Api notification to trigger php script help

#1

I’m using s2 member free at moment but will probably upgrade. My wordpress knowledge and php is poor but s2member seemed ideal choice to get my new project going.

I have set up site and s2member but want the registration process to create a new account with another company i am a reseller for.

So i have the php script to send these details through, where in my site do i load this php script
resources say www.example.com/myscript.

so i create a script (helloworld.php)
create a directory in wp-content called dmg

The wordpress website hosted on 1and1 and with filezilla it says path is;

sftp://u87xxx2188@home657xxxx11.1and1-data.host/app661419630/wp-content/dmg/helloworld.php

which doesn’t make a lot of sense to me.

Am i uploading the file to the wrong place?

the above is simplified as i know i need the path of my site to the php script and passing on of username etc into the script . but i’m obviously missing something here on where to place the php file and what the path would be.

appreciate help

thanks in advance

dunc

#2

Duncan, could you make it a bit clearer what you are trying to do? Forget the script for a moment; just explain what you’re trying to achieve.

#3

hi, i’ll try
i have website with s2member on and working.

i have a reseller business with a company where i can create accounts for my clients, and i am trying to automate the process through s2member. I want to set this up so, once the customer subscribes to my website using s2member, i can trigger the php file to create the client an account with my reseller.

On watching this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg9nuPwa9_0 it appears that i can achieve this with s2member api for registration.

I have the code from the reseller in a php file that needs to run after customer registers there subscription,

so the question is where should i put this php file from livedrive in my wordpress website and how can i trigger it.

i hope that has made it more clear.

many thanks for your help on this :slight_smile:

#4

Duncan, I believe that you should be able to put that PHP file wherever you want. Then you put its URL into the Signup Notification box at API/Notifications

#5

hi

its the url i’m having a problem with;
if i upload the php file with filezilla

you will see that lowerdown is the php file index.php if i get the url for that by right clicking on the file and clicking properties i get the url sftp://uxxx02188@home6xxx7911.1and1-data.host/app661419630/index.php

i have xxx a few numbers out for security.

so the url is nothing like www.example.com/index.php i would expect.
hence me asking if i should be loading the file in a specific place, eg in the root folder of ./
or in the folder wp-asmin or wp-content in order to set the url as www.example.com/xxx.php with xxx being the file name.

It says on the video i need the full url but is this only the case if the file is stored on a separate website, i’m really confused on this

any help appreciated

#6

You are getting the URL for accessing by SFTP. But you need the URL for accessing via http.

In your case, it looks like this will end with /app661419630/index.php so I’m guessing it will be something like www.example.com/app661419630/index.php

#7

hi

i’ll have a play about and see how i get on, thanks for the pointers

#8

hi,
this may help others as well, i could achieve a lot of what i was doing because my wordpress site was “managed” by 1and1 hosting which was advised for autoupdating/better security etc. because of this, various “writes/permissions were denied”.
This was discovered after a long phone call to 1and1 hosting and being talked through switching to a standard host package.

so the answers to the issues i had (with research and brain strain) are
php file to go inside the mu plugins folder
the website url is www.mysite.com followed by ? and then a (action) name to trigger the php file.
then followed by the extraction/parsing suchas firstname=%%firstname%%

better details are here as the video is lacking in detail

thanks for your help though

#9

Thanks for the full explanation!

Also nice to hear something good about 1and1 for a change. I would always recommend a good managed WP host instead.