Bruce

Thank you for your inquiry.

– My client needs to manually approve members to the website by looking at their experience and profile info provided during the sign-up process.
– Only when a prospective member is manually approved by the admin, should they be charged the recurring membership fee.

You can have your client upgrade members through the Dashboard after reviewing their profile. However s2Member doesn’t save credit card information or the like for security reasons (mostly PCI Compliance). You could, however, have Users sign up through a Pro Form with a 1-week trial, and as long as your client reviews their profile within a week, they can cancel the subscription before the User is charged.

– Do I need PayPal Pro for this if its at all possible or will the PayPal Standard Business version suffice.

This depends on if you want to process credit cards on or off site. If you’re okay with sending Users to PayPal for all transactions, then PayPal Pro isn’t needed.

Anyway as far as hooks, I meant that if I write something in PHP can I pass the logged in use from S2 login to my PHP script?

Yes you can use PHP GET variables and pass the information you want to your script like this:

http://example.com?user_login=%%current_user_login%%/

Then you could get the variable like this:

<?php $user_login = $_GET['user_login']; ?>

See: http://php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.get.php

Thank you for your inquiry.

We appreciate your patience.

1. When someone goes to http://agentdomain.com, I want them to be shown a login page and NOT have access to any of the page content. What is the best way to set this up?

The easiest way to do this would be put the URI restriction “/” in the first box here to restrict access to your site (except the Membership Options Page) to Users that are not logged in:

Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Restriction Options -› URI Access Restrictions

For your homepage, s2Member does not have any way to protect this, and it’s normally not required. The only way you could do this is using s2Member’s Advanced PHP Conditionals. You can create a Must-Use Plugin file and put this code in it:

<?php
add_action('init', 's2hack_protect_homepage');
function s2hack_protect_homepage() {
	if(is_home() && !is_user_logged_in()) { // If the User isn't logged in on the home page...
		wp_redirect(S2MEMBER_MEMBERSHIP_OPTIONS_PAGE_URL); // ... redirect to the Membership Options Page
		exit();
	}
}
&#91;/hilite&#93;

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2. After they are logged with level 0 they will have pages that are custom for them using the %%current_user_login%% replacement codes. So basically I will build a custom page for each agent, with tools that access their information. Is there an api that will allow me to pass hooks to my tools from the agents custom page?
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I'm not sure what you mean by "pass hooks" here. Could you clarify what exactly you're looking or?

s2Member does allow some replacement codes to pass to a custom Login Welcome Page URL, which you can use with some PHP on the WordPress Page is redirects to. You'll need a PHP Execution Plugin.

See: <a href="http://www.s2member.com/kb/ezphp-plugin/">Knowledge Base » ezPHP Plugin for WordPress®</a>
See Also: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› General Options -› Login Welcome Page

3. When the agent updates their profile is there an api I can use on another website (my real estate company site) that will get the agents profile from http://agentdomain.com so I can post it on http://realestatebroker.com site?

No, s2Member doesn’t have anything like this, really. You could try something with s2Member’s API Notifications and Remote Operations, but this won’t update when a User modifies their profile.

See: Knowledge Base » Building An API Notification Handler
See Also: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Remote Operations API

Also I would like to set http://agentdomain.com/%%current_user_login%%/ as the home page after login, but how do I do this in WordPress?

You could use a hack similar to the one I posted for your first question. WordPress doesn’t have any functionality like this.

Your suggestion doesn’t work. But I have try before to copy the plugin CSS and JavaScript directly to my theme folder, thus I would like to know which s2member pro CSS and JS should be copied over if I want to try.

Sorry to hear that. s2Member has PHP in its JavaScript and CSS, and it requires that you use s2Member’s processes here to load it:

s2member/includes/classes/css-js-in.inc.php
s2member/includes/classes/css-js-themes.inc.php

Thank you for your inquiry.

I went over this in this post:

http://www.s2member.com/forums/topic/hidden-custom-field-to-store-affiliate-id/#post-48777

Hi, I’m probably going to have a “join the membership” tab on my menu that non-members will see on the page before they become paying members. But once they are paying members, I’d love to see that tab vanish (much like certain pages are hidden for non-members). Is this possible to do?

Yes. You can do this but you’ll need to use s2Member’s Advanced PHP Conditionals to accomplish this. You can find documentation on these here:

Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Advanced PHP Conditionals

Is there a way i could read the cookie value in the payment notification script? Or i need to add the affiliate id to the user profile upon registration? If so then what would be the best way of storing the affiliate id with the customer profile so that i can read it from ther user instance in the payment notification script?

You could use the information provided in this Knowledge Base Article to pass the affiliate ID on checkout as a custom value through your payment gateway.

See: Knowledge Base » Using Variables In A Shortcode

From the docs
(Dashboard -› s2Member® -› PayPal® Pro Forms -› Shortcode Attributes (Explained)):

custom=”example.com” must start with your domain. Additional values can be piped in (ex: custom=”example.com|cv1|cv2|cv3|etc”). Not valid when cancel=”1″.

Note that you’ll need to save this information using one of the solutions provided in API / Tracking or API / Notifications.

See: Knowledge Base » Building An API Notification Handler

I have checked this is the theme conflict. Actualy, the theme is a free version but I found it has used the base64 encrypted that I cannot make change on it. I would like to seek your advise, how to override this problem?

The best course of action would be to contact the theme developer, but if that’s out of the equation, I might suggest adding these lines to the bottom of your header.php file (within PHP tags, of course):

c_ws_plugin__s2member_css_js_in::css();
c_ws_plugin__s2member_css_js_in::js_w_globals();

If that doesn’t work, I’m unsure what else you can do. You need to have s2Member load in its CSS and JavaScript at some point during its load.

But to come back to the issue I started with. The EOT I filled manually is not in the export and that is really what I need.

What export are you talking about exactly? The export here?

Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Import/Export -› User/Member Exportation

yes, download history shows products purchased. but Recurring Payments DO NOT SHOW WHAT PRODUCT THE PAYMENT IS FOR! Not even the sub#.

anyone else run into this when downloading history from PayPal and trying to do accounting?

That’s something on PayPal’s side of things, and I’d recommend contacting PayPal directly on how you might accomplish what you need here. If PayPal has a way (which I’m pretty much certain they do not, as they’re processing the recurring payments on their side) to provide that information in recurring payments, let us know and we’ll have our development team look into it.

Alternatively, if you’d like to have a cleaner way of keeping your records, you might have a developer look into setting up a Payment Notification handler with s2Member. s2Member does get the Subscription ID for these payments, and you can use this information if you know a bit of PHP.

See: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Notifications -› Payment Notifications
See Also: Knowledge Base » Building An API Notification Handler

Now I know there is a hack to add custom S2 Fields but there is no way of getting my buddypress profile feilds into S2 that are created when someone joins as a free member.

So my Question is How can I call Buddypress x profile fields into the hack that sends extra info to mailchimp instead of the custom fields you can create in S2 Member ?

The answer to your issues here is to use s2Member for creating these profile fields. If you’ll check in your settings here, s2Member allows you to integrate your Custom Registration/Profile fields right into BuddyPress, but BuddyPress won’t allow you to do the same back to s2Member.

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

That’s the only way that it’s currently possible to get what you want.

Once I logged out, ran the test, logged back in, and looked at the WP-email-log, it showed that email was sent, however still not received in my inbox. Your suggestion to this was get WP-Mail-SMTP plugin to send emails using SMTP instead of default WordPress setting.

I did this, ran another test, and everything worked perfect!

Thanks for the information! Let us know if you run into any more issues. :-)