Jason eH

while ccaps are great and all – they are in the serialized array?

anyway i have other plugins that I want to write registered users’ independant access level and they see the s2member levels not ccaps….

i think that s2member levels independant would be great.

im interested too…

Your welcome all:
I am in the quest for a database that registers users and i can read and write to it from other plugins that are well written.

A lot of people frown on separate databases…but if the info is segmented and accessbile and easily called to prefill other forms and be written from other forms cause the field names etc are easy to sync with, and you can pull info from that database together with others to create reports – i.e. userinfo in wp meta, ccap of editor in s2 table, favorite colour this month in formidable form, it would be great to be able to pull a report for that user who who is an editor with a favortie colour of blue, and if you can use a form generator to write to all three that is amazing.

like i said formidable is already doing a lot of this and works as much as any form generator can with shortcodes even.

I hope you s2member guys give formidable forms a serious look over and even contact the developer on her support forum – she is amazingly fast a response and through with her support.

Keep on truckin’

Mary –
sorry if i am not clear – 3 hours sleep repetitively and i am not a coffe drinker – i am just trying to get as much as i can across in hope you 1 get to appreciate how great s2member is and will become, and 2 don’t overlook a few things (expectation management) so you have a good developement deployment plan with your custom work (save $$$ and time)

you have it right in your case – it is a solution that i was going to apply as a workaround – just hide the page using s2member…and you are right all plugins should communicate directly with wordpress data – s2member does this really well for standard fields.

what i understand (correct me if i am wrong) – s2member integrates with wordpress to allow the user to login register etc through s2member interfaces for the wordpress login window…. and s2member gives you the ability to determine content all users have access to.

once logged in (with wordpress) your forum (if it integrates iwth wordpress users, should recognize you are logged in..so you dont need dual logins…..it was my understanding that s2member integrates well with bbpres and buddypress – it even has settings you can specify to synchronize tightly with buddypress (although a lot of other things can have issues with buddypress if not designed with buddypress in mind i.e.themes and other plugins – have noticed a lot of good developers lagging on buddypress integration and support for some reason, and hosting companies saying buddypress presents issues often – why some recommmend simple press – no experience with SP)

Crisitian: wrt

1) Will S2Member manage the forum’s login or will users have to login twice (once for the website, and then once again for the forum).
s2Member doesn’t manage login or sessions, that’s done by WordPress. To have a single login, you’ll have to integrate the forum with your WordPress installation.

To clarify again cristian correct me if i am wrong- s2member doesn’t manage it wordpress does, but s2member allows users to register and login to wordpress using / integrating with the wordpress login, and it even allows you to theme wp-admin login with you logo and thee is a login widget i believe…..

My developer wants to know if he can make the plugin communicate with S2Member in order to get the user login info, so the plugin can load the data corresponding to that particular user.

Data flow would look like this:

1) User logs in.
2) S2Member gives user access to the custom page.
3) Custom plugin gets login info.
4) Custom plugin calls and loads custom page showing the data corresponding to that user.

i have had success using other plugins like form builders etc (i.e. formidable forms – great support – developer is a wealth of knowledge in this area and could probably tell your developer about her experiences with some of this)) that allow the use of shortcodes in their fields – s2member has shortcodes for the basic user data – so my fields in the other plugin are easily prefilled…so yes withthe right plugin but that is where it stops to a degree –

because of the current way s2member writes the data and especially custom fields, it is very difficult to call info from non standard user fields in s2member and it is hard to write back…

i wanted tighter integration with the fields i was asking the user to fill out – not only use s2member to log someon in and keep their credentials and protect content – but also allow those credentials to be ported to another plugin (which is again possible for standard user fields easily) but that could also write back to s2members custom fields –
so for me custom fields were impotrant and data portability was important….

also say for example my event manager plugin or my forms plugin allows a user to increase their membership level or custom capability (in my case) Iwould need the form or event manager plugin to do that automatically – but it appears like i have to do it manually for now – because i need those custom fields in my form and events plugins, i have to have the user enter it there….so future forms and events can use that info

i.e. client sign on and fills out form…purchases event (which increases credential i.e. training) or using form purchases levl access of custom capability (cannot use s2member if i need that info available for future forms unless again i review all forms and manually up the users custom capaility afterward)
Again it is easier for me to be able to reuse custom data in the form plugin and have to manually update s2member than to try to reuse custom fields from the s2member plugin and mnually update many forms and databases resulting from tose forms who use conditional logic based on those custom capabilities –
i thought of creating a page that has shortcodes for for s2member, formidable forms, an avatar plugin, and maybe using the forms plugin ‘s conditional logic to present the s2 member forms shortcode and or the purchase option for an event…..

4000 active members on one site, to much manual policing for me, i want to set it and forget it,

things are really close right now….i am excited that this might all become easily possible soon with the direction some of the mentioned developers are taking including s2member

so i dont think you can go wrong with s2member with what you are trying to do – just let your developer know for the time being there are a few limitation to s2members “serialized array” set-up but i understand that is changing and i wouldn’t put a lot of expensive developement time into configuring for something that is immently chagning…

I like the widget for login in pro forms – if logging in you don’t get the wp-admin window, your logged in and skip that window – nice.

you can specify the register page as a url in the widget, as well as the login welcome page, logout redirection page – i like that it avoids the wp-admin login screen

except for following three incidences:
if password is wring – then wp-admin page

and forgot my password – wp-admin page

aside if admin – then wordpress back end….

for admin i understand why it does that i think, can you change that?

the other two – wrong or forgotten credentials – is there a way to keep that in the login in widget or create a page like the profile edit page ?

Aside – if it helps anyone – actually i did have an issue with menus, but it was because although i built a menu in the wp->appearance->menus, i didnt specify it in the upper left area where the theme main navigation can be selected from any one of the menus you build

Solution for me was to just create actual links in the upper right of my website:

<a href="http://xyz.com/register/">Register</a>  <a href="http://xyz.com/wp-login.php">Login</a>

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