Using ZenCart to give access to forum

[ian e]

Here's a hypothetical.

I'm in the process of building a web site for my music and I just got an idea.

Say I had a forum, like phpBB2, and I only wanted paying customers to have registering access.

Now, say a customer made their first purchase, and in the e-mail I gave them a randomly generated code for forum registration. And the code could only be used once.

Is this possible?

Thanks.

[TemplateKit]

Yes, we do this all the time. We're working on this for our http://www.neopolitics.com website. We deployed our catagory-less Zen build and when a user buys a "campaign-in-a-box" product - upon Zen checkout it creates a blog account & a PHPBB account and sends them the info.

We've found keeping it simple and not generating additional accounts with their own log/pass it optimum and makes the difference in the end.

[ian e]

Yes, we do this all the time. We're working on this for our http://www.neopolitics.com website. We deployed our catagory-less Zen build and when a user buys a "campaign-in-a-box" product - upon Zen checkout it creates a blog account & a PHPBB account and sends them the info.

We've found keeping it simple and not generating additional accounts with their own log/pass it optimum and makes the difference in the end.

Thanks for replying, from looking at your web site, this sounds exactly what I want to have happen:

1) How do you get ZenCart to create an account for a different program (in this case, phpBB)?

2) It looks like your forum members are able to have their own unique name despite ZenCart creating the account? I take it this is a luxury of phpBB where the user can change his/her name at their convenience? (I haven't fully looked into the functionalities of phpBB yet, but I'm leaning towards it, since it's...you know...free!).

[magicfun]

I'm looking to do this same idea as well with my forum and zen-cart. Any help would be great. Thanks.

[ibond2u]

Yes, that is a very good idea! Has anyone received a reply about the configuration basics on setting up this type of shop?

[ctcentralinfo]

I have seen this before but on the sight not in an email. I am not sure if it is a mod or if it comes with zen-cart itself. A random code is sent to verify the account, but those type of accounts can be a real pain in the neck.