I have a membership site that drip-feeds content by week. I needed a way for users to see a list of what stuff they had access to and what they didn't (yet). in Amember v3 a subscriber could see incremental links based off of their subscriber date while looking at their user panel. in v4 that functionality isn't handled the same way. So I submitted a feature request, and wished that there was a function for little old me. then I looked at http://www.amember.com/docs/API/Lite, and thought "Holy f***balls, that is SO much better than the session() way that it was handled in v3." Then I looked at Lite.php, noticed that it already had a getExpire() function, and thought "wait, I might be able to write this myself, since I am handsome and awesome." (I can't remember my exact thoughts, but it was probably something along those lines) Anyway, if you want to display a subscriber's starting date (2011-10-12 for instance) or use that date to create a customized display, here's how you do it: Just add the following code to amember/library/Am/Lite.php: PHP: /** @@@ by crogue ** * Retrieve earliest subscription date for selected products * for logged-in user * * @param <type> $search * @return string|null date in SQL format YY-mm-dd */ public function getBegin($search = self::ANY) { $begin = '2037-12-31'; if ($this->hasIdentity()) { $accessRecors = $this->_getAccessRecords($search); print_r ($accessRecors); foreach ($accessRecors as $access) { if ($access['begin_date'] < $begin) { $begin = $access['begin_date']; } } } if ($begin == '2037-12-31') $begin = null; return $begin; } and call it on your page with something like PHP: require_once '/home/user/public_html/amember/library/Am/Lite.php';echo Am_Lite::getInstance()->getBegin($search) ; //$search info at http://www.amember.com/docs/API/Lite Hope this helps someone!