Membership options and login redirect

This is for Bruce — who wrote a nice piece on creating a custom membership options page — one that redirects people to the page they are acyually interested , rather than always the memb opt page (!).

I found someone else asking the same thing inthis post here .. and i am trying to do the same thing. Oh, and btw – not to be a complainer but — it honestly seems a bit too hard for us non-coders to grok all of the mo variables and such when really: all we want to do is create EXPECTED BEHAVIOR ie, a member seeking a page (perhaps bookmarked or passed via email) should get a login page and then, on submit be redirected to that content IF they are allowed.

ok… so this has to be really simple. I’m trying to work with your sample php code – it’s on my MO page now and well, you present it and then say “And that’s it! You now have a cool new feature on your Membership Options Page, that you can customize easily. :) Use with [membership_options_vars]” — and i want to ask: 1) i thought the [membership_options_vars] was actually a shortcode — and that we are working with php here (so confused) and i don’t get where in this script i will put in the info that i want to redirect the user to the url he was seeking.

So after all that, I really just want to know what is “membership_options_vars” — and how do i define that to be the sought-after url? My intent is to make the MO page essentially a login page with perhaps some membership info after the login form. Thanks!

Thank you for your inquiry.

I’m going to be updating this article later tonight, but I figure I can point you in the right direction now.

What you want to do to have Users redirect back to their previous page on login is use the Membership Options Variables as they’re documented here, and pass in a redirect_to variable into your login form.

Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Membership Options Page Variables (MOP Vars)

For the quickest implementation, you can use the _s2member_seeking[_uri] variable. Just base64_decode this and send it into the redirect_to hidden input section.

… ok, so what i’m getting is that this is an advanced php scripting issue (via the pro login snippet)– not something that is going to be possible to do w/o a pro. Unless, of course the sidebar widget is used.

It would be so great if there were a MU plugin, or ? with this simplified but really useful option 1) on login: direct user to page OR post OR anything as long as they have rights otherwise take them to the membership options page.

This is just out of reach for us non-coders. Basic questions immediately come up for us like – where does the php code get inserted; and: does one need to include the lines for category or tag restricted content even if all content is restricted by other means (ccaps for example) …?

Questions that i guess, are basic — but will prevent someone like myself from having a nice entrance experience for my users. The login widget seems to handle most of this but sidebar login widgets really mess with many page designs.

… ok, so what i’m getting is that this is an advanced php scripting issue (via the pro login snippet)– not something that is going to be possible to do w/o a pro. Unless, of course the sidebar widget is used.

Yes, unfortunately this is correct.

The problem with this is that this is an advanced feature, this is already as simple as we can get it. If there were a way to make this simpler we would definitely do that, but as-is there’s no way to do so. The information provided around MOP Variables goes over all the information you’ll need for this.

where does the php code get inserted;

In the Membership Options Page

does one need to include the lines for category or tag restricted content even if all content is restricted by other means (ccaps for example) …?

If you’re using the variable that I talked about in my previous reply (_s2member_seeking[_uri]) no. The other variables are only useful if you’re dynamically setting content based on what the User was redirected from.