Hope someone can develop a new plugin for Joomla! 1.5.x to do the "register to read fulltext" job.
I had tested some other content protect plugin for Joomla! 1.5.x, but they are not easy to use.
What I want is such a simple plugin:
When enabled, this plugin will replace the original "Read More" link with another link to the Registration page, the link text and title will show as "Please register to read the fulltext". Of course these words can be customized in the parameters of this plugin.
And the link to registration page also can be specified if the website uses other registration component instead of the original Joomla! registration page.
When the visitor login in, the "Read More" link will appear again and this plugin seems vanished.
What is the difference between this plugin and other existing plugins? This plugin does not require ANY manual inserting of tag/code into the content which need to be protected. It just take effect for each article AUTOMATICALLY. The public visitor can only read the IntroText with a reminding link below.
Of course you can add more parameters, for example, exclue section/category/article.
If someone finished such a plugin, I hope he/she will release it as free software.
Thank you very much.