Silent modifications to member profiles

Perhaps this is in the documentation somewhere, but I got a bit lost between the API section in the plugin and the codex.

We’d like to update some custom member profile fields with metadata when members view certain content on our site – e.g. to record the date they first visit a specific page, for example. Is that possible, and is there a ‘best’ way to approach coding what’s needed? Something like an ‘s2Set’ counterpart to the ‘s2Get’ shortcode, if such a thing exists? Or via javascript on the page?

Many thanks,

Andy.

Hello Andy,

I’m afraid this is not part of s2Member’s functionality currently, you can however introduce some PHP in your post which does this, the WordPress way, which is not as simple as it would be with s2Member shortcodes.

You need a plugin like the PHP Execution plugin in order to introduce PHP in your posts.

– Eduan

Thanks – I guess that would be doable. I also found this code from Raam – is that the kind of thing we’d need?

// Get an array of all the users' s2Member Custom Fields
$custom_fields = get_user_option("s2member_custom_fields");
// Set the value for a specific field ($custom_fields is an array)
$custom_fields["custom_field_name"] = $NewValue;
// Update the Custom Field data
update_user_option($user->ID, "s2member_custom_fields", $custom_fields);

Yes, that approach can be used to edit the s2Member profile fields of a user.