Has anyone used smartMember to intergrate ExpressionEngine with aMember. It looks like very complete solution than the EE plug-in for aMember but from the description, I believe it writes directly to aMember's DB.... which is kind of scary. I back Up every day.... but still. Please I 'm on deadline... please give me a heads-up on this software. Cheers!
Why you don't buy aMember's plugin for EE? It's original plugin from Alex, and works fine. Even if I've stoped working with EE anymore, I used to use it in the past with aMember. Chris
I am using Alex's Plug-in and it works well... but I'm trying to figure out how to pull First Name and Last Name over to EE. (EE doesn't include first & last name fields out-of-the-box..... don't get me started on EE ) I think the smartMember plug-in actually requires Alex's plug-in.
If I understood well you want to transfer to EE Name and Lastname in addition to email, nickname and password. It can be easily done by adding these fields to EE. Unfortunatelly as I'm not using EE right now, I don't know how EE named these fields. If you can give me the fieldname of first and last name, then modification of Alex's plugin is a snap. Just 2 lines of code. Chris
EE 's custom member fields are added to two EE tables, separate from the main table, exp_member. -- Each custom field gets a row in table - exp_member_fields m_field_id | m_field_name | m_field_label 1 | name_first | First Name 2 | name_last | Last Name -- Then each field get a column in table - exp_member_data In my case, these column( fields) in exp_member_data were named: m_field_id_1 m_field_id_2 I got an error when attempting to add these fields (m_field_id_1 )to the ee.inc.php file. It looks like the EE plug-in is only set up to write into the exp_member table. I was hoping that there was an layer of abstraction with EE's membership data functions....