About: Garry Schafer

Thanks – getting there – but actually thought I’d respond as I did find a way.

Added a filter in s2-hacks.php in mu-plugins and all it does is return true:

add_filter(“ws_plugin__s2member_check_post_level_access_excluded”, “__return_true”);

So it’s bypassing any sort of restrictions. Then I’ve got code in the single checking:

function check_if_premium_content($postID){
		$found = false;		
		for($n=0; $n<=2; $n++){
			$p = "level".$n;
			$target = array_unique(preg_split("/[\r\n\t\s;,]+/", $GLOBALS["WS_PLUGIN__"]["s2member"]["o"][$p."_posts"]));
			if(in_array($postID, $target)){
				$found = $p;
			}
		}

		return $found;
	}

Which I took a bit from your plugin (the select on the post) — now I’m just checking for the postid in the post access, not caring about page or anything.

I can check as a boolean or check on a level. Once I get whether or not it’s protected, I can then check if the current user is logged in and has that level. Just putting it out there in case anyone else wants to know.

By the way – I’m surprised there’s no real built in function to just check the current posts level / protected; you check from the user side (user_can_access) and you have shortcodes/code for displaying differing content to levels, but no quick check for the current content’s level. Would be a nice add.

I’m starting to think Bruce doesn’t love me :(

Thanks Cristián – we got a lot of it done and working, however one thing — if someone comes in and tries to purchase custom capabilities without first registering it seem to throw an error as it can’t find the user that purchased it – and that makes sense to me. So we need to get people to register before purchasing… so thinking of restricting the videos url and forcing free reg before purchases are made…?

Actually – here’s what I’m thinking and any advice just to point me to code or tell me if my thinking is sound.

I’m going to just create a normal membership. Upon every post (I’ve created a custom post of ‘hh-videos’, hh being the client’s name. What I’m thinking I’m going to do is that upon every single video load I will — tell me if this is possible:

1) based upon every single of the video I’m going to get the post_id and pubdate; I wlll generate two custom capabilitiy buttons ont he fly of single_%post_id% and montly_%year%_%month%

2) I will first check to see if the user is a member.
2a) If the current post pubdate is later then his membership join I will show the video / download buttons
2b) if the current post date is prior to his membership date then…

3) I will check if the user has the single capability for that item (again single_%post_id%) — if so, video and download

4) if not I will check the monthly package – is the monthly capability his? if so, video/download, if not

Purchase single / purchase monthly buttons.

Is this doable?