It seems there are a number of ways to skin this cat - I'm currently wrestling with it myself. Let me first explain my intent and goal: to have a joomla membership site protected by amember that that does billing with a 3rd party visa/CC partner (I have this part worked out). Ideally guests could browse most of the boards and the homepage.. I'd like people to be able to register for free so they could post on boards and have a low level of controlled access and interaction... but I'd also like to give premium paid members the ability to access additional areas or components. Up to now I've given up on the extra level of premium access and thought the best way to manage the site was guest = nothing, registred = access... and have the entire site "behind the wall" of protected directories. So I understand that the amember/joomla plugin doesn't protect content like modules or components in joomla directly... But I know it let's you assign the joomla membership level when they join - which makes me wonder if you could take a core level like "author" which is almost like "registered" but has some publishing ability - and remove publishing links (if not functions) from the frontend or the user permissions and use one of the many available extensions to limit premium content/module/component access to the "author" level... and have amember assign paid members this level... ideally I could just mod the english language file as well to change it to a name like "member"... There are a few interesting and free Joomla extensions that allow you to control menus and groups but I don't know if they really protect the content or if they just hide the menus (allowing people to poke around doing manual URL snooping - no real protection at all) Also considering running the premium content out of a lower directory than the joomla site and letting amember protect it if the method above doesn't work well... like a coppermine/joomla bridge to this external directory - joomla remains open access and amember controls the premium content access and and assignment of joomla user groups to keep the menu options an core joomla features appropriate to the users guest/registered/"author"(member) here are a few of the ACL management extensions I'm looking at: http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/access-&-security/frontend-access-control/4100/details http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/access-&-security/backend-&-full-access-control/7010/details http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/access-&-security/frontend-access-control/7020/details (hold mouse over link to see extension name in status bar at the bottom of browser) I'm curious if anyone else has worked with these or attempted this... or used AEC with joomla+amember with any success? thanks in advance for any advice or experience you might be able to share with this... Paul
Check out the JACL plugin from BYOS, it will allow you to create additional user levels that can be connected to amember to restrict access to articles. David
Hi David, I am currently creating a Online Educational Business based on Joomla 1.5.8 I run a JACL Plus Pro setup combined with CB 1.2 and Virtuemart 1.3 Right now I am working on implementing the Product and course selling part of the site. I will be selling both regular one time fee products such as e-books etc as well as monthly continuity subscription courses. Right now I am having a VERY HARD time finding a good solution to the subscription part. However from what I have seen so far from Amember it is definetly looking good. I wonder if you can explain how Amember could work with JACL Pro as I already have a course setup with JACL Plus Pro user levels. (Regular joomla content like course section divided into 4 phases of categories with articles in each). How can I get Amember to handle the subscription and automate the user level rights like when they don't pay they loose user level access until they pay again? I am very grateful for your time and feedback as my site development has crawled to a halt pending a solution to the payments and subscription situation on my site. -Tobias Fransson Online Business The Stupidly Simple Way https://www.Tobias-Fransson.com
Akuma have you tried noixACL? http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/access-&-security/backend-&-full-access-control/7010/details I've been using JACLpro by Byos, but I think their support sucks and updates are slooooow. Hence I've been looking for a substitute until a decent ACL is fully implemented in Joomla 1.6. When I can find the time I'll test to see if noixACL will work.
Has anyone done it the way that Paul mentioned in the first post...by making paid members with 'Author' level permissions? Any other ideas would be appreciated.
Well, we can create user groups in JACL. That point is clear.. But how do we connect amember different signup links for those different user group sign up ??