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Re: HTML Link Instead of Form/Button for Paypal Subscribe

2011-11-02T02:10:42-05:00

Cool! Glad I could help.

Statistics: Posted by Cristián Lávaque — November 2nd, 2011, 2:10 am

Re: HTML Link Instead of Form/Button for Paypal Subscribe

2011-11-01T11:35:49-05:00

Cristián Lávaque wrote:
Raam, have you tried using the anchor or URL output for the shortcode? WP Admin -> s2Member -> PayPal Button -> Shortcode Attributes -> output

Cristián, the URL output option is exactly what I was looking for -- thanks! I'll update my original post with the 'correct' solution to prevent confusion for others.

Cheers!

Statistics: Posted by Raam Dev — November 1st, 2011, 11:35 am

Re: HTML Link Instead of Form/Button for Paypal Subscribe

2011-11-01T00:06:26-05:00

Raam, have you tried using the anchor or URL output for the shortcode? WP Admin -> s2Member -> PayPal Button -> Shortcode Attributes -> output

Statistics: Posted by Cristián Lávaque — November 1st, 2011, 12:06 am

Re: HTML Link Instead of Form/Button for Paypal Subscribe

2011-10-31T12:04:33-05:00

I fell asleep last night thinking about this problem and I realized that I could use JavaScript to achieve what I wanted: First, I hide the submit button using CSS, then I submit the form using JavaScript by adding onClick to the link HTML.

However, before I can do any of that, I need to give the s2Member form a name. Both the shortcode-generated form and the HTML provided by the button generator don't have a form a name.

How to Create an HTML link that submits Subscribe buttons

Update: As Cristián points out below, this can be achieved using the output="url" shortcode option (read more here: WP Admin -> s2Member -> PayPal Button -> Shortcode Attributes).

By changing the output option to 'url', the shortcode will return a raw URL that we can then use in an anchor tag to create a link:

Code:: Subscribe to the Journal ($5/month)

When the post is published, that code turns into a link that allows my reader to subscribe to my journal:

Statistics: Posted by Raam Dev — October 31st, 2011, 12:04 pm

Re: HTML Link Instead of Form/Button for Paypal Subscribe

2011-10-31T11:17:31-05:00

Creating an link with would not be possible, since s2member passes hidden variables in through the form, which cannot be passed in a link. However, you could create something similar by pointing to an image that doesn't exist and changing the alt="" in the form.

Statistics: Posted by Bruce C — October 31st, 2011, 11:17 am

HTML Link Instead of Form/Button for Paypal Subscribe

2011-10-30T20:09:55-05:00

I'd like to create an HTML subscription link that works with s2Member instead of using a