About: chris mitchell

Hi Nigel, you can email me at chris@mitchellmarketing.com to continue the discussion. If you want, include your skype name in the email and we can talk about it directly.

@John, I found this script. http://blog.stefan-macke.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/wp-useriplogin.phps
I think if used with a custom IP address field stored during user registration, it might be along the lines of what we need to auto login users. It’s an old post, but could possibly be updated. Just an FYI.

Hi John,

I really appreciate the time you’ve taken to try to help me out with this. As mentioned above, I have a customer who is willing to pay for 30 seats to my app. That’s about a $1,000 sale. So I am quite motivated to find solutions to this question. In return for your help, I’ll be sure to share with you whatever I work out. Still waiting for further news from Ryan with the plugin.

Regardless of how that (Ryan’s plugin) turns out, I think it should be a fairly simple to task to get a PHP developer to build out the script above in a little more detail so that it processes each user account either as a standard access account – i.e. an account without any specific IP addresses associated, or as an IP-based access account. I have upgraded my registration form to capture the range of IP addresses that the customer wishes to use to access my app. So it seems like it should be possible to hook it all together.

So, how do you handle new sign ups? Seemingly each new subscriber to your site would get a unique username. How do you manage it when all customers with IP based access are under one username (and presumably email address)?

Regards,
Chris

Update…. Although automatic IP-based login did seem to work when I hard-coded my own IP, it also seems to have broken my admin panel. Couldn’t search for users etc. I don’t have quick cache activated. But I am using a number of other plugins on the site. Full stop at this point. :-(

Any suggestions?

@Bruce, can you confirm?
1. Is the content of the plugin file (s2hack_auto_ip_login.php) simply, “$ips = array(‘127.0.0.1’); # This array should be filled with possible IPs the visitors could be using” ?

John, after hours or searching various support forums on this site, I’m starting to piece this together. But still need some help getting all the pieces to work. As far as I can see, these are the steps to implementing group access from a block of IPs and charging a central user for multi-seat access to a site…

1. I think I can accomplish the financial aspect of multi-seat / multi-license access based on a range of IP addresses, i.e. charging a recurring membership for say, 20 seats, by either creating more membership levels or by creating custom capabilities. For scalability, I would probably create several multi-seat membership options: 10 seats, 20 seats, etc. and set a unique recurring subscription fee for each. According to my research on this site, this would be better accomplished with custom capabilities than with increasing the number of membership levels. But the documentation on custom capabilities is vague. I don’t see specific instructions anywhere on how to create additional membership types with custom capabilities and then implement them on page restriction and on the order form. The documentation and videos are too brief to provide a complete picture.

2. I think I can bypass the 5 Unique IPs / user / month restriction based on userID using the code snippet from this post by your support rep, Bruce: http://www.s2member.com/forums/topic/ip-restrictions/ However, again, I don’t see how to implement this script. I don’t know where to put this file or how to make sure it’s implemented into the system. Can you provide specifics please? The post is closed to new replies so I can’t ask Bruce about it.

3. I would then create the MU Plugin you mentioned above. But I am unclear on the following: Should I add your function code to my functions.php file? Or should I put this somewhere else? And, is the single line of code that you mentioned above to create the array of IP addresses the only line of code that needs to be in the .php file? Or is there other php code that needs to be in there.

I apologize for all the questions, but if these posts were worth answering in part, I am hopeful that answering them in full detail so non-programmers could make them work would be worthwhile as well. Also, this might prevent some questions in the future as it would be clearly laid out, once and for all.

Thanks again, Chris

Hi John, I’ve heard back from Ryan and he is making sure his plugin is up to snuff and then, I believe, he is going to send me a copy. So thanks again for that.

All of this has been for a client who wants to purchase multiple seats and get auto login based on IP address. So I am about to take a swing at this.

In the interest of speed, can you recommend the best way to handle selling multiple seats to one user? Under the scenario above, I would create just one user ID. But there will be 20 seats. Should I create a new membership level to handle this? Or is there a way to set up S2 so that a user can enter a number of licenses at checkout? We think we may begin having a number of institutional users who will need a multi-seat setup.

Any pointers greatly appreciated!

Thanks John. Do i need to email ryan directly to get that plugin, or is it available elsewhere? Does it do everything that the hack above does, or does it just allow for the IP ranges.

Thanks again, Chris

PS I am, in fact a paying customer of your plugin. I don’t know why I am showing as a free user. My website which uses your paid plugin is ifastfacts.com. Can you also help me get this fixed?