I see there is a Drupal plugin for aMember. I've worked extensively with Drupal 4, 5, and 6 and am very familiar with it. I'm also moderately familiar with aMember since version 2.x. What experiences have aMember users had with the offered Drupal Plugin? I would *love* to use the Drupal CMS to handle my content and aMember to handle the access... my issue is that I already have a moderate-sized current subscriber base in aMember so I don't have the affordance of 'starting from scratch' with aMember & Drupal. Which user database does it use? How is account/product management handled? Any insight would be greatly appreciated! It's too bad the plugins don't have a try-before-you-buy version. I'd love to experiment with a copy of our aMember website and the Drupal plugin on an offline test machine to know if it'd be worth the $40 purchase price.
Hi press, Drupal plugin will enable single-sign-on and push user info from aMember db to Drupal db. So even if you already have a subscriber base in aMember, you can still use this plugin to "sync" the users via the "Rebuild DB" method, and all your users can enjoy single-sign-on feature in aMember. Lee
I know this is an older post, so my reply may not be helpful to the original creator, but for those who may read it in the future, I've had a phenomenal experience using Drupal with Amember. I'm managing a membership site for my training program (working with small businesses and marketing in the 21st Century), and had decided on Amember long before I quite figured out how to handle the content and functionality aspects of the site. As the training program and membership grew, I had cobbled together a WordPress installation (or 2 or 3) and a bbPress installation (for the discussion forums) and was using aMember and a cumbersome custom HTML page to handle downloadables. I made the switch to Drupal for content and functionality in February, 2009 and couldn't be more thrilled. It was my first experience with Drupal, so I had a learning curve on the development front, but even with that I am thrilled. Integration between Drupal and Amember has been smooth and trouble-free. Drupal access is a new field available to you in your "Edit Product" screen and with it you can define a Drupal role for subscribers to a given product. Users that don't yet exist in Drupal will be added, and then the plugin maintains "sync" between the separate Amember database and the Drupal one. When subscriptions expire, access to Drupal is cut off as you would expect. It's very much what you expect from the Amember team. Good stuff.