aMember fields & phpBB2 integration

Discussion in 'Pre-Sales Questions' started by Arthur, May 31, 2006.

  1. Arthur

    Arthur Guest

    Hi, I'm the CIO for a non-profit, and I've been running aMember through its paces. It's a nice product. I'm 75% certain that I'm going to purchase it for the org's online member services upgrade that I'm planning/designing/implementing/and taking the blame for. I have a couple of questions regarding the phpBB2 integration, that will pretty much seal the deal for me.

    I understand, that with the plugin, automatic registration and single sign-on can be accomplished. My additional questions are as follows.

    I have added several fields to the membership aMember profile. These fields are not visible and not editable by the registeree. These fields are administrative fields which identify the role of active members. (ie. Checkboxes for various positions within the organization.)

    On the phpBB2 side, I have several hidden forums which correspond to one or more of these roles. These forums are visible to members of certain groups only.

    My question is whether the plugin allows an administrator to grant JoeUser the Role of Officer (by checking the box in the aMember profile), and having that translate to immediate membership in the phpBB2 group that makes one or more forums visible. I hope that's clear. I'm going to give a more illustrative example.

    JoeUser registers on aMember. He is automatically given a phpBB2 profile, and can log on to the protected content. Once there he sees only the General Forum.

    Administrator logs on to aMember and edits JoeUser's profile. He checks the "Officer" box.

    The next time JoeUser logs on to the forum, he sees the Officer Forum in addition to the General Forum.

    Is this possible with the phpBB2 plugin?
  2. alex

    alex aMember Pro Customer Staff Member

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    aMember handles that using not checkboxes, aMember uses product subscriptions for this concept.

    For example, if user has active subscription to Product#1, he will also automatically belong to some usergroup in phpBB users database (you configure phpBB usergroup in aMember product settings).

    You may (as I remember) set access permissions for different usergroups in phpBB to be able to open some forums or not.

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