Is there a way to only allow access to site if user donated to you?

[Glenskie]

Is there some way to make it to where a user is only allowed to the site if they have donated to the site ? otherwise they get a page where it askes to donate to the site and then they can access the content in the back ? I would like to do this in PHP

[ginerjm]

Of course you can set something up.  Make the site secure so that they have to login to use it.  Only give them login credentials when they make a donation and you receive it.

 

Write the code and if you have a problem THEN post it here for help.

[DenRomano]

The suggestion that @ginerjm has is a much better solution then what I about to suggest t a VERY simple method would be this.  If you plan to use paypal to collect the donation then...

 

Paypal has a listener that it calls after any payment (or donation) to your website is made.  Check out

 

https://developer.paypal.com/docs/classic/ipn/ht_ipn/

 

And to this php file a little code that will add the the donors email address to a dataase.  Now you have a database of all your donors and you can ask them to enter their email address to login (no password needed)

[.josh]

Not to be pedantic, but the point of a donation is that it's not compulsory. If you require someone to give you money in exchange for something (be it product, service, access or anything else) then it's no longer a donation, but a fee.

 

I only mention this because that's how the tax people are going to look at it, and they will be expecting a cut, or else proof of exemption.

[l0gic]

Not to be pedantic, but the point of a donation is that it's not compulsory. If you require someone to give you money in exchange for something (be it product, service, access or anything else) then it's no longer a donation, but a fee.

 

I only mention this because that's how the tax people are going to look at it, and they will be expecting a cut, or else proof of exemption.

 

I would agree to with this, though maybe it's simply allowing donating users/members to see a "Thank you for donating." or "Your donation history." type of page.

 

The link posted by DenRomano should make for a good starting point.

[.josh]

..yeaahhhhhh.. except that totally doesn't sound like what he meant. But maybe he's not in America and maybe whatever country he's in doesn't have laws like that.