Is this possible in Wordpress?
 

Lets say I have a WP site running a video tube theme...

I want to let someone watch two videos, any two videos they choose, but when they click a third video, I want them to have to sign up to the WP site.

Possible? how is it done?

Sure, why not? Just increment a counter upon a video being watched, and then let the page return a sign-up page instead of a video if the counter is greater than two.

my first thought would be that all the videos would have to be in a php widget with the code to count them or php scripting in the post itself

And, if the user is logged in, of course, ignore the check.

Nah, not necessary. You can send an event from JS, or really any other language.

Set a cookie that contains a number. Each view of a movie page increments the counter by 1. When you reach max views per page, either a) redirect to the signup page or b) display a message with a greyed out flash player and a message prompting the surfer to signup. If you wanted to do (b) then you could use a WP custom field to hold that html.

Put the cookie increment counter / redirect in header.php of course.

Yup, or a PHP session, so they can't just trash their cookies to see more videos.

I suppose there isnt a plugin to make this simple...

Edgeprod = your plug in

Not sure if exactly right but It might work like you want http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/membership/

Lead Wrench should offer this. Should be a simple task. I'm setting something up for my mainstream sites to capture leads and this would be great for adult. When I sober up in the morning I'll have a solution :)

I dont have a problem integrating the joins to leadwrench, I have a problem counting to two :)

I can't count that high right now but this shit is interesting!

Well if you figure it out, hook me up please.

And thanks to Edgeprod and Autumn... but I'm not a coder so the stuff you said is great and I understand it... but the only code I write is syntax errors, and I can do a wicked blank white screen.

I have setup this on a few WP sites using the premium plugins with a few tweaks from that site... It's easy to do.

But wait, you are Mr. FEAR.. if you were any other guy, I would have no problem helping you in "I Seek You" in Google Streets..

And yes, your house is 200K-250K... and in side of your JEEP, there was a white sedan and a FORD Pick-UP double cabin.

Do you want to bet?..

No worries, I am sure we can lend you some cycles. Hit my Skype tomorrow afternoon.

Beast! hook me up!

Haha, I'm sure there won't be an issue sharing the code.

You can get it done on freelancer or dp for like $10,i would set up a fiverr request you will surely get responses

tube8 use this on their mobile page

not hard to do ;)

Most things aren't hard to do, once you know how to do it.