I am making use of the “Affiliates is Referred” plugin recommended in /useful-plugins/. The reason I am using it is to create a landing page for the visitor to see customized information about the affiliate who referred them. One of the elements I want to show on the page is a profile picture of the affiliate. I have added images to the affiliate profile, but I am having issues getting the actual user id.
Using the short code [referrer_user display=”referrer_id”] produces the login name. Using the short code [referrer_id] produces their token for the URL.
Is there a short code for the actual ID as found in the wp_users table?
Better yet, is there someone already using a customized landing page for visitors showing their referring affiliate’s information?
Hi,
I would recommend to get the user ID of the referring affiliate directly through the API, this makes it easier to work with:
require_once( 'class-affiliates-service.php' ); $affiliate_id = Affiliates_Service::get_referrer_id(); if ( $affiliate_id ) { $user_id = affiliates_get_affiliate_user( $affiliate_id ); // @todo do stuff ... }With that, you first check if the visitor has been referred, obtaining the affiliate ID and then get the user ID for the affiliate.
I hope that helps, let me know if you need further help please.
Hi Kento,
Thank you. This worked for me. What I ended up doing was adding it to the class for the “Affiliates is Referred” plugin and adding a short code for it.
For anyone else looking for the same solution, install the affiliates-is-referred plugin from the github repository. In the init function at the top, add this line:
add_shortcode( ‘affiliates_is_referred_id’, array( __CLASS__, ‘is_referred_id_func’ ) );
Then inside the class add this function:
public static function is_referred_id_func(){
require_once AFFILIATES_CORE_LIB . ‘/class-affiliates-service.php’;
if ( $referrer_id = Affiliates_Service::get_referrer_id() ) {
if ( $referrer_id ) {
$user_id = affiliates_get_affiliate_user( $referrer_id );
return $user_id;
} else {
return false;
}
} else {
return false;
}
}
Thanks for your help!!
Thanks Sean,
you also have available Affiliates-Popup file in github.
cheers