[Gllug] Membership system: recommendations please

[David L Neil Mailing list a/c]

Am looking for a (relatively simple) membership system which will track
society members and the status of annual fee payments, which can also be
hooked up to Apache authentication. Would welcome your recommendations
please?

- >1,000 members currently on massive htpasswd file!!!???
- 'members list' currently on user PC = Micros~1 Excel.xls
- external web hosting: LAMP, Plesk, command-line access
- any LDAP, Radius, Kerberos, etc would be add-on to existing spec
- NO credit card (etc) records kept
- encryption of passwords
- user password update/choice, plus auto password reset by email
- membership payment online/links to payment mechanisms a bonus
- eliminate double-handling between membership secretary and webmaster
- webmaster to devolve operational stuff to membership secretary
(separate access rights, ie mem/sec not messing with web site...)
- web site is HTML hand-code
- public areas of web site are open access
- Members-only area includes upload rights
- could look at Drupal or other CMS...
- wiki is access controlled, and needs own editor (cf webmaster)
- dual level access: registered wiki users (only) and society members
- wiki runs on MediaWiki (which has LDAP etc add-ons)
- research database available only to full members (PHP)
- other 'membership functions' eg lookups, may be nothing to do with
online facilities per-se, eg exhibition/meeting entry, discounted
purchase privileges; hence need for 'membership system' not just web
authentication...

Any and all suggestions (and gotcha-warnings) will be appreciated.
Regards,
=dn
(suffering the lurgi and hoping he makes (enough) sense)
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