Hi I was hoping to create a content management system, and the way I was hoping to do it was running an installation program that would create a 'cms' sub-directory on the target server and also add all the required pages etc.
So far I can work out a way to do all of this. The thing I was wondering if there is a way to "license" the cms.
I was hoping that on each page in the cms there is a kind of check to make sure the user has actually bought the cms, such as a check against a remote database, maybe using a web service. I could work out a way to do this, but it would be in the code behind for example
private void validateSite()
{
//Connect to remote database and pass current url as parameter
//add SQLDataReader
//if reader.hasRows() == false - so the site is not valid
// then redirect to error page
}
but if the user of the website has any experience of ...
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