evening all,

im currently working on a "listing" style website.
users will be able to sign up and list their holiday homes/properties similar to what you see here: http://www.ownersdirect.co.uk/brazil-north-east-2bed.htm

ideally, i plan to have users create a profile on my site, then subscribe with paypal to "publish" their listing.
so far I have installed the "memberprofiles" module which i THIK will work fine. I will just add lots more fields to the members page, and a has_many for all of the property images.

paypals subscription/recurring payments seems easy enough, i just need to tweak it all a little to get it working.

basically i wondered if anybody has any experience at all with this? will the memberprofiles module be suffice? what about if my users have more than 1 property? will they have to create a profile for each one? (thats not ideal!)

also, i was thinking of just listing the "profiles" in a loop on the front end to browse the property listings, and have the IPN write to the database with either a 0 or 1 for paid or unpaid, with an IF statement in the loop which queries the database, to ensure only paid listings are displayed.

i have NO experience at all with subscriptions, or the best way to deal with listings like this, is any of the above feasible or am i way off the mark here for how this should be done....

thanks in advance for any help you can share!

What are you storing the data as? Are you storing it as a data object linked to a member profile? In that case just show that in the template. As for the listings just add them as a has_many-relationship to the member profiles if you haven't already.

Umm yes and no. If you don't know how to setup a has_many-relationship then you really need to read the basic tutorials, they cover all of this. They're available here: http://doc.silverstripe.org/sapphire/en/. Pay special attention to chapter 5 about relationships. What you want to do is either add the paypal stuff directly to the member profile or add that as a has_one so that the paypal info gets connected to a member.

I really recommend that you let them register on your site first and then sending them to paypal so you know who they are when you get the IPN data from paypal.