The website I have put the Snitz forum on is for a fan club. People can sign up to be a member of the fan club. I have been running this for years and have simply kept the membership as contacts in Outlook. I get an email with the sign up and copy the information as a new contact. It's somewhat of a pain and I've been thinking about implementing a membership program.
Now after using the forum for awhile, I can see where the registering and member handling could almost be like a membership program. Has anybody done a mod that adds more functionality like this?
From looking through the register page and profile for admins, I can see these features would at least need to be added in my case: User functions: Address Zip Code Home phone Work phone Add me as a fan club member option Don't show me in members list to non-administrators
Admin only functions: Select from multiple Categories like in Outlook Comments field Current member - just a yes or no. No deletions like the Inactive mod. Setting No would automatically not show them in the member list as in the User functions.
For all previously joined members I would need to add them to the database by selecting a User Name and password for them. There would have to be a way to let them change that user name later. They can select they forgot their password and the one I assigned would be sent to them and then they can login to change the password. I would also need to change the Member Since date.
I think that's about it that would be needed to make a membership program in addition to the existing mods like emailing to all members.
I have added a Membership modification to my site. I integrated it with the registration process and the profile pages. The membership requires approval but we allow anyone to join the forum. So the process usually is the member will apply for forum registration. During that registration they have a choice to apply for membership. Once registration is submitted a email validation is sent (Normal Snitz Registration). Once the member verifies the email another email is sent to the club approver with a link to accept or deny the member. Both actions will send an email to the member telling them of the approval or denial.
Now this heavily modded the register.asp file and a few others. It added three fields to the members and pending members table.
The bad news is it I never turned this into a downloadable mod. I never thought there would be much interest in it. I might be able to throw something together but I would not want to guarantee anything.
Thanks for the response. I like your concept and like how you put together your register page. I'm going to have to think about what to do. We purchased a membership program last year and after I posted this topic, I took another stab at that and finally got it working. I'm going to have to do some thinking about the best way to approach all this. I don't want to require users to join two separate things as it would be nice to have their information in a common database. Hmmm, this will take some thinking.
Mike, It looks like we have some interest here and you have a headstart on all of us. Is there anything you can provide to get us started? Sounds like a little workgroup project.
I have a word document with all the modifications I made. This was specific to my site and my membership. The site has 5 states that they can join so there is an option to choose what state they want. Most likely you will not need this. This may get you started.
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