Web Hosting Talk : Web Hosting Main Forums : Programming Discussion : Stumped on subscription type stuff.

[Shankerr]

So heres the deal..

I am going to be using a credit card processor (most likely ccbill.com thanks to your guys advice). Anyway, what I want to do is have the client fill out a form, select a user name and password, provide some other info (email, name, etc) then get forwarded to the payment site (ccbill.com) and once payment is made, have it set up so that their chosen user name and password are useable on the site, and forward them back to the login screen for the site.

I know, its pretty basic, but what do you guys recommend for doing this? I've never set up anything like this before, but its crucial that it go smoothly

ANyway, sorry for the dumbass question, don't flame me too much

Cheers

Shane

[mindsharpe]

Tell us a little more about what you are using to process this form, this may help someone to help you better.

PHP,CGI, ect.

[Shankerr]

hey there

I'm undecided yet actually. I'm baically starting from scratch so I am open to suggestions! I am a bit partial to PHP though, so I might lean in that direction, but I really am open to suggestions. Is there a software that you guys use that you prefer for subscription signup?

Like I said, just throw out suggestions, I'm open, nothing is locked in yet, and I haven't started developing much of the site yet, so implementing just about anything you guys can come up with would still be a cinch!

Thanks

Shane

[H-U.net]

If you considered using PayPal then there is a very nice free script available at http://www.eliteweaver.co.uk/passpal/

It works a treat too and it's PHP

Kevin

[Shankerr]

I was planning to use PayPal actually, but someone mentioned taht I couldnt use it for my new site (which is going to be adult oriented) and when i checked the acceptable use policy, that was in fact the case Too bad, I use PayPal for a few of my other sites, and it works quite nicely! Oh well, what can ya do?

Thanks for the suggestion though

[Shankerr]

Bump

[clay]

I've used ASP and MySQL to store the information but now I'm using PHP on all my stuff since moving to a linux box. However I'm using paypal for my subscriptions but could very well store the info in a database.

However, I would start with creating a small database...myphpadmin is good for creating this although there are a lot of programs out there to get access to the database remotely.

After that you would need to create all your forms using php. The form inserts all the info into the database and then sends them off to the payment processor and depending on who the processor is, it would return to a page that you specify through a variable. Now how you do all this through php I have no idea but I'm learning.

I would be interested in learning though.

[calvin]

How complicated do you want the setup to be? If you are not going to use a database to store the usernames and passwords, ccbill provides a perl script that will automatically add and remove the username and passwords to your .htpasswd file. They'll install the script for you. You just just link to the order form and you are done.

If you want to store the data in a database, you'll have to write a script that adds the info to the database. You can use your own form, collect whatever data you want, save that to the database and then send the user to ccbill's order form. You can even pass variables to the order form to prefill most of the fields. After ccbill processes the billing info, they'll send back data to your script.

[Shankerr]

hmm sounds easier to just use the ccbill script then, eh?