Wednesday, April 15, 2009

AEC SOBI2 workflow

I have been working with paid membership sites using Joomla, SOBI2 and AEC Automatic Expiry Component.

After chasing my tail for a couple of weeks, by George I think I get it... mostly.

SOBI2 controls all of the directory listings but just the directory listings. Everything must be set to free.
AEC control all of the payments AND the membership levels. (Your do not want to have to manually set to Author or Publisher - sobi2 does this for you!)
I only have this running with three membership levels right now because I do not have ioncube on my host to allow advanced usergroups. Free Basic at $150/year or $15/month Pro at $247/year or $24/month

Some customizing of the Entry form, Vcard and Details templates must be done in SOBI2 - but it cannot be done without a query to AEC to determine the subscription the owner has.

The AEC - SOBI2 - AEC workflow looks something like this:
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5 comments:

  1. Hi,
    Could you please explain how you integrated AEC with SOBI
    thanks
    hello.neoo@gmail.com

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  2. This would be a real help too on how u managed to get that working together, great job!

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  3. Is there a way that you can control the number of sobi2 listings a member can create using this method?

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  4. Hi, i have problem setting AEC with login and sobi. after careful configuration when i am creating user its not selecting subscription.
    thanks
    yashpnd@gmail.com

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  5. hey, please can you explain me this sentence: but it cannot be done without a query to AEC to determine the subscription the owner has

    how can i make a query to AEC in the Template?

    best regards

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