About: Angie Gonzalez

You can add a way for a customer to buy a coupon as a “gift”. I’ve done this on my site, but for simplicity, I’ll only describe the way I did it.

I did it this way:

1) I added additional fields to the database:
GFT: marks the code as available to be send out as gift.
GFT_REC: marks the name of the recipient.
GFT_REC_MAIL: enters the address of receiving customer

2) I uploaded several coupon codes to the database and marked the GIFT column with a “1”. These are the coupon codes available to be sent as a gift.

3) I make customer buy a gift “subscription”, it is a Custom Capabilities (e.g. gift_cap) that gives them access to a gift giving page.

4) Once they log in, I use conditionals to show them a button that says “send gift coupon”, and they go to a Form.

5) The Form validates that the customer has the capability to send out gifts, grabs a gift code from the database, and sends an email to receiver and sender.

Hope this helps.

Thanks Raam. I feel comfortable putting some code in and deep diving into this, but want to make sure your suggestion still applies:

1) By Pro-Forms, are you referring to Paypal Pro-Forms or “S2member Pro” forms?

I want to make sure that I get this right before I invest a couple of hours on it. I’m just interested on the last page the free sign ups come from (I don’t care about the users who pay).

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Angie

• This reply was modified 4 years, 7 months ago by  Angie Gonzalez.

Below is an example of the conditionals that are not working (in shortcode form). Both images are appearing in my localhost installation when I am on the page that contains them, and the [shortcode] text is showings {seems like the code is not running at all}. This happens if I’m logged out or logged in. Fair to say that on my live site they work fine.

[s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)]
<a href="http://localhost/bbs/cursos/lenguaje-de-senas-para-bebe/modulo-1-introduccion/"><img class="size-full wp-image-1390 alignnone" title="Módulo Introducción" src="http://localhost/bbs/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/member-Modulo-Intro.jpg" alt="Módulo Introducción" width="204" height="115" /></a>
[/s2If]

[s2If !current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)]
<a href="http://localhost/bbs/cursos/lenguaje-de-senas-para-bebe/modulo-1-introduccion/"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-810" title="Módulo 1 Introducción" src="http://localhost/bbs/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Modulo-Intro.jpg" alt="Módulo 1 Introducción" width="204" height="115" /></a>
[/s2If]

• This reply was modified 4 years, 10 months ago by  Angie Gonzalez.
• This reply was modified 4 years, 10 months ago by  Angie Gonzalez.

Yes, I have seen those instructions, read it several times and they are not clear:

“in cases where your localhost installation runs on something other than 127.0.0.1/localhost, you need to tell s2Member definitively, by adding that line to your /wp-config.php file”

ok, so we know my instalation runs on localhost/bbs/

What line needs to be added? Where and how?

I’ve been guessing and trying different lines for than 3 hours. Any ideas?