Displaying User Role on the Site

[peeld]

You should contact Bruce through his website - I'm sure if TWO people are willing to pay it'll be a little more likely he'll do it

[s2pidkaspr]

well, im hoping i dont need to pay for this one, since i just want to know how to make it possible for s2member's functionality. It's not like a deep code query or something. LOL

Like I said, i just want to show off their s2member's level membership on wordpress comments, so that people who are either logged in members or just normal visitors would pass by reading a page with comments would see if those comment authors are upgraded members of the site or whatsoever. Its kind of just to make the comment section a little more detailed.

[peeld]

I always want something for free But as my membership site grows, I find my time is $$ for this sort of stuff, I'm busy trying to teach on my site and the admin stuff is taking over

[s2pidkaspr]

yeah i know..though im seeking support for s2member only. its not like they have to do much work on my site. =/ but yeah, i really dont think what im asking is hard, its just that i cant find the right code for the functionality i want to work..

[Cristián Lávaque]

That code actually works, however, it is displaying the current logged in user's status...NOT each comment author's status....

For example, if the member is Gold Member, and i put the functionality on comments, it will display on every single comment of every authors....that's NOT what i'm trying to do. I want it like if the comment author is SILVER MEMBER, it will show on their comment and if the comment author is GOLD it will show them that...even if BOTH authors, post on the same page....

EDIT:
Also, I want the comment author to show their status (Gold, Silver, etc) on their comments, even if the MEMBER or VISITOR is logged out...

You have to enter the comment author's ID to the function or it'll default to the current user (the one viewing it). It's in the function's documentation I linked to. Here's an example:

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$comment_author_access_label = get_user_field('s2member_access_label', $comment_author_id);
 

I hope that helps!

[s2pidkaspr]

Wow! It works now Christian. Thanks!
However, that code didn't worked itself, but the idea is.
Here's the code that actually make it work for me.

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$comment_author_access_label = get_user_field('s2member_access_label', ($comment->user_id));

So i put in

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<?php echo $comment_author_access_label = get_user_field('s2member_access_label', ($comment->user_id)); ?>

But anyway, thanks! Your code idea really helped out.

By the way, is there anyway to use "s2member_access_role" function that is not showing s2member_level1. As their role for upgraded members? I mean, I tried to use "s2member_access_role" on that code, and it shows admin as "administrator", editor as "editor", contributor as "contributor"...BUT, for members s2member level 1-4. It shows "s2member_level1", "s2member_level2" and so on.

Is it possible to make it show like what brand they have been named to? Like s2member_level1 as "Bronze", s2member_level2 as "Silver" and so on, while maintaining the administrator, editor, and contributor role for staff members?

Don't get me wrong though, "s2member_access_label" works just fine as I want it to be. But the admin show's the highest s2member_level (Gold), which is 4 on my site. I'm fine with that.

But just to make it more detailed, i want users to know who is commenting, it may be a staff or just a regular/upgraded member. You get what i mean? So i'm hoping to use "s2member_access_role" instead for that. If ever its not possible to do what i want, then i think i'm going to stick using "s2member_access_label" which works fine to me.

Again, thank you Christian and more power to s2member. Great support!

[peeld]

This actually worked for you? It's returning PLATINUM MEMBER for everybody for me, which I assume is MY role....what other code was needed besides your snippet above?

Daisy

[s2pidkaspr]

what? you talking to me? =/
what do you mean it is showing platinum member for everybody to you?

[peeld]

Heh - yes, talkin to you.

And yes, it's showing platinum member for everybody to me.

[s2pidkaspr]

how did you know the my site? i dont think i remember that i showed it here..hmmm...and i dont see you as my user in the site?

well, i think its working for me fine...may i know what is your username that is showing platinum for you?

[peeld]

No, it's showing as platinum member on MY site for everybody

[s2pidkaspr]

ohhh...so not in my site? well..i dont know about that...

[peeld]

That's why I'm asking you - did just that one line of code do the trick for you, or was there more code you had to put elsewhere, like in your s2-hacks file?

