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I have read in several places that you are considering developing an API to allow access to member data, either on WA pages or from external pages.

Let me explain what I need. We run a membership site for affiliates and part of the data they enter when joining is there affiliate ID and affiliate link. We would like to create pages which use this data to display links on the page. We would also like to create external pages (php) which could connect to the database and extract member name and link given their ID.

From what I have seen from other questions and your replies - neither of these is possible at the moment. Are you intending to add this functionality soon or is there any way to access the database other than exporting the entire db manually.

Thanks in advance.

Bill Meadowcroft
www.e-lottoteam.com

Hello Bill,

You are correct, there is currently no way to do this kind of querying. And API is some time away because we have not been able to quite define the exact needs yet. See http://www.wildapricot.com/forums/thread/6821.aspx

The only workaround I could think of is this:

Use our internal automatically generated memberid as the affiliateid.

Create a publicly accessible member directory and sure they are all opted in.

(It can be hidden from the menu by making it a child of a hidden page). 

Then the member profile page cane be accessed via a direct URL like <your site><directory page>&mdd=<affiliateID>.

Example of a member page from one of our clients: http://www.aimscanada.com/Default.aspx?pageId=6539&tab=1&mdd=107335

Now your PHP code can parse the page to get the link and member name.

 

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Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot