About: John Prusinski

First let me say I’m really appreciative of S2member’s tech support!

And… I have another follow-up on this issue:

This is the code I’m now using, which replaces the array with a routine for reading the Certification Numbers from an external text file:

<?php
$cert = get_user_field ("cert_number");
  $fh=fopen('http://ecbiz119.inmotionhosting.com/~nappit5/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/datafile.txt','r');
  $query=$cert; 
  $found=FALSE;
  while(!$found && $line=fgets($fh))
  {
    if(trim($line)==$query)
      $found=TRUE;
	$user = wp_set_current_user(S2MEMBER_CURRENT_USER_ID);
	$user->set_role('s2member_level1');
  }
  fclose($fh);
  echo "Certification {$query} was ". ($found?'':'not ') .'found';
?>

You’ll note I also replaced

$user = new WP_User(S2MEMBER_CURRENT_USER_ID);

with

$user = wp_set_current_user(S2MEMBER_CURRENT_USER_ID);

and that changes the user’s role immediately upon loading the page, instead of only after reloading. This all works great! Except for one thing: it no longer sends a notification by email when a new member registers.

Any idea why this is happening, or what I can do about it?

Thanks!

You’re welcome! As it turns out, the code worked better if I used ‘get_user_field (“cert_number”)’ instead of get_s2member_custom_fields and then looked for the “cert_number” field.

I do have one slight glitch, however, which is that the code establishes the role correctly, but not on first load of the page. I tested this with this code:

<?php
$valid_certs = array(1,2,3,4,);
$cert = get_user_field ("cert_number");
if (isset($_GET['first']) && !empty($cert) && in_array($cert, $valid_certs)) {
	$user = new WP_User(S2MEMBER_CURRENT_USER_ID);
	$user->set_role('s2member_level1');
}
?>

[s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)]
    Hello Trainer. Your certification number is [s2Get user_field="cert_number" /]
[/s2If]

[s2If !current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)]
    I'm sorry, this area of the site is for NAPPI Certified Trainers only.  Thanks!
[/s2If]

When the page first loads, the text “I’m sorry, this area of the site is for NAPPI Certified Trainers only. Thanks!” is what appears, even if the user does have a Certification number; however, if I reload the page, the correct text, “Hello Trainer… etc.” shows up instead, leading me to believe that the role-setting code doesn’t execute immediately, before the code below it is read.

It’s not the end of the world if that’s not possible; since the user level IS properly set, I can just work around the issue. But it would be more elegant to force the role-setting code to execute immediately; is that possible?

Thanks!

Wait, back to the drawing board… I removed the second two conditions, and now “First” is echoed. That means the issue is somewhere else. I’ll beat it up for awhile longer and hopefully solve it, if not I’ll be back for another round…

Thanks for your help!

Hi, Thanks again… it’s not getting too complicated for me, but it’s not working. I used your exact code, and everything is executing without errors, but it doesn’t seem to be successfully setting the variable “first”.

I made a new Login Welcome page, so that I can tell that the One-Time Offer is working (i.e., it sends the user to the new page only on first login, after that it sends them to the old page). The url is showing up correctly when it does that, with the variable “first” in the browser url field.

However, it’s not changing the user’s level to 1. To test that the variable was being set correctly, I added this code to the page:

<?php
$valid_certs = array(1,2,3,4,);
$cfields = get_s2member_custom_fields();
if (isset($_GET['first']) && !empty($cfields['cert_number']) && in_array($cfields['cert_number'], $valid_certs)) {
  echo "First";
} else {
  echo "Variable is NOT set";
}
?>

which invariably returns “Variable is NOT set”.

I also have:

<?php if (current_user_can("access_s2member_level1")){ ?>
    Hello Trainer.
<?php } else { ?>
    Epic fail.
<?php } ?>

[s2Get user_field="cert_number" /]

Which returns “Epic fail”, but also does show the cert_number variable correctly (I’ve tried all the numbers in the array, 1, 2, 3, and 4 at different times), which shows that the conditionals would be met in the if statement, if isset was finding the variable ‘first’.

Does that make sense? Any suggestions? Thanks!

Hi, thanks for responding so quickly. I’m still unsure of how to proceed, even on a basic level. I had already seen the doc page for S2Get custom fields, and I’ve been able to use that to, for instance, show on the Welcome page the name of the currently logged in member, the “true” or “false” for their answer to the “certified trainer?” radio button, and their Certification Number after they log in.

However, I don’t know the syntax to set up the conditional for which the “translation” would be something like “if currently-logged-in-user is a certified trainer then show this content”. Or, even less, “if the registrant’s entry in the certification number field is 560369, check this list to see if that’s a valid number, and if it is, set their member level to 1”.

The links you sent me have lots of information which I suspect would be highly useful if I had a more basic understanding of how to apply it, but I really need some initial help at a more basic level before I can make sense of it.

Thanks in advance!