I have a website where the users can subscribe free, then if they want, they can buy the annual premoim subscription.
I use CB and CB Subs for subscriptions, then uddeIM for PM.
I'm trying to achieve the result where a free user can send (for example) just 10 messages per day, instead a premium user can send unlimited messages to other users.
Anybody, please, have ideas to how to "melt" the functions of CB Subs to limit uddeIM messages?
As I haven't found nothing ready online, I have written that function directly by code, but I had to override one file of uddeIM; I haven't found a cleaner way.
In the code I read one column of CB database. This parameter is changed automatically by CB when an user buy the premium subscription on the website. Then, by reading this parameter, I have set the limit of messages for free users.
Would be really nice to see this feature integrated in the next release of uddeIM.
I am currently looking to implement the exact same solution, I was wondering how your work-around worked out? Did it work successfully? Which file did you write the function in? any advice you can offer would be greatly appreciated.
Ciao Rob,
I've did that in 2016, I don't remember nowadays the exact code.
Besides the patched file was "includes.php", close to the end, where the send button is generated.
I have created a custom field in CB with the max number of messages allowed; this field is changed from CB Subscriptions plans, after payment. Then, in that file, I've retrieved the value of that field for the current user and I've managed to print or not the send button in uddeIM.
That's everything what I have in mind at the moment. It would be nice to create a plugin or a "file patcher" for that purpose, but the requests are not so many and the creation is not so easy without the modification of that file (I don't like to modify core files, but I like to create overrides).
Hope that could help you, somehow.
Kind regards,
Gregorio
Many thanks for the quick response, I was thinking of having a reference table mapped to Joomla user Groups, as the subscriptions change the user groups, I can then use the JFactory getuser function and map the user to the group to get the message allowance then do a count(*) of messages sent for that user ID for that day and include an if count >= allowance to hide the send mail button and echo a "message limit reached" string.
In theory this should work but I'm not a developer so am now learning some PHP.. thanks for your advice, wish me luck. .
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