read/write with ratio and credits. MOD?

Posted by timhysniu 
read/write with ratio and credits. MOD?
September 04, 2005 03:29PM
Hello group,

I am interested in creating some kind of credits based forum where users earn credits by posting/uploading and spend credits by reading/downloading.

I also want to restrict unregistered users from reading more than some X number of messages. In other words, I want them to register if they're already browsing in my forums for a while.

Being quite fresh with Phorum and PHP, I am not sure yet what is the best way to start working on this. I am thinking, creating a MOD would be the best idea. Appart from using it myself, I can post it here as well.

My questions to the pro's are:

- How long should this take to implement (you can ignore my lack of expertise here)?
- Is there anything already available for phorum that does this?
- Lastly, do you think this credit idea is feasible? I mean from the business perspective? Do you think it will drive people away or get them stick around?

The site is up at www.bctutor.com
I hope someone can give me some feedback on this. This is my first Phorum, PHP & MySql Project so please critique as much as you can!

Thanks so much,
tim
Re: read/write with ratio and credits. MOD?
September 19, 2005 05:05PM
It sounds overly complicated. I have done a module for a client where unregistered users could not go past the first page of list.php. In his case, registered was paid.

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