coding a membership trial period

Hello,
I have an web application that I am working on, and am new to software development. I have used the WAT and Login tools to establish security on a couple of folders. I have this working, and am developing the next step. I would like to set up a 14 day free trial for new users. Upon expiration, I plan to send them to a payment gateway that will charge a small fee to continue membership. I have never programmed something like this before, so please forgive me for my lack of programming know-how. I have searched the major search engines and other discussion boards to no avail. If I could find someone to help walk me through this, I would be eternally grateful
I have read a few chapters in various books, and watched several videos, but none provide me with an example of which I can model and follow. I have put together a few lines of code, that don't work, however it is a start. Here is what I have:
protected void Login1_Authenticate(object sender, AuthenticateEventArgs e)
{
bool validUser;
Membership.GetUser(validUser);
if (validUser < 14)
continue Membership.GetUser();
else(validUser >= 14)
MessageBox.Show("Your trial membership has expired.");
Response.Redirect(Http://www.paypal.com);
}

I am not sure how much this will help since I haven't develop a membership system before, but I am assuming that you want different membership types like: Basic, Silver, Gold. If you have an Accounts table for the user I would have a column with a constraint to your [MembershipType] lookup table. By default all new user registration will be set to Basic unless they decide to register.

I would make sure that you are also storing [CreatedDate] and base your logic on that field. You can encapsulate your Login functionality into an static method in the Account class.

public static Account Login(string username, string password)

{

// Credential user

// Check MembershipType

if (Basic && 14 passed) // Calculated with [CreatedDate]

Server.Transfer("www.paypal.com");

else

// Send to homepage

// Return Account object if you want

return Account instance.

}

Hope that helps!

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Felipe Ramos16y ago
I am not sure how much this will help since I haven't develop a membership system before, but I am assuming that you want different membership types like: Basic, Silver, Gold. If you have an Accounts table for the user I would have a column with a constraint to your [MembershipType] lookup table. By default all new user registration will be set to Basic unless they decide to register.
I would make sure that you are also storing [CreatedDate] and base your logic on that field. You can encapsulate your Login functionality into an static method in the Account class.

public static Account Login(string username, string password)
{
// Credential user
// Check MembershipType
if (Basic && 14 passed) // Calculated with [CreatedDate]
Server.Transfer("www.paypal.com");
else
// Send to homepage

// Return Account object if you want
return Account instance.
}

Hope that helps!