Fixed EOT during registration?

Hi,

I’m wondering how I can give members a fixed EOT? No matter when the member registers, their EOT should always be set to 31/12/current year.

Any suggestions what might be suitable?
Thank you in advance.

Hi Emily.

These may help:

http://www.primothemes.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=15619&p=48791#p48791
http://www.primothemes.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=6437&p=15261#p15139

http://www.primothemes.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=10100&p=58978#p21726

Hi again,

Thanks for the advice. This works great. When a new member registers, EOT is set to ‘current-year/12/31’.

Question for next step:
During the period of november 1st – 30th every year existing and logged in members can renew their membership. (I’m thinking they would access a renew-page in member menu.)

Then EOT should be set to ‘current-year+1/12/31’, but what would be the best method to do that? Another form? Paypal button (using paypal express checkout)? Are there hooks for renewals?

(After ‘current-year/12/31’ has passed, non paid members gets demoted, and can only see an upgrade page if they try to log in.)

Glad that helped. :)

During the period of november 1st – 30th every year existing and logged in members can renew their membership. (I’m thinking they would access a renew-page in member menu.)

Then EOT should be set to ‘current-year+1/12/31′, but what would be the best method to do that?

If they can only renew during that time, then you can show/hide the pro-form with a conditional that checks if the current month is November using the date function.
[hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Advanced PHP Conditionals[/hilite]
http://php.net/date

Do you mean the same form that new members use to register or a completely new form? Since this time, the EOT should be set to ‘current-year+1/12/31′ instead of ‘current-year/12/31′.

I don’t know if you need it to be a different pro-form… I thought the renewal would only be possible in November, then a pro-form wouldn’t be available the rest of the time. But if payments were possible the other months, you can have a different pro-form show up in the same page using the conditional: if it’s November show this pro-form, if not show this other one.

Hello again,

Here are some more info:
The regular pro-forum will be available all year around for new members. Sets EOT to ‘current-year/12/31’.

The renewal pro-form will be available say during november-december only and only for current members.
Must set EOT to ‘current-year+1/12/31’.

So the forms will, at some point, be avaliable at the same time. Are there different hooks to use in the s2hacks-file for the renewal form, for setting the right form of EOT? Would it be a good idea to check if user is loged in and if month nov-dec then show the renewal form?

Then it’s the third option, when a member don’t/ forgets to renew and gets demoted – then we need the upgrade pro-form/button or something similar? Does upgrades work differently?

Thanks in advance
Emily

The regular pro-forum will be available all year around for new members. Sets EOT to ‘current-year/12/31′.

That’s fine.

The renewal pro-form will be available say during november-december only and only for current members.
Must set EOT to ‘current-year+1/12/31′.

Okay. This one would need a conditional around it to determine if time to show it or not.

So the forms will, at some point, be avaliable at the same time. Are there different hooks to use in the s2hacks-file for the renewal form, for setting the right form of EOT? Would it be a good idea to check if user is loged in and if month nov-dec then show the renewal form?

No need to use a hacks file. You can have a page accessible to Level 1 users (assuming that’s the paid access you sold), so only them would see this page. And in it you’d have a condition that checks the month and shows the renewal pro-form during November and December only.

Then it’s the third option, when a member don’t/ forgets to renew and gets demoted – then we need the upgrade pro-form/button or something similar? Does upgrades work differently?

Upgrade works just like the original sale, but when the user is logged in. So you’d have this pro-form in a page protected at Level 0 and you can have the pro-form inside a condition that checks if the user is at Level 0 and not higher. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Simple/Shortcode Conditionals -> Example 3[/hilite]

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Hi and thank you for answering :)

No need to use a hacks file. You can have a page accessible to Level 1 users (assuming that’s the paid access you sold), so only them would see this page. And in it you’d have a condition that checks the month and shows the renewal pro-form during November and December only.

But the EOT-code for renewal/upgrade must be in the s2hacks file, no?

Sorry if the questions are confusing.

No, that can be in the same page too.