Product Activation or Subscription Feature

[KGD]

Does TrueUpdate 2.0 incorporate any anti-piracy features such as a product activation or a subscription check feature? If not, any recommended products and/or services would be appreciated. Thank you.

[Brett]

TrueUpdate 2.0 is very flexible and can allow you to implement almost any system that you can think of. For example, if you have a customer subscription database on a Web server that is accessible through PHP, ASP, etc. TrueUpdate can easily POST data to a Web script. The Web script could then query the database to see if the customer is still entitled to updates and then return the status back to the TrueUpdate client which can the act accordingly.

As far as anti-piracy goes, your best bet is to protect your software with a security wrapper program. There are a number of these available on the market for developers to use.

[kerinbanner]

I have just purchased and want my update to check for a valid subscription on a MySQL table - Does anyone have a routine that demonstrates a good way og doing this please?

Thanks
Kerrin

[Mark]

Hi kerinbanner,

Well it depends on exactly what you are trying to accomplish, but the basic idea is that you submit information to your web script, which then checks your MySQL table to determine if the data submitted is valid or not.

Then the web script returns whether or not the data submitted was valid.

Take a look at this example posted by dwayne12 Howto: Web Serial Authentication (http://www.indigorose.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16945) it was written for Setup Factory 7.0 but you should have no trouble porting the code to TrueUpdate 2.0. All you will have to do is change the way that the validation occurs.

For some more information you might want to take a look at a few of these examples, some of them are not for TrueUpdate 2.0 or validation specifically, but the general idea and much of the code should remain the same:


http://www.indigorose.com/forums/showthread.php?t=18741
http://www.indigorose.com/forums/showpost.php?p=43348&postcount=1
http://www.indigorose.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14094

[kerinbanner]

Thanks Mark

That looks useful/ I know nothing about PHP - but can understand most of it so should be able to give it a go.

Thanks
Kerrin

[Jonas DK]

Sorry If Im not making sense.
I'm new to TrueUpdate but a keen AMS user and in so have resently build a project in AMS that actually lets you send and recieve data directly between the application and a MySQL Server via LuaSQL

As I said, I'm new to TU2 but I do belive that all the IR Star products build on the Lua Scripting capabillity and therefor If you make a Lua Script in one app you should be able to transfer it to all other (they may have to bee tweaked a bit to fit the local enviroment) as a general Idea, Am I correct in assuming this?

If so, this means that you could actively log user information in a database with out the use of php.

I made a sample of this in the AMS sample forum.
There is also a test app. for AMS if you have that installed containing the scripts and files needed to do this.

cheers,
Jonas