membership

PHP possible to lock downloaded content?

Hi There, I am currently working on a project that will work on a membership system. The theory behind the website is that you can download electronic (PDF) versions of a magazine, if you are a paying member of the website. The problem arises in that after downloading the PDF it can be sent to anyone and accessed by anyone. Is ther...

List membership in Python without "in"

How to define a function is_member() that takes a value (i.e. a number, string, etc) x and a list of values a, and returns True if x is a member of a, False otherwise. (Note that this is exactly what the in operator does, but for the sake of the exercise I should pretend Python did not have this operator. This is what I've come up with,...

Tying MembershipUser and Web.Profile together for newly created users

I am using ASP.NET MVC 3. I am using what essentially came with for free in the Visual Studio project template for an MVC project with the "Internet Application" option. Basically this brings in Forms authentication and provides some basic elements to manage user login and stuff. I am also using the web profiles stuff with this to store...