About: Vincent Miele

Bruce
I had read in posts from last year that this was planned. I am hoping you guys roll this out soon as I really cannot proceed until I find this solution

thanks
Vin

Let me switch gears for a minute.

There is a lot of talk on Easy Digital Downloads.
This forum post asked about it with no response: http://www.s2member.com/forums/topic/easy-digital-downloads/

I would like to elaborate on the user’s questions.

EDD allows me to add products to database, and keeps track of sales, downloads, provides reports, and many other features. It is really good (and free). But it doesn’t implement s2member restrictions.

Example:
I have different levels of membership, each with restrictions on number of downloads.

Using a link like: http://www.website.com/?s2member_file_download=example-file.zip works perfectly and brings up an alert telling user he/she has 9 downloads left this month (or whatever time period)

EDD allows you to put a LINK for the product, so I put the product link as the s2member link.

Unfortunately, when the user click the download button, the link looks like:

http://www.website.com?did=226&vp_edd_act=show_download

and when clicked, it looks for the product’s URL:

http://www.website.com/?s2member_file_download=example-file.zip

But it just brings up the save/open dialog box and bypasses s2member restrictions.

Both are using the same link in the end, the process is just a little different. Curious to know why this behavior occurs, and if you can think of a way to get this to work. If you can, you will solve a TON of problems that many of your users have.

thanks

As great as s2member is, it is really lacking in basic features such as the ability to track downloads. I was really hoping it would work with Easy Digital Download, but it doesn’t. I read on another forum if EDD could be compatible with s2member, but EDD said it could be, but they are working on their own membership plugin.

I believe the features are somewhere built into your plugin to do what I originally asked above but my questions were really not answered. You also spoke in the forums last year about integrating some kind of “cart” system, but it looks like that hasn’t happened. That’s fine, and I think the ability to do what I need is in there with your codex already.

But without the ability to incorporate tracking downloads without the need to hire a developer, I would be unable to utilize this.

thanks

Now, if you go to the database, you could change their blog ID from 1 to 6 directly and not need to copy the accounts. 

Can it be as simple as changing a value in the database directly? If so, that’s all I would really need to do. What would that field/value be…originating blog, primary blog…?

thanks for the help

Not sure if I’ve made headway …but I see something that is happening

Sometimes, when i load the general options page, it REFRESHES all by itself as I scroll down the page. It then says options saved, and the recaptcha fields are replaced by my wordpress username.

One thought is that it has something to do with the Roboform (password toolbar). But there is no explanation as to when YOU logged in and it was replaced by “Administrator”

This happens randomly…like an “auto-refresh”. I don’t know why it happens.

Sorry, I didn’t say you went there in the morning…I had said “when I logged in in the morning”…the first key was replaced with “Administrator”. When it happens to me, the first key becomes MY wordpress login (I don’t use “administrator”)

Anyway, after deleting the cache file, it still happens. I know you are racking your brain trying to figure it out. Everytime I go in, I am tracing my steps to see if I can replicate….but it just happens randomly.

If you can’t figure this out, I hope you can provide a workaround to at least “protect” what’s in there. It’s such a freakish thing as I have no trouble with any other part of s2member.

v

It’s very hard to test. It just happens randomly. I go in and check, the values are replaced. I’m not even making changes in the general options page.

Very frustrating as I’m losing members because they can’t sign up if I don’t keep checking at least twice a day.

Chritian
The code above works well and I will use it in conjunction with CCAPS. That’s good enough for me.
Thanks

I’m almost there. I just didn’t understand the first part
“You could first check by email address if the user is already registered.”

That’s the biggest part of this. This might not be feasable…or require really advanced programming,
but the scenarios are

1. If user does not have an account at all, create it at level 1
2. If user has account, and both email and username match, check LEVEL – if 0, upgrade to 1. If 1, we’re set
and no new account is required.
3. If email account exsists, but username is different…UGG, what do we do here?

Any final help on this subject would be appreciated

Christian, you guys and s2member are amazing. I didn’t think I could do this, but I’ve made some headway on this and we’re 90% there. There are 2 issues that I have to resolve.

