Hi
I am building a site which offers online training. After trying a number of possible combinations, including Joomla with Moodle and Simple Machines Forum, I am still not sure about the payment and access management system to use. I have used jFusion to integrate the login with the three systems, but there are some issues.

I am slowly coming away from the idea of using moodle and thinking that I can build individual courses just using sections, categories and articles. I'm happy with the forum.

So the question is: Can SUBS enable me to provide only paid access to a specific course in Moodle?

If not, can it provide access depending on course chosen to just the specific section, category and articles? If the latter is true, can I provide timed access, i.e. access based on a date for a specific category/article?

In the Forum, each Course has it's own Board, so here access also has to be restricted, so that users who sign up and pay only have access to the forum board relevant to them as well as the section/cats and articles?

Thanks for a clear answer.
Regards
David

CBSubs can restrict access to Sections, Categories, URLs, components, etc., so in that respect, the answer is yes to all of the above.

The only portion I'm not sure of is whether it can allow access based on a date. Someone else will have to address that issue, because, as far as I know, it's not possible out of the box except thru a specific date.

Thank you both for your answers.

The current plugins for managing subscribers is jFusion www.jfusion.org/ , which offers plugins for both SMF and Moodle amongst others.

I am happy to just use articles, categories and sections for the content I offer, but does that mean I won't need jFusion anymore, that CBSubs can take care of all of that, including access to the smf forum?

If yes, then most of my problems are solved.

Thinking about timed release. Can I perhaps just do that via the publishing date in the articles?

Thanks for feedback and ideas.

Regards
David

Post edited by: iamalive, at: 2009/11/08 13:20

Post edited by: iamalive, at: 2009/11/08 13:21

Again, great input. Thanks.

After a lot of looking around and reading, I have substituted the Agora Forum - very nice component - for SMF and decided to do provide the courses I'm building via sections, categories and articles. I may have to get some programming done, as suggested, to provide timed release of content, but that's not too major.

So, CBSubs now looks the right way to go and I've just bought a starter licence to see how it all works.

Thanks again.

Regards
David

Post edited by: iamalive, at: 2009/11/08 19:08