the PayPal API sends the subscription information to Joomla regarding when they renew their subscription, but again, I am not sure.  You might have to manually set their expiration everytime the membership is renewed.  But I am thinking that the PayPal API for the component takes care of this and resets their expiration for the one month or yearly memberships that you have set. 

I know this may not be helpful since I am 'not sure' about everything, but it will help it out.

ive searched around on all other forums ppl having the same problem.
Ill give your suggestions a try see what happens

Thanks

okay the -1 thing didn't work.
so looked around in the code hacked it so it will expire the user just before the paypal payment page appears. I'm trying to set up the sandbox account with paypal to test this. This way it does not place the user into the exclude any more. Its probably wrong   ;D but i wont be able to tell until i test it in the sandbox paypal account. if anyone manages to sort it out some other way please do tell.

the file is components/com_acctexp/acctexp.php

}
$row->checking();

$name = $row->name;
$email = $row->email;
$username = $row->username;
$userid = $row->id;
$registerDate = $row->registerDate; // For use on expiration date

// funkymunky hack**************************************
    $database->setQuery( "INSERT INTO #__acctexp SET userid=$userid, expiration=DATE_ADD('$registerDate', INTERVAL $cfg->initialexp DAY)" );
$database->query();

//end of funkymunky hack ************************************************

hey funkymunky ... im not in my testing pc right now ..... if you manage to make it work please do inform us

by the way ... hope you can tell the developer about your hack in the forge, so that if it works he can incorporate it in the next release.

I hope Helder has a fix for the bug with the paypal subcribed but not updating the expire period of new signed up members as well.

Cheers!

would love to see the thread with a title:

"Paid Memberships in Mambo at FREE at Last!!"

watching this thread closely. (",)

You mean:
At Last, paid Memberships in Mambo "for" FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(u left out the exclamation marks which were necessary, lol)

The title sounded weird when i first read the thread.
The title is kinda misleading. It makes u fink that there are already paid memberships for free.

if we take it at face value, it doesn make sense either.
There has (almost) always been paid memberships for mambo

Hi Bedlam

After testing it with paypal sandbox it works (im bloody suprised)

1. the user signs up.

(mambo will expire him straight away before the paypal stage using the hack above)

2. users selects a subscription goes through all the paypal stages.

3. User is returned back to the thank you page (i did not have set in my paypal preferences to accept all payments so if the payment was not accepted they will still be expired)

4. Once the payment is accepted in paypal their subscription details are changed into an active account.

im currently working on a subscription button under the user menu so they can update the subscription

knowing my php abilities there is bound to be a glitch some where  .

Wooo! hehehe .... you da man! funkymunky

ill try to test your hack tomorrow .... I think this solves my problem with the initial signup

any other hack you made besides the one you posted before? Im using Community Builder, I hope you are using it as well so as to be the same with my setup.

But really, this is a great work, thanks man.

Cheers!

Just keep us posted with your updates!

Hey funkymunky,

thanks for your hack, I'll merge it to next release. By the way, I am looking for a new developer for the project to maintain a possible branch of component to work integrated with CB. After all, open source is colaborative work, right? This component started as a little "learning exercise", but now I have a lot of users interested on new features, integration with other components, and some bugs to fix. My time is very restricted. I need help 

Hedler, I just sent in a request over on the JoomlaForge to join the project and help where I can.

Accepted. I have all code on $amboforge CVS repository. I'm creating a new repository at Joomlaforge and create a branch for Account Expiration Control Component CB Edition (name just created  ) so we can work on it. We still need to test and adapt it if needed for Joomla.

I'll send you more details by email..

Thanks!

I hope this is the right place to post this!! I was pointed in this direction, saying that funkymunky had a fix for this, I have looked at it and I don't think this fixes my problem.

Unless I have to modify the code provided by funkymunky! PLEASE HELP.

Here is my problem:

I want users to have a choice, when they register, they either subscribe and pay with paypal, which will give them access to extra stuff or just subscribe without paying, this will give them restricted access.

So if a user compleets the signup form and sends it, he/she is taken to to the payment page, but I want them to choose, if they wand Gold membership, they can go ahead and pay via paypal, if they want Silver membership, then they dont have to pay and they can just log in straight away.

My problem at the moment is that when a user chooses not to pay for a subscription and tries to login, they are automatically blocked.

Is there a way to prevent this, I have looked though all the menus and cant see how to change this.

I have also integrated the AccountExp component.

Any help please I am desperate

Thank You

Juan

im currently finishing off a project. I was working on a subscription button within th user menu. i have got it to stage where if they press the button they see the subscribe page which they would have only seen at the registration point. Hopefully i will complete this soon and test it

my hack previously helped those ppl who had problems with users not being blocked. They were being placed into the exclude list as soon as they registered.

i will keep ya posted

So close yet so far - it seems that if only I know Sql or Php like you, I would just be able to modify the the code slightly so users that dont pay are NOT autoblocked.!!!

I look forward to hearing from you - when you can.

Anyone else that can help???

The line that is doing the blocking is in acctexp.php around line 194 is:



Try comenting that out to make it look like this:



If you are using the CB hack then do a search in comprofiler.php for:



and comment that out so it looks like this:

So now that unpaying registered users are no longer blocked with this hack, how do we make it so they can upgrade?  I would prefer not to have people become authors to be in another group, but the goal is to have people click the button funkymunky is hacking to upgrade. If the only way to do this is to have them go up one level to author, I guess we will do with what we got.  How can we make this automatic?

okay

when a users subscription has expired you get this message saying

Dear Tony Blair Your account has expired you a*sh**e
Please contact us to renew your subscription.

I mananged to place a link under all that called renew subscription. when the user click on it they get the paypal payment page with all ya buttons. iv managed to renew a subscription fines so it seesm to be working. im gona have to do a few more test before im happy.

still trying to get a button in the user menu but need to find a way of keeping the user menu showing if their sub has expired be grateful if anybody knows how

right!

its 4:30am so im off to dream about Monica Bellucci again! 

LOL .......

thanks for the update! ... cant wait to try it