user access management possible?

[donnut]

Hi,

 

We are considering WHMCS to handle (paid) access to a web application we develop (written in PHP5 and MySQL using Yii framework).

 

Our clients can buy webapp functionality and we would like to know if WHMCS can handle this. I read the documentation and tried the demo. Should each functionality be handled as a product? So, if a client buys access to a feature (=product) we can check (using the WHMCS API) if that webapps feature should be made available to the client?

 

Thanks,

Erwin Poeze

MOPE

[laszlof]

Anything is possible, but it likely will not work how you'd like it to out of the box. Obviously some customization is going to have to be done, but it shouldnt be too difficult.

[donnut]

Anything is possible, but it likely will not work how you'd like it to out of the box. Obviously some customization is going to have to be done, but it shouldnt be too difficult.

 

Thanks for your reply. Do you mean customization on our side (which indeed is obviously necessary) or on the WHMCS side? And if you mean the latter, can this be done by us too, or does this concern non-editable source code?

[tripler]

Everything is editable and once you take a few passes at the documentation and the tpl and lang files you will be fairly good to go. I think Frank is just warning you to expect some hair pulling moments.

[donnut]

Everything is editable and once you take a few passes at the documentation and the tpl and lang files you will be fairly good to go. I think Frank is just warning you to expect some hair pulling moments.

 

I was wondering about the source being editable/accessable because the system requirements include Ioncube, suggesting that at least part of the code is closed-source.

 

But I'm trigger by this hair pulling. I'm a fairly experienced software developer. What should I expect? Is the code hard to understand or are there a lot of dependancies?

[bear]

I was wondering about the source being editable/accessable because the system requirements include Ioncube, suggesting that at least part of the code is closed-source.

Basically all of the core is encrypted, but the templates are not.

But I'm trigger by this hair pulling. I'm a fairly experienced software developer. What should I expect? Is the code hard to understand or are there a lot of dependancies?

Dealing with Smarty templates and various CSS files can sometimes be tricky. If you have experience with these, much less so. By itself, simple to work with; integrating and enhancing, that's where it gets tricky.