Many to Many Relationship Page Protection

[Mike]

Hi,

My new site will have one page for each category. On each page will be a list of links to videos that members can purchase. They can purchase any or all links individually.

Joe could purchase link numbers 1, 6, 12, 35. Pete can purchase link numbers, 1, 8, 12, 22, 27, 35. Debbie can purchase the whole page as a group.

How do I make sure Joe, Pete, and Debbie can only click on the links they purchased with no expiration.

There will be hundreds of category pages with hundreds of links.

Creating a new membership level for each link is a nightmare.

Is there any way to protect content on a many-to-many relationship? Maybe protection based on member login instead of membership level?

The site is not up yet. I’m trying different membership software packages to see which one will do this.

Thanks,

Mike

[admin]

I think using the Pay Per View feature of eStore would be the best option for selling individual links:

http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/ecommerce/using-wordpress-permalinks-as-digital-products-apr-1217

If you plan to sell hundreds of links separately then using membership level is probably not the best way to do that. eMember uses membership level to define a relationship between items/content a member can access. In your case this won’t be ideal for obvious reasons.

You can still have a membership thing going… for example, a visitor has to be a *free* member before he can purchase anything but the links should be sold separately via eStore.

[Mike]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. I’m not sure you get the idea of what I want to do. The solution you suggest require thousands of pages to be created instead of thousands of levels. And, the access cookie expires.

I forgot to say that I am also using WP-Lightbox Ultimate. Each link opens a video or PDF. Here is what a page might look like. The “Buy” link would only show up next to videos you have not purchased.

Page Example:

Ubuntu Linux

1. Overview (free)

2. How to download Ubuntu (buy)

3. How to install Ubuntu

4. How to set up the network

5. How to customize the desktop

6. How to install software (buy)

7. How to configure wireless network (buy)

8. How to share using Samba

9. How to setup a printer (buy)

10. more stuff

11. more stuff

12. more stuff

13. more stuff

John has already purchased the links that do not have a buy link/button. John can access these links forever.

Pete has not bought anything yet. If Pete visits this page all videos would have a buy link/button next to them.

Debbie bought different videos then John. She can only view the ones she paid for forever.

Again, the videos are popped up using Lightbox Ultimate.

There would be hundreds of pages like this. Each page would be another topic, maybe a software package, maybe how to restore your 57 Chevy. Each page would have lots of links to popup videos. Each customer has to have access to only the links he/she purchased forever. (I might consider a limit if it makes it easier to do)

Mike

[admin]

I see… unfortunately, eStore or eMember won’t be able to handle the type of setup you need.

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