Generating a list of user capabilities?

#1

I was under the impression from this document

That this tag -> [current_user_ccaps]

Is supposed to produce a hyphenated list of custom capabilities, and apparently it does…
however lord knows what the specific language is supposed to be…
because this -> [s2Get constant=“S2MEMBER_CURRENT_USER_CCAPS”]
produces NOTHING.

Mind you I have edited a sample user so that I can see the capabilities that the test user should have and using this tag as written, i see NOTHING.

So my silly but long winded question is how should I form the S2GET statement so that I can show the list of capabilities that a user has ?

Anyone ???

Thanks,

Miles.

#2

@barefootango:

$s2member_access_ccaps = get_user_field('s2member_access_ccaps'); # An array of Custom Capabilities the current User has (i.e. music,videos).

See this KBA: http://s2member.com/kb-article/s2get-shortcode-documentation/

#3

thanks for the clarity, that was exactly what I was looking for. I had the syntax wrong.

now I just need to equate where X and Y is within the page structure.

now if I take that one step further, I should be able to create a simple PHP array to show what resources X matches with Y – where X is a CCAP, and Y is the link that it’s associated with.

It won’t be fully dynamic, but it’s better than hand coding the damned page.

Every time I add a page/resource I’ll have to update the array but once my products are set it shouldn’t be that difficult to do. This is an easy fix. Thanks!

#4

If all you want is a list of links to which a member has access, why don’t you just use attach_s2member_query_filters(); and create your own loop? Then you’d never need to update anything by hand, no matter how many ccaps you create. Of course, you might get rather a long list!

#5

Tim,

Now THAT is an interesting idea that I had not considered.

But you’re right though … it could be kinda big. But considering I’ll only have about 57 page-links to go through, and then to run that against the user’s ccap list. Should be a piece of cake. Thanks.

Miles.