Good content subscription management system?

[benburch]

Does anybody know of a good content subscription management system that integrates with PayPal and runs under apache?

I see dozens of them for sale, but have no idea of what works well.

[salvorhardin]

1. Try Slashdot with this question

If you could write up your question with a little more detail on what you're looking for, what you plan to use it for, etc. then this would make a good question for an AskSlashdot. http://ask.slashdot.org

I think Plone will do what you're asking too. Plone is based on Zope (written in Python). http://plone.org

Anything I can think of off the top of my head though will need additional programming/customization to integrate it into PayPal. I assume you mean use PayPal's API so when a user tries to access, for instance, the Thom Hartmann archive section that the software checks to see if the user's subscription is current. In that regard, Plone is a good choice in that you can add functionality like that.

I'd be interested in what you find too.

[benburch]

2. I'll try that.

If they accept it, it will be the first time in a decade of submitting things that /. accepted one of my topics!

[salvorhardin]

3. The've never accepted any of my stuff either!

Still, I think this makes a pretty good Ask Slashdot.

Oh... I should have mentioned osCommerce too. The last time I looked some of their developers were trying to implement a subscription system. It also has a great developer and user community. http://www.oscommerce.com

Actually I just looked and osCommerce does support subscriptions.

There's also a project that fuses together osCommerce and phpNuke (Warning: May cause gravitational anomalies) called osC2Nuke. http://www.osc2nuke.com

[benburch]

4. They turned it down...

No surprise. I'll look into the oscommerce site. Thanks!

[salvorhardin]

5. Wankers

Yep, no surprise there. Perhaps if you could work gutting a Mac Mini into the question then maybe it stands a chance.

Good luck with the osCommerce site. There user and developer communities were really good the last time I used them (couple years ago) so you might just find what you need there.

[benburch]

6. I have a better idea...

Why don't I find a way to use an iMac Mini as a proctoscope for Commander Taco?

Might need a little bit of heatsink thermal grease to make it go in...