Simple drip feed content script problem

Hi,

I’ve been playing around with drip feed content and I just need to sort out one basic thing that I couldn’t reading through s2member instructions.

Example: in the scripting section I can find this:

(i.e.

) will give you a timestamp at which a Member first paid for Level#1 access.

Okie dokie. But I’ve inserted that code in my post and it doesn’t show anything. So I’ve tried inserting a print command to see what happens:

Now it does show the time, but it shows an awkward number like 1360136253. Dunno what that is. Ok, found out that is a unix timestamp. So that’s my first question:

How do I make it show the exact number of days the guy has been registered?

So basically what I wanted was a simple function where I could write how many days he still have till he can see the content. So, say he joined yesterday and the content would be available in 7 days from registration:

This content will be available to you in FUNCTION(7 – REGISTRATION TIME) days.

The function would then translate to 5 in this case.

Not sure how hard it is to do that. I fully understand that this is not part of the plugin itself, so I understand that if this is too hard I should hire someone to do it. But, anyway, I decided to post here in case it wasn’t that hard and someone could sort it out quick and painlessly ;)

BTW, I’ve installed the ezPHP plugin but the PHP code is still showing as a text when I view my post. Dunno what I’m doing wrong. I’ve found a way around with some shortcodes from my theme (Catalyst) but still would be nice to have PHP directly into the posts.

Any idea on how to sort this out? I just added the plugin and activated. Anything else I need to do?

Thanks!

Hi Bruno.

So basically what I wanted was a simple function where I could write how many days he still have till he can see the content. So, say he joined yesterday and the content would be available in 7 days from registration:

Maybe something like:

[hilite pre_code]
strtotime('-7 days')) { ?>
First week.

[/hilite]

http://php.net/strtotime

BTW, I’ve installed the ezPHP plugin but the PHP code is still showing as a text when I view my post. Dunno what I’m doing wrong.

Make sure you’re only using the Text tab of the editor and never user the Visual tab when you have PHP code.

Thanks Cristian!

Hummm that will be impossible. WAY too troublesome to only use the text tab to edit my stuff.

Any other way around?

Hmm… Creating a shortcode for your conditional maybe? http://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API

Here are a couple of tutorials:
http://wp.tutsplus.com/tutorials/theme-development/wordpress-shortcodes-the-right-way/
http://wp.smashingmagazine.com/2012/05/01/wordpress-shortcodes-complete-guide/

Or maybe use a plugin to create shortcodes:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/my-shortcodes/
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/shortcode-developer/

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/my-shortcodes/ is the way to go! Very cool plugin and it works like a charm!

Thanks for the update. I’m glad you solved it. :)

Well I thought I had solved but it seems I’m doing something wrong =/

I registered a new user today and used the follow command with a shortcode:

<?php if(s2member_paid_registration_time("level2") >= 50){ ?>

Content test!

<?php } ?>

Any user who has paid for level 2 access for less than 50 days SHOULDN’T be able to see that content. But for some reason that’s now what is happening. Access is still available to everyone.

Is there anyhing wrong with my code?

[hilite mono]s2member_paid_registration_time[/hilite] will return a timestamp, not number of days. In the conditional I wrote for you some replies ago, you’ll see I used [hilite mono]strtotime[/hilite].

If you want days, then try [hilite mono]S2MEMBER_CURRENT_USER_PAID_REGISTRATION_DAYS[/hilite]. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Content Dripping[/hilite]

EDIT: forget it, got it now ;)

Thanks!

Great. :)