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Hi all,

I was wondering if you can help me....

Is it possible to use the s2 member replacement shortcodes in php scripts? I am trying to get the current users ID so that I can feed it into another database which I will run alongside wordpress. I want to reference the entries made by a user with their ID which is assigned to them when they are added into s2 member during registration...that way I can make mysql calls to the database like SELECT * WHERE Author = %%current_user_id%% etc.

Thanks a lot for your help.

Hey!

I'm pretty sure, but correct me if I'm wrong that if the code if outside of the WordPress database, then it won't work, as the the shortcodes most likely link to a constant set by s2Member itself. Therefore, I would imagine that you would have to keep your idea inside of WordPress itself... or perhaps there's a way to link to it?

Hey

Thanks for the reply.

I will only be running these scripts on wordpress pages once someone has logged in. That should be ok shouldnt it? I do similar things in my non wordpress sites by accessing the session information to personalise the content on a per user basis.

Thanks a lot.

Hey all,

I have the solution to what I was answering so thought I would share it here. I'm sure a lot of you know this but just in case, here is come php code to retrieve information about the current logged in user :

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<?php
     $current_user = wp_get_current_user();
 
    echo 'Username: ' . $current_user->user_login . '<br />';
    echo 'User email: ' . $current_user->user_email . '<br />';
    echo 'User first name: ' . $current_user->user_firstname . '<br />';
    echo 'User last name: ' . $current_user->user_lastname . '<br />';
    echo 'User display name: ' . $current_user->display_name . '<br />';
    echo 'User ID: ' . $current_user->ID . '<br />';
?>

Seems to work for me.

Yeah, that should work. If you're in a WordPress page and have a PHP execution plugin, working with the HTML editor it should be possible to use PHP code as you would in a template. I'm pretty sure WP shortcode would still work outside the PHP tags.

These may be helpful:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/
s2Member Codex
WP Admin -> s2Member -> API / Scripting