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Hi,

Here’s what I’d like to do:

Site A, B and C each have 3 different membership levels. Free, Basic and Deluxe.

I’d like to use a common member login but only give access to the other sites, when they’ve paid for that site.

Example:

John joins Site A as Deluxe Member. Later he purchases a Basic membership for Site C. Still later, he purchases a Deluxe Membership for Site B.

My Questions:

* can this be done with MultiSite Manager?
* if it requires custom programming, are there any hooks available for MSM that would help in achieving this?

Thanks,

Jer

Hm.  Well- you could do a membership level for each possible combination- which is rather a lot.  But it’s the main way I can think of.  But I think it’s doable- just rather confusing.  But does the approach make sense?  The register only once- and then any additional sites/levels they want to add result in a change in membership level.  Working out all of the permutations, though…  It would take some thought.

Hm.  Well- you could do a membership level for each possible combination- which is rather a lot.  But it’s the main way I can think of.  But I think it’s doable- just rather confusing.  But does the approach make sense?  The register only once- and then any additional sites/levels they want to add result in a change in membership level.  Working out all of the permutations, though…  It would take some thought.

HI Robin,

It’s not really a change in membership level that’s important, it’s the ability to have one login among multiple sites AND allow the person to only access the product/services that they have paid for.

I have thought of a fairly simple way to do so.

* set up an Access Control List table. Fields: member_id, site_id, product_id,status,date

When I person purchases a product, info like: “2007,2,6,1,2007-08-02” is added.

* On the pages that are protected, use a plugin or custom query to determine if they have access.

* Do a check “if (MemberGroup == 6 and AccessFlag == Y ) then allow access (through an embeded file), otherwise load the Join embed file.

So, in theory it looks relatively easy, just not doable out of the box.

Jer

Ah- my bad.  I was thinking it was a site access thing- if it’s an entry access thing- with products being entries- then yep, that’s how I’d do it.  And it wouldn’t be difficult at all- just need an interface for record keeping- how that happens would depend on how they’ll be paying.