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mikevf
Starting Member
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 Posted - 02 May 2001 : 18:46:20
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I've been looking for a solid msgboard and snitz looks great. I'd like to allow anyone to read msgs but restrict posting to paying members. I'm currently using comersus to sell subscriptions so I already have a database of users. My questions (in order of priority) are:
1. Is there a simple way to remove registration and integrate login with my existing user database? In checking the competition I see that ASP Fast Forum has done a great job of abstracting the user loging information and one need only read from thier exiting db and set 4 session variables. Can I do something comparable for Snitz? (ASPFF directions were in their FAQ at http://www.aspfastforum.com/aspfastforum/faq.asp#a4
2. Can I set permissions with Snitz based on membership level (gold, silver, platnum). Looks like there may be an addon for this but I don't think it addresses by previous concern.
3. Does snitz support the concept of membership durations and expiration?
If I can find a reasonable answer to question #1 I think I can work around the other problems. Any help is much appreciated. -Mike
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MorningZ
Junior Member
USA
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Posted - 02 May 2001 : 20:17:21
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1) you can set
Response.Cookies( strUniqueID & "user")("name") = --- your name from login ---
Response.Cookies( strUniqueID & "user")("pword") = --- password ----
Response.Cookies( strUniqueID & "user")("level") = ---- level ----
and optionally
Response.Cookies( strUniqueID & "user").Expires = DateAdd("y",1,Now())
when they use your login
I do this on one of my sites and it works nicely 
2) There is a "group" option on the "create/modify" forum page of admins
3) it'd be easy to put a check in the snitz login check to make sure that today isnt greater than the expiration date.... check out the way snitz ( and MANY other boards ) use a slick function to convert the hard to manage "Now()" format to a nice easy to manage 14 length string
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Doug G
Support Moderator
USA
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Posted - 03 May 2001 : 01:03:59
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I am finishing up a cookieless hack to use my existing asp userbase. I haven't found all the places I need to change yet, but the basics work. I stuck an authentication class at the top of every Snitz page.
I added a field to the Members table to hold the existing user ID, and in inc_top.asp added some code to stuff a member in the Snitz table if the ID isn't already there. I don't have my notes handy right now, but there are quite a few places in the code that need changing if you don't want to use a cookie, and I haven't found them all yet.
The problem is the changes are fairly extensive, so it becomes a pain when there is a new Snitz release. What I have is functional, new site members are automatically added the first time they visit the forum (transparently to them).
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