Bruce

Thanks for the follow-up.

Glad to hear you got it fixed.

Hi Jordan,

Unfortunately, PayPal requires you to send the data to its servers and have the user confirm the changes on their side without PayPal Pro. s2Member has tried to keep all of the data input on your side to keep it as simple as possible on PayPal, but to keep the user on your site completely, you will need to get PayPal Pro.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Hi David, thanks for your inquiry!

It looks like it could be a problem with the JavaScript on your site.

Are you running any caching plugins?
– It’s possible that you could be having problems with the way the caching program is handling the JavaScript for the form. Could you try disabling the plugin if you have one, and seeing if it works then?
– If it is the caching plugin, you can try QuickCache instead. It’s made my WebSharks, Inc. and works perfectly with s2Member.

Do you have any custom JavaScript running through the forms?
– If you do, try disabling it.

If no to both of those, can you try reverting to Twenty-Eleven and seeing if it works with that installed?
– This is the most likely cause of the problem.

Thanks, and let me know if you get the problem fixed.

Hi Frank,

Yes, you can check out how to do that here:

http://www.tizag.com/javascriptT/javascriptredirect.php

I hope that helps!

Hi Frank, thanks for the follow-up

Do you have a PHP Execution plugin installed?

Hi Frank,

The problem with that code lies within the fact that you put a PHP function ( bp_loggedin_user_domain() ) within parenthesis. So the correct code would look like this:

<?php header ('Location:'.bp_loggedin_user_domain()); ?>

However, because the page content is loaded into the page after the attribute, this code will throw an error. I recommend using a JavaScript redirect instead. You can pop this into the top of the post/page:

<script type="text/javascript"> window.location = "<?php echo bp_loggedin_user_domain();?>"; </script>

I hope that solves your problem.

Hi Jordan, thank-you for your inquiry!

You need to set up a Pro Form for Upgrades from Free Users to s2Member Level 1.

You can find these forms under Dashboard -> s2Member -> PayPal® Pro-Forms -> PayPal® Pro Billing Modification Forms.

It may also be wise to set up your Membership Options Page to detect whether or not the user is logged in, and whether or not they are a premium subscriber.

You can learn about how to do this in your dashboard under Dashboard -> s2Member -> API/Scripting -> Simple/Shortcode Conditionals

Using shortcodes, you can detect whether the user viewing the page is already signed in, and if they are s2Member Level 1 already. You could do something like this:

[s2If !is_user_logged_in()]
    The regular PayPal® Pro Form you are currently using
[/s2If]

[s2If current_user_is(s2member_level0)]
    The upgrade Pro Form
[/s2If]

[s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)]
    You're already a premium user. You don't need to upgrade.
[/s2If]

I hope that helps!

Hi Ivan, thank-you for your inquiry!

Unfortunately, s2Member cannot reach as far as WordPress® can, so it’s not possible to access the PHP constants or functions from outside of WordPress. It could be possible to do this from within a forums plugin hooked into WordPress.

I hope that helps in some way.

-Bruce

Hi Alexander,

After reading back through your previous post I realized that you are actually using the standard PayPal setup, correct?

In this case, s2Member can actually automatically set the IPN on a per-transaction basis, so you will need to leave out a PayPal® IPN and PDT in your settings, and allow s2Member to automatically set it through the buttons it creates.

If you do decide to switch to PayPal® Pro, a central IPN processor will need to be created, as PayPal® Pro does not allow transactions without an IPN set up. s2Member® has an example file in the s2m-pro-extras.zip file you should get with your s2Member Pro files. This can be customized with someone familiar with s2Member to work correctly with your sites.

You can find out more info about this by reading the More Information section under s2Member -> PayPal® Options -> PayPal® IPN Integration

Hope that helps,

-Bruce

Hi John,

You can create multiple buttons / Pro Forms for the same level, you will just need to have either multiple pages for different buttons / pro forms or have 1 page with multiple forms (it doesn’t matter which).

The simplest way to do it is just to create forms on multiple pages, and have your Membership Options Page link to the different form pages.

If you’d rather have 1 page for a dynamic form, you can use PHP variables and place different values within the shortcodes based on a $_GET or $_POST variable, or just from a dropdown at the top of the page. A freelance developer can do this in a day or so with a basic knowledge of PHP / HTML.

I hope that helps,

Bruce

Hi,

1. Is is possible to create a login form within a page and have it refresh the same page after the user has logged in so they can see the content?

It’s possible to do this with just a little bit of code put into your Membership Options Page. s2Member already passes data into the Membership Options Page whenever a user is redirected that includes if it is a page or post, and the ID/slug of that page or post. It’s very simple to create a code snippet on this page that detects if the user was redirected, and can display a login form, which will redirect the user to the page they originated from.

We would be happy to help you from within the Customer Support Forums on this issue.

2. If a free user has previously registered and then wishes to upgrade to a paid subscription membership and additional Custom Registration/Profile Fields are required for that subscription level, is it possible for the user to then be prompted to fill out the additional custom fields before activating their membership?

With s2Member Pro, all of the data for membership is passed through the Payment Gateway, so after checkout, all the user needs to do is login. You will need to set up Pro Forms (available in the Pro version) which also allow for custom registration forms to be shown.

Hope that helps,

Bruce

Hi B,

Once you add in PayPal or another payment gateway, your other users will be unaffected. Users created beforehand will be able to renew with PayPal if they chose to, and new members could check out with PayPal® as well.

s2Member also has Registration Access Links to help you through the process. You can have users send you money with PayPal in the meantime, and send them a link made specifically for the transaction ID they signed up on. This would take care of EOT dates from PayPal and refunds / charge backs you may get.

Hope that helps.

Hi B,

To add a payment gateway other than those that come with s2Member or s2Member Pro, you will need an advanced knowledge of s2Member. It would take reading through the source to find the specific function calls you need to make. s2Member Pro’s system already passes the values from the payment gateways into the PayPal system.

s2Member Pro does support multiple payment gateways by default. You can see an explanation about the payment gateways here:

http://www.s2member.com/faqs/#s2-faqs-payment-gateways

Hope that helps.