Don't know if it can - or it exists somewhere out there already but - Is it possible to have a module that would create an email account for the member subscribing to the site? Sortof like so to say a 2mb email account of the host domain that the site is created on? So if we have www.wowologist.com and as part of the membership were giving them a web based email with @wowologist.com as part of the package. Is this doable feasible does it exist? can it exist? And I think it would be a screamin' addition to amember which is already screamin' hot!
This is very possible depending on what you are using to provide email and if they expose the ability to create email addresses via programmatic means. I would say it is also very possible to provide single sign on as well. Which mail app are you using?
I think this would be quite simple actually. No "hacking" of the aMember core code needs to be done. aMember has built-in "hooks" for this - they are described at http://manual.amember.com/Using_site.inc.php_and_hooks . While some coding would still be necessary, we are talking about like 10-20 lines of PHP code, maybe less, maybe more as it depends on the email account software you plan to use. A few more lines of code would be necessary for automatic removal of an existing email account if the member cancels their membership, but still should be easily doable. Tomas
Agreed. Depending on your email software I can even code this as an external plugin for you (for free) in a couple of hours..that way you don't have to touch the core aMember code or templates.
Very Interesting Thanks for the input - and if you would like to experiment like you said, feel free to drop me a line at wowologist(@)gmail.com, maybe we can set something up. ( I dont know we can openly say that here, since it's not our forums, but as an end user/purchaser I would find this a saleable ++ addition to a software package such as amember!) I can imagine that we would not be the only ones who would find something like this extremely useful. In general searches of the 'net I have not found anything close to it (either as a script or component of another program) - we might be searching with wrong terms as input though - heh.
You may also want to take a look at http://www.amember.com/integration.php . There is a chance such a plugin already exists. Tomas