Timed Release - Video Tutorial site - 64 episodes- Newbie, Some guidance please

hi,

I’m new to MODx and have decided to go with this CMS as I’ve a ’hunch’ that it’ll work best in the long run. (It seems to tick all the right boxes)

I’ve spent a few days familiarising myself with everything, but I’m still going through the documentation and getting my head around it all. This is the first CMS I’ve used - Up until now I have made sites with static XHTML/CSS and have experimented with PHP while on a web-technologies course.

I need some guidance as to how to build a web-user environment that allows the ’timed release’ of content depending on a members sign up date.

There are 64 videos and each user should only be able to see 1 video one week at a time...

(i.e. they will only be able to view the videos for the amount of weeks they’ve been signed up for) E.G. videos 1-7 if they’ve been a member for 7 weeks and videos 1-64 if they’ve been a member for 64 weeks etc.

I think this ’may’ be quite simple to implement, although I’m not quite sure about the best way to go about it.

Will I have to create some custom snippets, or are there modules, plugins that would easily suit this?

(would ’wayfinder’ be the way to go with this?)

Does the default installation cater for this sort of thing all ready?

Please excuse if the answer to this is obvious, but I want to get this right... Any suggestions?

Many Thanks in advance,

Ben

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my set-up so far

MODx - latest version 0.9.6.1p2

I’m using 1and1 servers
mySQL 5.0
PHP Version 5.2.6 (upgraded from 4.4.8. with .htaccess file which includes ’AddType x-mapp-php5 .php’)

Also For the Video player, I’m using

JW FLV MEDIA PLAYER 4.0
http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=JW_FLV_Media_Player

with the following snippet:

// SNIPPET NAME: JWPlayer
// SNIPPET DESCRIPTION: A Snippet to place the JW FLV Player into a MODx Page
// VERSION 1.1

You’ll need a user-registration system (WebLogin PE should do the trick) also. How you implement the weekly release of videos could be done in several ways from a plugin that checks the number of weeks and adds them to a new group with the appropriate permissions to a simple snippet that bounces them out of the page if they’ve not been a member long enough. Lots of options on the last bit...

thanks for pointing me in the right direction Ryan,

I’m still going through the documentation... it’s starting to make sense.

cheers