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Hi!
I’ve already purchased FV Player Pro and love it so far. My site uses the ARMember plugin (https://www.armemberplugin.com) to manage memberships, and I’d love to offer ad-free tiers for certain plans. On the plugin page for “FV Player No Ads For Members”, I don’t see ARMember listed among the other membership options. So I’m wondering if this is something that’s possible, or relatively easy to rig up?
Thank you for your time!
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Hello Jake,
Yes, as we mention in description of FV Player No Ads For Members if your membership plugin is not on our list we are happy to add support for it once you make the purchase.
I looked at https://www.armemberplugin.com/ and one problem is that they only list the action hooks for developers but do not provide a documentation on how to:
- get a list of membership levels
- how to check if user has access to any given membership level.
If you could ask the ARMember support about these issues that would be great. We could ask as well, but we do not have their license.
Based on their answer we would be sure if we can support ARMember or not.
Thanks,
Martin
Thank you Martin!
I opened a ticket with ARMember support asking about those two items, and this is their response:
ARMember does provide an API Services which you can use to get Membership Plans/Levels list, members’ current membership plan details. You can enable API services module from ARMember -> Addons page. After that, you can enable services from the ARMember -> General Settings -> API Services page. For more information, please refer ARMember documentation: https://www.armemberplugin.com/documents/api-service-feature/
Does this API information meet the two requirements you mentioned? Let me know if I should follow up with them for anything else. I really appreciate your assistance!
Thanks,
Jake
Hello Jake,
We could work with that, however could you please tell the ARMember support that you only need to integrate their plugin with FV Player running on the same website?
What they sent is documentation for an API for external use. It would mean that FV Player would run these HTTP calls only to reach the the same website as it runs on. That creates a lot of unnecessary delay when displaying the pages. Your membership content page load times would easy increase by 0.5 or even 1.5 seconds.
FV Player should be able to use their PHP functions or classes to check the membership status which would be a lot faster and simpler – no additional API keys would be involved.
Thanks,
Martin
Hi Martin,
Thank you for explaining the specifics of the situation to me, I appreciate it! After another round with ARMember, I received this response:
To get the current subscriptions plans from the PHP, you can use from get_member_current_subscription_plans function from the armember/core/classes/class.arm_subscription_plans.php file function according to your requirements.
Is this closer to what you were looking for initially? Thanks again for all your help!!
Best,
Jake
Hello Jake,
I looked at the function in their source code. I was not able to find
get_member_current_subscription_plans(), but I foundarm_get_member_status().That looks good, but it return a numerical value for the membership status. Seems like “1” would mean that the membership is active.
I also see we could use
ARM_subscription_plans_Lite::arm_get_all_subscription_plans()to get a list of membership plans. How many membership plans do you use?Thanks,
Martin
Hi Martin,
Thank you for looking so deeply into this! At the moment I’m only trying to set up 1 membership plan, although I plan on adding one or two more by the end of the year. However, I’d want to disable ads for all of these paid memberships, regardless of the other differences between the plans. So if FV Player can disable ads when a user is subscribed to ANY armember plan, and play ads for all other registered/unregistered users, that would be perfect in my case!
Hello Jake,
Finally FV Player No Ads For Members supports ARMember. It works with its different membership plans too.
Thanks,
Martin
Hi Martin,
That is great news! I’ll be purchasing the add-on soon, thank you for following up and for all your help on this!
Best,
Jake
