Premium/Moderator - How to make Premium Membership/Moderator special features

AdriaN401MasteR · Jul 27, 2010

Some of you may want to earn money from your game, show ads that only normal users (not premium) can see, and add some modules that just premium members can use..

This tutorial can be used to create a Moderator group also that can see only the pages you want them to see.

So, let's start with the easy part. The database.
We will add Moderator and Premium columns ( that's the way I want to do it, if you want to do it your way than your are free to do that ):

PHP:

ALTER TABLE `game_users` 
ADD `Premium` INT(1) NOT NULL,
ADD `Moderator` INT(1) NOT NULL

Now create a template notpremium.tpl

PHP:

<style type="text/css">
<!--
.style7 {color: #FF0000}
.style8 {
	color: #FFFF00;
	font-weight: bold;
}
-->
</style>
<br />
<table width="672" colspan="4">
<tr><td class="c" colspan="9"><center>
  <font color=red><b>Premium Membership</b></font>
</center></td></tr>
<tr>
  <th colspan="9"><p>You do not have access to this section/feature because you do not own a Premium Membership Package.</p>
    <p><a href="donate.php">For more informations, click here.</a></p>
    <p> Donating to our community is in the benefit of both sides. As we all know nothing is     free and will never be. We are currently hosting a dedicated server which we payed for a couple of months     ahead. We expect that  we can reach the necesary sum to continue this server for    our players. We offer you the chance of buying ingame utilities for this donations. You win, you get     a server and items and we get the pleasure of a growing community. </p>
    <p> </p>
    <p><br />
    </p></th>
</tr>
</table> 
</body> 
</html>

Don't complain about HTML structure

Now choose the files you want to hide from normal users. Let's say simulator.php.

At the beginning you have

PHP:

define('INSIDE'  , true);
define('INSTALL' , false);

$xnova_root_path = './';
include($xnova_root_path . 'extension.inc');
include($xnova_root_path . 'common.' . $phpEx);

if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {;

And So On

After include($xnova_root_path . 'common.' . $phpEx); or include($ugumela_root_path . 'common.' . $phpEx);, add before anything else:

PHP:

if(($user['Premium']=="")||($user['Premium']=="0")) {
$body = gettemplate('notpremium');
$page = parsetemplate($body, $parse);
display($page, $lang['Chat'], false);

}else{

And a } at the end of the file.

So you will have:

PHP:

<?php

/**
* Trinity Dev
*/

define('INSIDE'  , true);
define('INSTALL' , false);

$xnova_root_path = './';
include($xnova_root_path . 'extension.inc');
include($xnova_root_path . 'common.' . $phpEx);

if(($user['Premium']=="")||($user['Premium']=="0")) {
$body = gettemplate('notpremium');
$page = parsetemplate($body, $parse);
display($page, $lang['Chat'], false);

}else{

and a } at the end of the file.

That will show the template we created above to any users that has nothing or 0 in the Premium column. So in that template you will post a Buy A Premium Account message :closedeyes:

If you want to show this page only to mods then instead of if(($user['Premium']=="")||($user['Premium']=="0")) make it if(($user['Moderator']=="")||($user['Moderator']=="0")) or if you want to work with authleve then if($user['authlevel']>1).

You can do that on any page.

Now let's say you want to add some ads.

In the php code of the page you want to have the ads on, add:

PHP:

if(($user['Premium']=="")||($user['Premium']=="0")||($user['Moderator']=="0")||($user['Moderator']==""))
$ads="ad html code/script code / blabla";
else
$ads="";
$parse['adverts']=$ads;

And on the TPL template add {adverts} where you want the ads to be. They will appear to non-premium and non-mods.. you can also add an exception so it wont show to admins...

Anyway that's the way to do it. You can add Please Upgrade messages and anything else you want.

On my files I've also added some button so I can easely make and unmake users premium from the admin panel.. upgrade planets.. etc. Also I've added some columns to know when the user has become premium, what premium account he has, how many days and how much he paid for it...you can do that to

.

If you need more help just post it.

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aropop · Jul 27, 2010

I dont want to be flaming, but just simply hiding pages from people? Isn't that like evil

. But the ads idea I used too myself.
Also i have the system that people buy a building from god (=admin) and for each level they have it they unlock beter buildings and ships and etc.
Though nice work

AdriaN401MasteR · Jul 27, 2010

I always wanted to change my name in Evil Adrian or something like that...

You can use it for any premium features.. but I do not need to tell you that xD.. so I won't