Woocommerce linked licensing system for your plugins

[orange]

@d-healey said in Woocommerce linked licensing system for your plugins:

Does that create a new order?

Yes it creates an order with "0" value, so the user will get download links, default file permissions like the regular orders.

[d.healey]

@orange Cool. I just wanted to check if that was the best way because that's what I'm doing :) I'm using a different license manager plugin though with a custom API.

[orange]

@d-healey said in Woocommerce linked licensing system for your plugins:

@orange Cool. I just wanted to check if that was the best way because that's what I'm doing :) I'm using a different license manager plugin though with a custom API.

Actually I've contacted to this plugin's developer and asked this system. Thanks him, to listem my endless requests, he is a great developer :) Then he added JWT Auth, Register License, Get User Licenses... and lot's of features and then released a new API v3 :) So this plugin is just for Hise users :)

[Lindon]

@orange - How did you deal with finding the correct folder on a Mac for your product...I assume that's where you are storing the license...

[d.healey]

@lindon I store mine in appData. const appData = FileSystem.getFolder(FileSystem.AppData);

Actually I don't store the license on the user's system, I just store a flag to indicate if they have a valid license once it's been confirmed by the server. From a security point of view it doesn't make much difference except if someone does de-encrypt the file they'll just find a flag instead of the license key.

[orange]

@lindon said in Woocommerce linked licensing system for your plugins:

@orange - How did you deal with finding the correct folder on a Mac for your product...I assume that's where you are storing the license...

FileSystem.getFolder(FileSystem.AppData) is the way to go as a reference point. And you can combine it with .getParentDirectory() and/or .createDirectory("Your License Folder") relatively to this reference point.

[Lindon]

@orange said in Woocommerce linked licensing system for your plugins:

@lindon said in Woocommerce linked licensing system for your plugins:

@orange - How did you deal with finding the correct folder on a Mac for your product...I assume that's where you are storing the license...

FileSystem.getFolder(FileSystem.AppData) is the way to go as a reference point. And you can combine it with .getParentDirectory() and/or .createDirectory("Your License Folder") relatively to this reference point.

& @d-healey ... yes obviously BUT:

FileSystem.AppData will point to the correct folder for the end-user product...but ONLY inside the end-user product.....

so I have a product called SynthSimple.... and a validation stand alone called myValidationApp.

inside SynthSimple the AppData folder points to:

C:/Users/joeBlo/AppData/Roaming/myCo/SynthSimple

inside myValidationApp it points to:

C:/Users/joeBlo/AppData/Roaming/myCo/myValidationApp

so myValidation App needs to put the validation key/flag/whatever inside the AppData folder for the end-product - not in its own folder....

So how do you do that?

[d.healey]

@lindon said in Woocommerce linked licensing system for your plugins:

So how do you do that?

fromAbsolutePath but not on master branch. You'll have to do as orange suggested and browse from the appData directory using getParentDirectory, getFolder, and getChildFile.

[orange]

@lindon

Why don't you put the validation key/flag...etc. inside the "C:/Users/joeBlo/AppData/Roaming/myCo/Validation Folder" for example?

So this folder will be a common folder for all software, even with or without Validation App. For example;

 const validationFolder  = FileSystem.getFolder(FileSystem.AppData).getParentDirectory().createDirectory("Validation Folder");

[Lindon]

@orange said in Woocommerce linked licensing system for your plugins:

@lindon

Why don't you put the validation key/flag...etc. inside the "C:/Users/joeBlo/AppData/Roaming/myCo/Validation Folder" for example?

So this folder will be a common folder for all software, even with or without Validation App. For example;

 const validationFolder  = FileSystem.getFolder(FileSystem.AppData).getParentDirectory().createDirectory("Validation Folder");

because its not even commonly "rooted" on MacOS...

[orange]

@lindon said in Woocommerce linked licensing system for your plugins:

because its not even commonly "rooted" on MacOS...

Yes AppData is common on both Win and Mac. This works here.

[Lindon]

@orange --er no its not. I t will be common on a single Mac but not between more than one Mac - well that's my understanding anyway.

[DabDab]

@orange . Congrats ! bro. Learning many things from you.

[Dan Korneff]

@orange Very interested in this. Well done!

[Fortune]

Wow that's awesome! I didn't know it is ppossible with Hise. You guys did great job @orange @ustk

That's very helpful, thank you so much for this great info. I will definitely use this!!!

[Matt_SF]

@orange great job !! And thank you for your insight !

[A Former User]

thank you so much @orange for this specific useful know how.

great work! :growing_heart:

what do you mean with cpu economic? are these queries slowing server?

[d.healey]

@steve-mohican said in Woocommerce linked licensing system for your plugins:

are these queries slowing server?

Every query requires processing resources, the less queries you make the better.

[A Former User]

@d-healey said in Woocommerce linked licensing system for your plugins:

Every query requires processing resources, the less queries you make the better.

Yes it's obvious. I just thought that this kind of api required backend process can't work with a standard wordpress website and AWS or something like that professional server system needed. So is this system in a standard hosting?

@orange @d-healey Which hosting plan are you using?

[d.healey]

@steve-mohican said in Woocommerce linked licensing system for your plugins:

So is this system in a standard hosting?

I use cheapo shared hosting, but I'm looking to switch to a VPS - not related to licensing, I just want a faster webstore for my customers, the current one has always been a little slower to load pages than I'd like.