Protect URL to Presentation

[keane]

I am new to E-member and hoping to get some advice.

My Site:

I am making a member site that contains elearning modules developed with Adobe presenter and captivate. The files for the presentation (there are many) are in folder on my hosting server and not in wordpress. The presentation is launched using a htm page–you go to the page and the presentation starts in your browser. The presentation is interactive so participants are clicking the screen in various sections. Based on your membership level you will get to see certain presentations.

My question:

Can eMember limit access to my presentation? I don’t want anyone except the members of at a specific level to see the presentation. If not, is there a way I could play the presentation through a plugin which does not show the URL or perhaps a way to encrypt the URL?

Thanks in advance.

Keane

How can I make it so that the url

[admin]

eMember can’t really protect content outside of WordPress environment since it is a WordPress plugin. Can you embed these presentations inside a WordPress post or page rather than keeping them as stand alone HTML page? Since it is an adobe product chances are that they have a plugin to embed the presentation in a page created by the popular content management systems (WordPress, Joomla, Drupal etc.).

[keane]

Thanks for the response. I have been looking high and low for a player that works well. It has to be one that I can make full screen and one that will allow clicks to move the presentation forward. Perhaps my newness to WP is getting in my way. I would even settle for a plugin that encrypts the url for the presentation.

Does anyone have any suggestions? I would really like to use eMember.

[admin]

You could do the following (it sounds a little complex but if you setup one product as an example and try it out you will get the point):

1. Setup a pay per view for your stand alone HTML pages. Check the “Old Pay Per View Method” from this page:

http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/ecommerce/setting-up-pay-per-view-option-using-wp-estore-plugin-1066

When you use this method the URL of your stand alone HTML page will be masked so the viewer won’t see the true URL.

2. Now, all you need to do is let the members access the content. So, create a WordPress page called “Members only Content” (you can call it whatever.. I am just giving an example)

3. Place the following shortcode on that page:

[wp_eStore_download_now_button id=1]

This shortcode will display a button called “Download now” (you can customize this button). When you click on this button it generates an encrypted link on the fly for product 1 (assuming 1 is the product ID of the product you created in step 1) and let the user view the presentation (the URL of the actual page will be hidden).

4. Finally, protect this “Members only Content” page using eMember so only your members can see the content and interact with that button that lets them view the presentation without actually knowing the true URL of the stand alone HTML page.

[keane]

Wow great idea and it worked! The only problem is that I have about 5 different videos and customers can buy any one of those 5.

So customer A buys videos 1 and 2. They go to the members section and they would be able to see the link for video 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.

Is there a way I can automatically link different membership levels with different video’s purchased? So when customer A buys videos 1 and 2 he/she is granted to membership levels were she can see link to video 1 on a page and link to video 2 on a second page?

[admin]

You can have as many “Members Only Download” page as you want (each containing the links for the corresponding video). So each of your membership levels can have a separate member’s only download page. For example:

Silver Member Only Content

– Place the links to the videos for this membership level on this page

– Protect this page so only silver members can access this page

– When someone pays for this level he can only see this presentation

Gold Member Only Content

– Place the links to the videos for this membership level on this page

– Protect this page so only gold members can access this page

– When someone pays for this level he can only see this presentation

I am sure you get the idea.

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