Hi,
First off, I hope this is the right forum for this topic...
I am a newbie to PHP but am needing to write a site for somebody on a server that only allows PHP (I am more used to ASP). This is good for me in a way as I want to learn PHP...
The site is a dating site and will allow people to register and they will pay a subscription for six months and can view others details, contact details etc.
They would be able to view others without registering but if they wish to view contact details they need to register and pay the subscription fee.
Really, at this time I am just after some advice on where to start. I guess I'm looking to writing a authentication system first and then getting into the subscription side of things. As I am new to PHP this is rather daunting to me and I would appreciate any help you could throw my way.
I thought maybe there was a CMS I could tailor to my needs but looking about and the only ones are commercial and wouldn't be ideal anyway.
Thanks for any help you can give me,
Housey
Some advice on a subscription site
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First start by building a user-registration system, which is fairly easy.. all it really is is a form that inserts fields into the database, and the login just verifies that there is a row with the given fields existing. Then you will add another field to your user's database with timestamp of when their subscription ends. You would check against this when they log in and you would update it every-time they pay you.