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Mal Membership allows for a members only section and ability to hold contests.
<h3>Arbitrary section</h3>
A description of the table structure ( out of date do not rely on this )
Table: mal_contest
<pre><code> ID = auto increment number
 status = pending,active,completed,cancelled
 start_date = the date/time the contest starts format: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS
 end_date = the date/time the contest ends format: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS
</code></pre>
Table: mal_members
<pre><code> ID = auto increment number
 status = pending,active,disabled
</code></pre>
Table: mal_prize
<pre><code> ID = auto increment number
 status = pending,active,disabled
 contest_id = ID of the mal_contest this is associated to
</code></pre>
Table: mal_contest_data
<pre><code> ( This table has all the details regarding the contest )

 ID = auto increment number
 contest_id = ID of the mal_contest this is associated to
 value = description
</code></pre>
Table: mal_member_data
<pre><code> ( This table has all the details regarding the member )

 ID = auto increment number
 user_id = ID of the mal_contest this is associated to
 value = description of member
</code></pre>
Table: mal_prize_data
<pre><code> ( This table has all the details regarding the prize )

 ID = auto increment number
 prize_id = ID of the mal_contest this is associated to
 value = description of prize
</code></pre>
Table: Javascript for date/time
<pre><code> http://www.ama3.com/anytime/
</code></pre>
Please let me know if you have any questions. russell@russellalbin.com
<h3>A brief Markdown Example</h3>

Mal Membership

Members only section and hold contests - UNDER CONSTRUCTION!!! BE PATIENT

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This WordPress plugin restricts non-authenticated users to a number of pages to view. You can define how many pages an unauthenticated user may view. If the limit is reached, the user is redirected to the WordPress login page (default) or a page of your choice.
This plugin uses cookies, but not only. People can not just empty their cookies and start watching your page again. In this plugin i use a technique in which I combine a users’ IP address with the user agent of this particular user, and create a more or less unique hash out of these two informations. This hash is stored as a file in the wp-content/uploads directory.
A site administrator can choose to reinitialize all sessions and empty the hash files.
Furthermore, robots might be blocked. However, important bots like GoogleBot, BingBot and YahooBot are excluded from the restriction.
This technique might be problematic for users using Tor / TorBrowserBundle as lots of people share a same originating IP address and also the same user agent (check here https://panopticlick.eff.org/). I will certainly test this aspect a little better in a later version of this plugin.

Pageview content restriction

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Mal Membership vs Pageview content restriction