Give Free Memberships

The membership setup on dolphin 7 seems.... limited. Im trying to find a way to create a membership level, and then just give it for free. I dont want my web viewers to have to go through their paypal or anything, I would prefer not to plug into my paypal, but just have multiple membership types that my users can join free. Say if I was building a cite for musicians, I would want to have a Guitar player membership, and a drummer membership with special forum acess. Thats not my exact use but just an example.

I dont want to pay pay to fix this problem, it seems basic, if anyone can help me I would really appreciate it.

Bump!

I have been asking this question. Other than the Standard membership no one is offering up how to offer multiple free memberships.

Doesn't seem possible without some modifications. You can apply the membership level manually, but this doesn't work for a live website. The only way to do it seems to be by setting the price zero, but it makes no sense to still have to purchase it.

I have free memberships set up as I have created administrator and moderator member levels.

The only issue is that these have to be manually assigned.

I have a free mod to automatically assign membership level that could possibly be modified to select a member level based on a profile field.

http://www.boonex.com/unity/extensions/entry/FREE_MOD_DeeEmm_Auto_Member_Level

But this only applies when the member joins.

Only other way I can think of achieving this is to modify pedit.php

- First add a field to the profile - a drop down selector that contains all member levels

- Then in pedit - test for value of this field when the profile is saved

- Add / remove membership level as required. (SQL Query)

However...

It is worth considering that the member can only be assigned one member level - not good if you have a member who is both a guitarist and a drummer - in this case it is better to give automatic group membership - which incidentally might be what you really need as each group has a dedicated forum etc.

In this case you need a different mod -

http://www.boonex.com/unity/extensions/entry/FREE_MOD_DeeEmm_Auto_Group_Fan_On_Join_MOD

I was working on a premium version of this with an admin panel interface - to be able to set up custom profile fields via the admin panel that could be associated with groups. It even had some boolean functions to be able to select group membership from a variety of profile fields.

Again - this only works on join - not when profile is edited, so might need to be modified to do what you need.

HTH

/DM

 Thank you for the guidance. I will study this in depth and see if it is a short term solution until Dolphin 8 is ready, whenever that may be.

I am trying to accomplish the FREE MOD - DeeEmm Auto Member Level and have a few questions that i was hoping someone could answer.

- How do you assign free memberships without going through paypal and any type of payment process? Other core coding changes need to take place and if so what?

-Where can i find the name of the membership (FEMALE_MEMBERSHIP_ID in your example).  My membership is 'Worker' so is it just WORKER_MEMBERSHIP_ID???

-Does membership mod have to be installed to accomplish this and if so how without also installing paypal? this goes with question 1

thank you