I implemented this code in the “thank you page”

<?php
 
$op["op"] = "create_user"; // The Remote Operation.

$op["api_key"] = "**************************************"; // Check your Dashboard for this value.
   // See: `s2Member -› API / Scripting -› Remote Operations API -› API Key`

$op["data"] = array (
   "user_login" => "$name", // Required. A unique Username. Lowercase alphanumerics/underscores.
   "user_email" => "$email", // Required. A valid/unique Email Address for the new User.

   // These additional details are 100% completely optional.

   "modify_if_login_exists" => "1", // Optional. Update/modify if ``user_login`` value already exists in the database?
       // A non-zero value tells s2Member to update/modify an existing account with the details you provide, if this Username already exists.

   "user_pass" => "", // Optional. Plain text Password. If empty, this will be auto-generated.

   "first_name" => "$firstname", // Optional. First Name for the new User.
   "last_name" => "$lastname", // Optional. Last Name for the new User.

   "s2member_level" => "1", // Optional. Defaults to Level #0 (a Free Subscriber).
   "s2member_ccaps" => "nextgen", // Optional. Comma-delimited list of Custom Capabilities.

   "s2member_registration_ip" => "", // Optional. User's IP Address. If empty, s2Member will fill this upon first login.

   "s2member_custom" => "www.mysite.com", // Optional. If provided, should always start with your installation domain name (i.e. $_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"]).

   "s2member_notes" => "Administrative notation. Created this User via API call.", // Optional. Administrative notations.

   "opt_in" => "1", // Optional. A non-zero value tells s2Member to attempt to process any List Servers you've configured in the Dashboard area.
       // This may result in your mailing list provider sending the User/Member a subscription confirmation email (i.e. ... please confirm your subscription).

   "notification" => "1", // Optional. A non-zero value tells s2Member to email the new User/Member their Username/Password.
       // The "notification" parameter also tells s2Member to notify the site Administrator about this new account.
);

$post_data = stream_context_create (array ("http" => array ("method" => "POST", "header" => "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded", "content" => "s2member_pro_remote_op=" . urlencode (serialize ($op)))));

$result = trim (file_get_contents ("http://www.pianowizardacademy.com/campus/?s2member_pro_remote_op=1", false, $post_data));

if (!empty ($result) && !preg_match ("/^Error\:/i", $result) && is_array ($user = @unserialize ($result)))
   echo "Success. New User created with ID: " . $user["ID"];
else
   echo "API error reads: " . $result;
?> 

It successfully created the user and generated the email admin and the user. Wondeful! That said,

1. For the test, i used custom capability, which I can use to deliver the protected content. But that’s not really how I want to deliver it. I want the give access to the protected Specific Post/Page link. Is there a line I can add in there for that?

2. Orders are coming in through our shopping cart (1shoppingcart). The script above generates a user name with their FULL NAME. Problem is if the “email account already exists” as a member, it says API error, email already exists. In other words, the customer may ALREADY have an account, but under a different username (other than their full-name) with the same email.

One possible solution to this may be creating a custom field in the shoppingcart, but I’d have to figure that out and see if I can pass that value. However, this may not be realistic since the membership option is product specific. So another solution may be needed.

Thank you again for you help.

Christian
It hasn’t happened since I submitted the ticket. Yet, I’m sure it’s strange.

I wonder if “ROBOFORM” has anything to do with it. Not sure if you are familiar with it, but it’s a toolbar that maintains all your logins/passwords. For the captcha fields to be filled with what appears to be the wordpress login, I wonder if somehow it is submitting the login there.

But I’m watching it very closely.

good tool Christian. I have a new bookmark.

thanks

I figured the functionality was there all along.

Now to figure out how to combine the two

i.e.
http://www.s2member.com/forums/topic/bypassing-the-login-welcome-page/?qcAC=1#post-42611″

and

<a href="” title=”Login”>Login

Knowing you’re not out to help develop web sites, using the forum example, where do you think I might begin to look to make that change?

thanks