eMember – Scheduled member export

[fishvict]

I am looking for suggestions on how to do a daily export of the member data that includes unserialized custom field data. If it weren’t for the custom fields, I could do a cron job that runs a MySQL query. I was looking through the code, and I see the export function, I just don’t know how to call that from a cron job.

Thank you.

[admin]

If you are a developer (it seems like you are) then you can investigate the “export_members_to_csv” function in the “wp_eMember1.php” file which does the export and then write your own function that does something similar and use that from your cron job.

[fishvict]

More of a hacker… I haven’t done any serious development since the 90’s, to be honest. But, thank you for this. It put me on the right track.

And as an FYI, one thing I did notice about the export function is that it only exports the main membership level. If a member has multiple levels, they do not get exported. I added “more_membership_levels” to my hacked script (I didn’t do translation, I’m OK with just the index), but it might be a good idea to consider having this as a field in the main export function for a future update.

Again, thanks for the help!

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