Bruce

Does anyone know what these are exactly and what I can do with them to free up some space?

If you’re not having any problems with your IPN/PDT responses failing, you can (and should) turn off logging. Logging is meant only for debugging these responses. So you will want to first turn off logging:

Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Log Files (Debug) -› Logging Configuration

And then you can delete all of these log files that s2Member Generated via FTP.

Sorry for the delay in response.

Your thread got marked, and didn’t show up on our list. Thanks for your patience.

essentially i want the users integrated into s2 via clickbank handled sale automatically. then sent to download /thankyou page then fianlly the software be able to check s2 member. IE all automatic

s2Member can do this. You just need to set up your ClickBank options and you should see all of the options to do this in your Dashboard with s2Member Pro installed.

See: Dashboard -› s2Member® -› ClickBank® Options -› Thank-You Page Integration

2. i want the software to check if a member of a s2 group “software licensee” via api

You should be able to do this with WordPress’s default functionality. I’m assuming that you’re talking about doing something with custom code. I would say that this WordPress function would work for you:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/current_user_can

You may also want to check out our shortcode conditionals:

Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Simple/Shortcode Conditionals

Thanks for your patience.

I talked with Jason (Lead Developer) about this. Right now you’re going to have to edit line #151 of this file to accomplish this:

/s2member-pro/includes/classes/gateways/paypal/paypal-checkout-in.inc.php

You’d change this line:

$paypal_set_xco["LANDINGPAGE"] = "Billing";

To this:

$paypal_set_xco["LANDINGPAGE"] = "Login";

Based on the documentation:

I’m submitting a change to the source code to add a filter to this file that will make it possible to change this via filter, as gone over in this article in the next release of s2Member so you don’t have to keep editing this file when s2Member gets updated:

Knowledge Base » Hacking s2Member® Via Hooks/Filters

I’ll update this thread when that’s done. Thanks!

$voted = 1;
$custom_fields = get_user_option('aaa_s2member_custom_fields');
$custom_fields['district_voted'] = $voted;
update_user_option($user->ID, 'aaa_s2member_custom_fields', $custom_fields);

You don't need to put the prefix in here if you're using update_user_option(). WordPress does this automatically. Try this:

$voted = 1;
$custom_fields = get_user_option('s2member_custom_fields');
$custom_fields['district_voted'] = $voted;
update_user_option($user->ID, 's2member_custom_fields', $custom_fields);

Thank you for your inquiry.

1. Those it offer an option to create an affiliate program?

s2Member provides the ability to integrate with an affiliate program in this part of the Dashboard:

Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Tracking

Our most popular integration is with iDevAffiliate, but you could really integrate pretty much any affiliate program. s2Member doesn’t track referrals itself.

For the files to download i dont see the necessity of asking people to register in order to access the free files, so this part would be really simple, people would just click on whatever file they wish to download and downloaded.

s2Member protects all downloads from the protects s2member-files directory. If you want to offer downloads to Users that are not logged in, this is possible, but you need to use a file download key, so that it bypasses these protections. s2Member makes that possible with the file downloads shortcode.

Some people are only looking for a single specific file and if they have to enrol in a membership to get it that might drive them away, so the option of purchasing the single file as well as the membership enrolment buttons would be presented to them when they go to the individual file page. Can this be easily done with your plugin?

To accomplish this, you’d want to sell Custom Capabilities for each (or many) files. You can create directories in your s2member-files directory that protect files by custom capability using the information gone over in the Dashboard here:

Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Custom Capability and Member Level Files

For instance, if you wanted a file to be protected by the Custom Capability thisfile, you would create this directory in the s2member-files directory:

/access-s2member-ccap-thisfile/

For information on Custom Capabilities, you can check out the first video in this playlist:

Video » s2Member (Custom Capabilities)

And this part of your Dashboard:

Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Custom Capabilities

Thank you for your inquiry.

Can i ask technical questions as free plugin user or do i have to buy first for ask technical questions?

Questions that aren’t related to if s2Member Pro can accomplish something can be asked in the Community Forums. We (Staff) don’t always monitor the Community Forums but there are many community members that might be able to answer your question. :-)

You see from the above however that I would like differentiate between “Members Only” and “Premium” posts. A person that isn’t logged in only sees the “restricted-corner” on every post instead of the “premium-corner” on premium posts.

The is_permitted_by_s2member() function that s2Member creates returns TRUE or FALSE depending on if a User is allowed access a Post/Page. Currently, with the way that you’re using this function, I’m unsure how you’re accomplishing anything. The only possible way to call is_permitted_by_s2member() without any parameters should be if you’re calling it within The Loop in your theme, as stated in the docs:

http://www.s2member.com/codex/stable/s2member/api_functions/package-functions/#src_doc_is_permitted_by_s2member()

That being said, if you would like to get information back on the type of protection on a Post/Page/Category/URI, you can use this function instead:

http://www.s2member.com/codex/stable/s2member/api_functions/package-functions/#src_doc_is_protected_by_s2member()

This returns an array of data for the protection. You can use this information to determine whether content is protected at a certain level, and change the message that you want based on that.

Would that work for you?

mean, once he registers with this fee, is there anyway to make him pay only for the content he wishes? So that, we do not need registration fees every now and then but user should pay for the content individually. That is, he will be the same user all the time with one login ID but can buy any content. Is this possible?

You can protect certain content and sell this content with Custom Capabilities if you like. Custom Capabilities are separate from Membership Levels, and you can sell as many or as few as you like. You can check out how they work in this section of you Dashboard:

Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Custom Capabilities

Or if you’d like to learn some of the advanced portions of Custom Capabilities, you can check out this video:

Video » s2Member (Custom Capabilities)

Cool, thanks for the update. Let us know if you have any further issues. :-)

I did, however follow the authnet shortcode instructions and added the template file within the signup shortcode. Unfortunately, that did not work.

With the template attribute, you have to do a relative path from your themes directory. Did you try moving your template to your themes directory instead of your child theme’s directory? Maybe there was an issue with the path.

If you can’t figure that out, send me a Dashboard Login here, and I’ll take a look:

s2Member® » Private Contact Form

At the risk of sounding stupid, should I leave the version update to my webmaster or is it simple enough for me to do?

You should be able to do this yourself. Just update s2Member through the Dashboard as you would normally (through the Plugins Menu), and then you should be prompted with a log in box afterward. Put in your s2Member.com Credentials and the s2Member Pro module should update automatically.

Thanks for your patience.

Looking at your logs, it looks like something’s happening to your custom attribute. You’re getting this error:

2 => 'Unable to verify $_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"]. Please check the custom value in your Button Code. It MUST start with your domain name.',

Based on the shortcode sample that you provided in your first reply, I’m assuming that you have your custom attribute set up correctly. That means that this is probably an issue with either Object Caching in your installation of WordPress, or something is filtering this value out of your HTTP connections, either to or from WordPress.

Normally I see this problem happening when W3 Total Cache is installed and has Object Caching enabled, but I’m not seeing that problem on your domain. I’m going to have to ask you to follow the first two steps in this article, and run a test transaction:

Knowledge Base » Common Troubleshooting Tips