Can someone recommend a PHP/XHTML based solution for large and individual scale digital assets management?

Question

i'm trying to set up a site where a substantial amount of PDFs will be sold both individually and a subscription will be sold to a library - so anyone from that library can visit the site without a paywall (so, based on IP). think JSTOR, for example, or a newspaper archive.

I'm really comfortable with WordPress (can even dev plugins for them) but not sure something like this exists within the WP plugin (or set of plugin) worlds. If so, i would love to know!

If not, can someone point to a platform that is a) hopefully FOSS, b) can be developed with php/sql of some sort, and c) is user-friendly enough that a client can enter new PDFs herself and put them up for sale?

Answer 1

A reasonably popular system is Greenstone. It's widely used and FOSS. Not sure about the implementation language, but I don't think it's PHP (or SQL, for that matter). In any case, I believe you could do IP-limitation using some kind of webserver-level configuration.

It also certainly supports varying levels of user access, such that some users could use the administration interface in order to add documents. It's pretty easy in that regard.