Bruce

What I basically have is a simple page with a form, that only collects name and email. How can I place S2Member code there so that the person entering their name and address is added to S2Member as a Level 0 Member?

You can replace your current form with an s2Member Pro Free Registration Form, available here:

Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Free Registration Forms

Also make sure that you have MailChimp set up here:

Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / List Servers -› MailChimp®

Then, you can have Users sign up, and be put on your MailChimp list automatically.

Users exist but s2member plugin just looks like a fresh install.

Does s2Member not have these fields set up here at all?:

Dashboard -› s2Member® -› General Options -› Registration/Profile Fields

Or are you saying that s2Member is still set up correctly, but the Registration Forms are not registering on Users? It sounds like it’s the first.

If that’s the case it’s likely because of Deactivation Safeguards being OFF when you moved your site:

Dashboard -› s2Member® -› General Options -› Deactivation Safeguards

You’ll have to either export s2Member’s settings from your old install here, or set s2Member back up with your old Custom Registration/Profile Fields:

Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Import/Export -› s2Member® Options

I’m quite confused as there is no account affiliated with that person’s e-mail address previously. I was signed into the website at the same time that they signed up. Could this have triggered the response?

Yes, this is what triggered this error. You have to sign out of your account before checking out. s2Member picked up on your User ID when you checked out, and is attempting to modify it automatically, as you were already logged in.

As I understand I can add a custom capability to a Buy Now button, and then use that specific capability to restrict access within a page. To do this I need to append the code “access_s2member_ccap_music” to control access to certain portions of a page.

This is correct so far.

Now, suppose I add custom capability to a whole page by adding a qualifier – say, music – in the space provided on the right in the Add New Page.

In this case, will I be able to control access to the whole page? For example, I can use the following code on the Login Welcome Page. Is that possible?

You can always use Shortcode Conditionals in Posts/Pages. If you’re protecting your Post/Page with a Custom Capability, s2Member will require that anyone attempting to reach this Post/Page have that Custom Capability. You are restricting access to their entire Post/Page, and the User will be redirected to the Membership Options Page if they do not have access.

If you don’t want to redirect Users to the Membership Options Page, use Conditionals to protect certain parts of your content on the page.

I believe it’s fixed. The problem had to do with bad SCRIPT_FILENAME, which was a side-effect of the PHP-FPM config, where you have to tweak the paths with symbolic links in order to only pass PHP through the PHP handler and nothing else (e.g. static files).

Yes that sounds like the issue. s2Member is checking this value and running it against the realpath() of itself, so this would cause errors.

http://php.net/manual/en/function.realpath.php

Glad to hear you fixed your error. :-)

Thank you for your inquiry.

1) Does s2Member require any coding? I have zero html experience, and no time to learn it.

As cassel mentioned, s2Member does not require any coding experience to set up its core features. That being said, s2Member is designed to be very flexible, and gives room for developers to come in and do specific things with code. If you’re just looking to set up regular membership, you shouldn’t run into any problems. However to do advanced things with s2Member small amounts of PHP may be necessary.

2) I cannot locate a chart of free vs pro features and functions, even though several forum posts mention it. I will install the free version, if no coding is required, then upgrade to pro as soon as I see that it works for my needs.

You can find that here: Features

Thank you for your inquiry.

I’m very sorry for the delay in response.

– lead capture page as the website homepage
– integration of the S2Member lead capture form with Mailchimp

With this portion, I can’t help with. This is to do with Optimize Press, which s2Member does not directly integrate with, and you mentioned that you customized s2Member’s registration form to skip username field?

I can tell you that when you sign a User up through s2Member, they will be added to a list that you set up here in your Dashboard:

Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / List Servers -› MailChimp®

– have subscribes automatically assigned the Free Membership(there will be a Paid membership too)

If you’re using s2Member’s registration forms, this shouldn’t be an issue. Just specify the level that you want the User to be signed up at in your Shortcode’s level attribute.

See: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Shortcode Attributes (Explained)

– implementing the Content Dripping feature so that also the internal navigation menu is affected by the content dripping (meaning, on day 1, the first menu tab is active and the other 3 are not; on day 2 the first two tabs are active and the other two are not, etc)

I went over changing your navigation menu based on s2Member’s PHP Conditionals here:

https://www.s2member.com/forums/topic/drip-feeding-content-and-menu/#post-43148

As far as your Content Drip goes, this will vary based on what content you want to drip. You can find examples of Content Drips here:

Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Content Dripping

Also See: Knowledge Base » Introduction to Content Dripping in s2Member®

I have had a look at the documentation but don’t really understand how it works, can you recommend any devs who would be able to integrate this for me?

We recommend posting a listing on http://jobs.wordpress.net/, http://elance.com/, or http://odesk.com/. We don’t have any recommended developers at the moment.

Thank you for your inquiry.

It sounds like you lost your validation when s2Member changed its policy on logging recently.

See: s2Member® Unified Changelog » v130404

Make sure you have logging disabled, and that your /s2member-logs/ directory is empty, except for the .htaccess file.

The string “do not access this file directly” is in all of the s2member source code files. Is there some PHP or Apache config that would lead to this? The exact same source and database works on a development host.

s2Member only throws this error when a PHP file of s2Member’s is accessed directly. For example, if you access this URL:

http://www.s2member.com/wp-content/plugins/s2member/s2member.php

You’ll see that you get this error. s2Member checks your PHP SERVER variables and checks to see what page the User is attempting to load to find out if the User is trying to load the file that’s loading. This is a common practice and you’ll see similar functionality in many popular WordPress plugins.

If you’re getting this error then the issue lies either within the URL you’re accessing or your PHP Server variables. Try var_dump’ing your $_SERVER array.

See: http://php.net/manual/en/function.var-dump.php

Thanks for the information.

I just tested this and did some logging on your POST variables that are passed to s2Member when the form is submitted. The variable that should hold your custom fields is completely empty. I looked at the source code for your page and s2Member is generating the HTML input tags correctly, and nothing there is corrupted by the theme. I’m not sure exactly what’s going on yet but we are getting closer.

I understand this is frustrating, but at the current time we are attempting to figure out what exactly is causing this error. You’re saying that inFocus is causing this error yet in our tests we are unable to reproduce this error with inFocus. So I’m assuming that the error is to do with inFocus + something that’s on your site. I’m going to continue to try to diagnose the issue here.

Thank you for your inquiry.

No, you don’t need any additional files for ccBill integration.