Using custom profile field

I am using a site to deliver free content to students, targeted according to their year group, self selected in the registration process by a custom field. I want to use this to direct them to the correct “welcome page” and catagorise the content they see. I thought this would be straight forward when I read s2Member outline but it seems not. I am quickly get coding over my head and time I don’t have. Is there an easy solution?
many thanks

Hello Seamus,

Have you looked into advanced PHP conditionals? You can find them under Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Advanced PHP Conditionals.

Here’s an introduction to simple conditionals:
Knowledge Base » Simple Shortcode Conditionals

– Eduan

Yes but my understanding is that there is no way of using custom field registration to automatically put users into groups and direct them to the appropriate login page. I don’t want them to have to go to a sign up page.
What I wanted was that the students select a year group from a dropdown and this was enough to direct them to the right pages.
Many thanks for getting back to me.

Ah I see.

I’ll check with Jason to see if it’s possible to reference the user’s field selection upon registration. I’m sure it’s possible I just don’t know how. :)

Using these values you should be able to use them as conditionals and use a JavaScript redirect according to the value.

– Eduan

Thanks for taking the time. I’ve actually signed up for the pro now- should I move this over to the other Forum?
I signed because I read that the free pro forms supported adding capabilities and I could then look for these. Unfortunately this is not something that my students can select from- just to recap I want them to register by selecting their correct study class (I’ ve called this year_group) and that this selction actually determines what page opens as a login welcome.
I’m no coder but with so much functionality built into s2Member it seems like this could also be there.
many thanks

Here’s the link Jason pointed me to with his answer:
http://www.s2member.com/codex/stable/s2member/api_functions/package-functions/#src_doc_get_user_field()

Seems it’ll work perfectly for your needs. :)

You can have your users select what custom capability they want, in case you’re interested. You would just igve the shortcode values through PHP: Knowledge Base » Using Variables In A Shortcode

– Eduan

I am sorry Eduan, I have no idea how to get these to work. I would like students registering to select their class and this selction automatically redirecting them to the correct welcoming page and onward to their area. I have put in a custom profile field and if I could feed this into the custom welcome page URL it would be over and done with in seconds. It does not seem possible to do this.
many thanks