Hi all
I am building a membership app with SEBLOD and it works OK so far, but I’m only dealing with the current year’s membership subscription. When the current year’s membership expires, all the members will need to renew their subscriptions, so I need the app to accommodate this. Either I have a field for each year (but not a calendar year - the user needs to set the start and/or end date) or a way to reset the current subscriptions to zero (not the preferred method). I could manually set up a field for each year, but it would be much better if the app could automate this.
Has anyone ever tried to build a membership app and if so, how do you cope with annual subscription renewal?
Hope this makes sense!
Thanks,
Steve
Hi
When the user signs up, you could take the start date, add a year, and then store that in end date field. maybe do that in computation section or yourself with joomla methods or plain php in beforestore....
Then have list of stuff that shows if current user end date is greater than now... make sense?
The break field may help with rendering content only if the above condition is met....
Thanks for the quick reply Bucklash.
That makes sense and I’m sure it would work but the membership I’m working with has a fixed expiry date every year. So no matter when a user signs up, their subscription will expire on, say, 1st May. This was my scenario:
- Create a new User Group (Members)
- Create a field within it called expiry date (1st May)
- Create an expiry date field in each User (Member) record which gets its value from the above and includes a conditional statement that if expiry date < today, then another field (PAID) = No
Hi
Many ways to think about this.... i would use code pack with some php stuff to help me, i.e addToGroup()
- The usergroup has master expiry,
- when the user becomes subscriber the user form saves this value in user data.
- the usergroup expiry value gets updated
- user expiry updates to usergroup expiry when user renews membership
- using beforerender apply php, if expiry < now(), removeFromGroup()
Not sure how I would do it with just the seblod ui stuff ie conditionals etc
Yes, I was afraid you were going to say that...
It's years since I did any php and I didn't understand much of it then! Anyway, I've downloaded the Code Pack and I'll dust off my old php book (maybe buy a new one) and plunge in. It's probably about time as I'm looking to use SEBLOD for a few other things and I think you need some php and possibly JavaScript knowledge to make more serious apps.
Thanks for all your help and advice, Bucklash.
Cheers
Hi
Yeah, you really gonna need php at some point.
The new manuals are pretty good especially the developer part as it features newer methods along with joomla docs
Just had a quick look at the developer manuals... er, maybe it’ll make more sense to me after I’ve re-learned some PHP!
Cheers again!
