Syntax of custom options on PHP Login Box.

I’m trying to use the PHP login box and I want to customize it to redirect people back to the same page they were already on, but I’m stuck on how to do the syntax correctly.

I’m looking here at the custom options:
http://www.s2member.com/codex/stable/s2member/api_functions/package-functions/#src_doc_s2member_pro_login_widget()

Here’s how the code looks at first without any customization:

And here’s my first attempt to add the custom options. I copied two items from the custom options into the parenthesis, and I’m sure the syntax is wrong, but I don’t know how to make it right. Can you help?

"%%automatic%%" "login_redirect" => "%%previous%%"); ?>"

Hello there,

I haven’t used the login widget in this way before, but f the method you tried does not work, then it’s probably used this way:

<?php
$options = array(
	"signup_url",
	"login_redirect",
);

$args = array(
	"%%automatic%%",
	"%%previous%%",
);

echo s2member_pro_login_widget($options, $args);
?>

Try and see if that works better. :)

If it doesn’t then I’ll have to ask Jason for clarification on how to do this properly.

– Eduan

That method didn’t work.

It represented small progress in this way: Your syntax is valid, and it didn’t cause errors on the page (as all my previous attempts had done.)

However, it was not successful at redirecting the user back to the post they were already on, which is what the login _redirect / %%previous%% is supposed to do. (Instead it directed them to a member dashboard page we previously created.)

Can you go ahead and ask Jason?

Thanks,
Julie

Julie, could you see if this video helps you with that? Video » s2Member (Login Welcome Page Conflicts?)

Sorry, no that video did not help.

When I use the sidebar login box, there’s a bunch of configuration options, and one of them is where to send the person upon login, and I can select “Previous”. I select this option and everything works perfectly.

However, I’d rather have the login box in the middle of my page instead of in the sidebar, so for that I want to use the PHP widget. It has all the same configuration options, but you have to know a little more about coding to use them, and I don’t have enough knowledge about the proper syntax to use it properly.

This is the core of it.

<?php echo s2member_pro_login_widget(); ?>

This is the parameter I want to add:
“login_redirect” => “%%previous%%”

What’s the proper way to express that in the PHP code? I just don’t know whether to use the quotation marks, or where to put commas, or wether that “=>” belongs anywhere at all.

Thanks,
Julie

Thanks for your reply. :-)

Your original post’s attempt was the closest here:

<?php echo s2member_pro_login_widget("signup_url" => "%%automatic%%" "login_redirect" => "%%previous%%"); ?>

Try this:

<?php echo s2member_pro_login_widget(array("signup_url" => "%%automatic%%", "login_redirect" => "%%previous%%")); ?>

That should create a Pro Login Widget that will redirect to the previous page that the User was on.