[s2pidkaspr]

no..that's just the code i put in..i tried the s2hacks file but since it doesn't work on me..i removed it..may i know whats your site?

[peeld]

http://classroom.daisypeel.com

[Cristián Lávaque]

Wow! It works now Christian. Thanks!
However, that code didn't worked itself, but the idea is.

Of course, you had to use the actual variable with the user ID in your code. I just wrote that variable to make it descriptive of what it should be. I'm glad you figured it out and got it working.

But just to make it more detailed, i want users to know who is commenting, it may be a staff or just a regular/upgraded member. You get what i mean? So i'm hoping to use "s2member_access_role" instead for that. If ever its not possible to do what i want, then i think i'm going to stick using "s2member_access_label" which works fine to me.

For that you'd need to customize your code a little bit more... You could work with roles and then use an array to show the label you want for each, or check if the role has 's2member' in it and if so get the label.

Again, thank you Christian and more power to s2member. Great support!

Thanks for the kudos! Glad to help.

[Cristián Lávaque]

That's why I'm asking you - did just that one line of code do the trick for you, or was there more code you had to put elsewhere, like in your s2-hacks file?

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<?php echo $comment_author_access_label = get_user_field('s2member_access_label', ($comment->user_id)); ?>

That line of code in the comments loop should do it. Actually it doesn't even need the variable definition since it's being echoed and not used later. I only wrote that as an example earlier. You can do this:

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<?php echo get_user_field('s2member_access_label', $comment->user_id); ?>

If you want to distinguish the admin from the rest, you could do something like this (change the 1 for your actual user ID):

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<?php echo ($comment->user_id == 1 ? 'Administrator' : get_user_field('s2member_access_label', $comment->user_id)); ?>

I hope that helps.

[s2pidkaspr]

@christian

This code

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<?php echo ($comment->user_id == 1 ? 'Administrator' : get_user_field('s2member_access_label', $comment->user_id)); ?>

Works better than what you told me to edit some codes and put arrays on. This code is exactly what i'm looking for. Works fine now. Thanks

Now, can you tell me, if how to write and add the code in there if I want another member to be named "Moderator?" and with multiple ID number? Is it possible too?

[peeld]

I don't get how this is working for you - when I put it in either entry.php or comments.php on MY site, it still returns "Platinum Member" for everybody when I'm logged in as me, and when I log in as another user, it shows whatever THEIR member level is for everybody - it's still just returning the current user's status and not the comment poster's stats

Ace, you still here? My offer to pay for this is still out there, haven't heard from you...

[s2pidkaspr]

@christian
you still there?


@peeld
probably it depends on what kind of theme you are using, because my comment section have been customed and its not even on entry.php and comments.php, i'm using different file path for my comments.

[peeld]

Maybe, but I doubt it - It shouldn't matter WHERE you put that code....it does work, in a manner of speaking; it doesn't break my site and it does return a value - it just returns the wrong value (the logged in user's role rather than the original poster's role).

Daisy

[s2pidkaspr]

@peeld

well, have you tried different code approach on this topic? hmmm..may i see your page that has a comment section?

[Cristián Lávaque]

Now, can you tell me, if how to write and add the code in there if I want another member to be named "Moderator?" and with multiple ID number? Is it possible too?

That's why I suggested the array for you, because you have more than one. One (e.g. Administrator) works fine with the condition I wrote for Daisy.

If you know a bit of PHP, you'll figure out how to do it for more than one person. Like I said, you can have an array where keys are the roles and values the labels, and use that.

[Cristián Lávaque]

Maybe, but I doubt it - It shouldn't matter WHERE you put that code....it does work, in a manner of speaking; it doesn't break my site and it does return a value - it just returns the wrong value (the logged in user's role rather than the original poster's role).

Can you post inside code tags the contents of your file with the comments?

[s2pidkaspr]

@christian
i see, but to confirm it, you are saying that's possible correct? if so then, ok...i'll try to figure that out...hey thanks again i really appreciate the help support...