Hello, may I ask for your help please...

Well, I'm in need to build a Membership Site, where people have to register before they can access to the FREE-area.

Also, there need to be a possibility to charge customers if they want to access the FEE-area(s) of the site.

One example is something like http://www.expatrium.com/

Any experience of the following scripts?

* DreamAccount
* Membership Client Pro
* SubScriptionKit
* Account Manager Pro
* Locked Area Pro
* Other possible solutions?

Your recommendations, help and comments highly appreciated!

Thanks, all the best

Kari from Sunny Spain :)

If you have any php/mysql knowledge, you could do this fairly easily. Setup a small database for users to be stored in. Have a field for a "fee" flag or something, then when users pay, update the flag to display that.

Then on each page just have a few lines of auth. code to basically check to see if they have logged in. If they have, they are granted access. If they haven't logged in, it will then prompt them to do so. And if they do not have access, have it display a reason why, such as they have to pay xxx dollars or something.

I haven't lookd into those other scripts, so I don't know if they are free or you need to pay, but if you just needed something quick and free I would do it yourself if you can.

Thanks for your reply!

Actually, I'm quite a newbie in programming... I'm trying to find some kind of "ready" (commercial or open source) solution to manage different member areas. I know, that there are a lot of possibilities to build solutions in house - IF I had the knowledge or resources. Unfortunately I don't have :(

Your help and ideas highly appreciated!

Kari from Sunny Spain :)

FOr more open source solutions, you may want to check www.hotscripts.com

There are many good resources there

Thanks for your reply!

Yes, I've checked hotscripts.com, php.resourceindex.com and others...

As far as I understand, I want to stay with PHP-MySQL-solutions?

The problem is, there are a lot of quite similar solutions and I don't have the knowledge to compare them... That's why your personal experience and comments are highly appreciated.

Thanks for your help!

Kari from Sunny Spain :)