About: Tony Sturgess

Just to keep you guys and whoever else following this thread up to date;
I have more or less achieved the desired result by the following means:-
First I downloaded a piece of php script called password_protect.php from zubrag.com/scripts
this was tailored with our own password and uploaded to our root directory of our website.
Then you run this script, i.e. http://www.yourdomain.com/password_protect.php?help
which gives the protection code to include into your web page you want to password protect.
In our case the link to upgrade an s2member is for our clients that don’t need to pay and has a £0.01 payment generated with s2member paypal buttons for level2. the protection code was placed in the page for level 2 access.
All we need to do is inform our paying PT clients of this password to get to the upgrade page. If non clients use the link they can only exit the password screen via a “exit this screen’ link that redirects (logs out) to the other upgrade page that has a charge for downloads for one day only or whatever we decide to charge at a later date, the paypal button on this page was/is generated with s2member paypal buttons for level1.
It is not possible to run the level2 upgrade page any other way so the password must be entered correctly to get to level2. So we have managed to achieve our desired result.
As paypal will not accept a zero payment we had to make the charge of £0.01 for PT clients to go to level2.
If anybody can tell me the code to do this without going via paypal then please notify me.
Also the sidebar menu which lists the member options of login register or logout, update client access level, modify profile plus the downloads are all coded with [s2if …] statements;
i.e. ( { = in the following a a href’s)

[s2If is_user_not_logged_in()]
• {a href=”/wp-login.php”}Login{/a}
• {a href=”/wp-login.php?action=register”}Register{/a}

[/s2If]
[/s2If]
[s2If is_user_logged_in()]

• {a href=/wp-login.php?action=logout}Logout{/a}
• {a href=”/clients/upgrade-silver”}Upgrade Client Access Level{/a}
• {a href=”#” onclick=”window.open(‘http://yourdomain.com/?s2member_profile=1’, ‘_popup’, ‘width=600,height=400,left=100,screenX=100,top=100,screenY=100,location=0,menubar=0,toolbar=0,status=0,scrollbars=1,resizable=1’); return false;”}Modify Profile{/a}

[/s2If]
[s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)]

• {a href=”/?s2member_file_download=exercise/training1.pdf”}Training Program 1{/a}

[/s2If]

We will also place level2 s2if statements in this menu as well.
With these s2if statements level 0 can only see the first 3 member actions and no downloads.
Hope this proves useful to others.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 10 months ago by  Tony Sturgess.
• This reply was modified 4 years, 10 months ago by  Tony Sturgess.
• This reply was modified 4 years, 10 months ago by  Tony Sturgess.
• This reply was modified 4 years, 10 months ago by  Tony Sturgess.
• This reply was modified 4 years, 10 months ago by  Tony Sturgess.

Jason,
Many thanks for the detailed replies to date.
My son, (the founder and owner of his personal training brand) wants this function to be automatic, but he is totally not web aware, on the other hand I\’m from a computing (formally IBM mainframe) background and can create websites etc… still learning the internals of wordpress and now your excellent S2Member package.
So I think your option 1 is a task for me when my son tells me which clients to change. Alternatively I could create an upgrade button that is password protected so that the people that just want the downloads cannot upgrade to the clients material level, I think its best if I just have information about downloads on level 0 then a paypal upgrade to level 1 for the public access and download then the password protected button for the clients to upgrade to level 2 where their own information will be. Once again many thanks for your replies. Tony