custom login redirection

I am setting up a free site for my students and I would like students registering to select their class and this selection automatically redirecting them to the correct welcoming page and onward to their area. I have put in a custom profile field which they select their class from and if I could feed this into the custom welcome page URL it would be over and done with in seconds. It does not seem possible to do this. Is there a way?

You could have just one Login Welcome page with a conditional that checks that custom profile field and shows a different message based on its value.

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http://www.s2member.com/codex/stable/s2member/api_functions/package-functions/#src_doc_get_user_field%28%29

Is there a knowledge base link that shows me how to use these. Do I need to get the field then use the conditional. There is no example of using a custom field with a conditional.
many thanks

You’d get the value for the custom field and then check the value in a condition…

If you custom field’s ID is “class”, it’d be something like this, I guess:

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Content for Class 1

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It may be different depending on the type of custom field you created.

Anyway, that example should give you an idea of how it is. You may need to do some tests, but it won’t be too hard.

It doesn’t seem to be retrieving the custon field “year”. This is a field I added to the registration field, but I have since upgraded to pro. Would this make a difference?
many thanks

No, Pro doesn’t change this at all.

Did you make sure the field has a value? And did you test if you could retrieve it successfully?

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$year = get_user_field('year');
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You may need to play around with it and test a bit until you get it right.

I can’t get it to retrieve the “year” information.
many thanks

I can take a look if you submit your site’s info. Let me know when you do. s2Member® » Private Contact Form

Thank you, what do you need? logins?

Thanks, got the email.

I see, your “year” field is multioption with checkboxes. That’d give you an array, not a string. Would someone select more than one year? If not, you may prefer to use a dropdown.

Anyway, you can see the format of your array doing:

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$year = get_user_field('year');
print_r($year);
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outputs

Array
(
	[0] => year11
)

So your condition would go like something this:

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Content for year 11.

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http://php.net/in_array

You may need to add some extra checks in the condition, for those that didn’t select a year.

I hope that helps.

I did have a dropdown but I read somewhere that pro didn’t support dropdowns. At that time I was trying to add capabilities via the free registration pro form.
I will try this.
Thanks again