I wanted to ask if aMember would be the right tool for the following scenario. I wish to build a community built upon Joomla that integrates a separate photo gallery script and a forum such as vbulletin or phpbb. Can aMember be setup to manage all of them? If possible I'd like to control the signup from aMember to sync with all of the above applications. If I can make Joomla or aMember the common access point and the others bridge their membership data bases will that work? Signing up for the main service would allow access to all the other components, so there wouldn't be separate billing per feature. Thanks for taking the time to review my inquiry. Regards, Zoren
This is *exactly* what amember does. I've had success specifically with integrating both the mentioned apps, so I can attest that it works ( although I did do a bunch of modifications because I'm a developer, but I believe it should work right 'out of the box'). -John
So what is mentioned here is right or wong in your estimation? My reason for asking is mentiened below this post.
O.k., the old posting above deals with the combination of amember and multiple other applications, which shall use a shared registration. I have a similar question regarding multiple applications, but mor complex. Background: 1. All my applications are using currently their own independent registration sytem 2. On SOME (not all) of my forums (discus 4 pro), I have already fee based access with a 2 day free trial (paypal recurring subscriptions). I have to do this currently manually 3. On my photo galleries (photopost 5.x), I have currently free access, but want to implement something with amember, but probably without a free trial. Question: Is it possible with one amember licence and only one amember installation (only on one domainname), to set up 2-3 different registration systems/ entry forms depending on whether the users subscribes for the forum/different forums or the photo gallery? Will amember handle these separately so that if the users is cancelleing in the forum, he is not canceled in the photo gallery (if I want to set it up this way). The problem I see is, that the registration software amember shall be on one domainname, but each forum has a different domainname and the photo galleries have a subdomainname. Everything is on one server and everything is part of one "photo portal". Will this work with amember?
Zoren, it depends on requirements. If you expect to see completely integrated system, then no - aMember cannot do that. If you need users database integration, yes - aMember is a solution. aMember plugins are working as described here: http://www.amember.com/p/Integration/ Integration is always one-way: from aMember to third-party script. So there can be any number of plugins enabled, and aMember will add paid users to all third-party scripts and disable them when time comes. So, registration must be disabled in all third-party scripts. Single-login works correctly in this case, only if aMember login forms are used anywhere. snoopy5, will your doctor treat you by phone? Please, with such a compilcated example, contact us via helpdesk and provide exact links, so we can see what you are talking about. Thank you.