Notification Emails

Hello,

First, great plugin – love it!

I’ve looked high and low for answers and tried to test the notification system to no avail. There are so many things to setup and that could go wrong in PayPal, or on my site, so thank you for your patience:

1) Does s2member Pro email the website owner (Dashbaord -> Settings -> General -> E-mail Address) when a payment is made? When a recurring payment is cancelled?
2) I tried to follow your directions here: http://www.s2member.com/kb/building-an-api-notification-handler/
but I’m getting an error:

[25-Apr-2013 10:58:36] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function add_action() in /*****/*****/public_html/wp-content/mu-plugins/s2-payment-notification.php on line 49

Line 49:
add_action(‘init’, ‘s2_payment_notification’);

And yes I have an s2_payment_notification() function declared.
I am in sandbox mode with PayPal. The s2member functionality seems to be working otherwise (registration emails are sent, roles and caps are being set). It’s just this email thing I need worked out :-)

I’m an fairly experienced programmer but this is stumping me. Maybe I need more coffee…

Thank you,
-Brian

P.S. I’ve also installed other must use plugins before that are calling the add_action and add_filter calls so this one is really bazaar…

Thank you for reporting this important issue.

Are you getting this issue when you try to get to the file directly, or when WordPress loads?

The error is logged when I test out a recurring payments (PayPal) registration form. So through WordPress, I believe.

So through WordPress, I believe.

What URL are you using in your API Notifications area? Is it pointing directly to the Must-Use Plugin file?

I have these (note the site is in development so the first 2 are without a proper domain):

http://*****.bluehost.com/~****/?s2_payment_notification=yes&%%user_login%%&%%user_email%%&%%user_first_name%%&%%user_last_name%%&%%item_number%%&%%item_name%%

http://*****.bluehost.com/~****/wp-content/mu-plugins/s2-payment-notification.php?s2_payment_notification=yes&%%user_login%%&%%user_email%%&%%user_first_name%%&%%user_last_name%%&%%item_number%%&%%item_name%%

http://kismetwebdesign.com/ann-emailer/ann-emailer.php&%%user_login%%&%%user_email%%&%%user_first_name%%&%%user_last_name%%&%%item_number%%&%%item_name%%

The last one points to my personal business site, but it is not performing as expected (should shoot a simple email to me).

My suspicion is that my PayPal sandbox settings are wrong….? :-)

-B

My suspicion is that my PayPal sandbox settings are wrong….? :-)

No, I don’t believe so. I think the problem here is that you’re using a direct link to the plugin file in these two URLs:

http://*****.bluehost.com/~****/wp-content/mu-plugins/s2-payment-notification.php?s2_payment_notification=yes&%%user_login%%&%%user_email%%&%%user_first_name%%&%%user_last_name%%&%%item_number%%&%%item_name%%
http://kismetwebdesign.com/ann-emailer/ann-emailer.php&%%user_login%%&%%user_email%%&%%user_first_name%%&%%user_last_name%%&%%item_number%%&%%item_name%%

You need to create a URL like shown in the example in our Knowledge Base, like you’re using here:

http://*****.bluehost.com/~****/?s2_payment_notification=yes&%%user_login%%&%%user_email%%&%%user_first_name%%&%%user_last_name%%&%%item_number%%&%%item_name%%

This one should be working correctly (or at least not throwing this error), but the others are not loading WordPress, so the add_action() function is both not being loaded and not needed.