Tagged and Untagged User Content is Appearing

Oh yeah, sorry about not including that.

Perch: 2.8.29, PHP: 5.6.22, MySQL: mysqlnd 5.0.11-dev - 20120503 - $Id: 76b08b24596e12d4553bd41fc93cccd5bac2fe7a $, with PDO
Server OS: Linux, cgi-fcgi
Installed apps: content (2.8.29), assets (2.8.29), categories (2.8.29), perch_shop_orders (1.0.2), perch_shop_products (1.0.2), perch_shop (1.0.2), perch_members (1.4.2)
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PERCH_LOGINPATH: /perch
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PERCH_RESFILEPATH: /home/gregston/public_html/vma/perch/resources
Image manipulation: GD
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Resource folder writeable: Yes
DOCUMENT_ROOT: /home/gregston/public_html/vma
HTTP_HOST: vma.champkiddesign.com
REQUEST_URI: /perch/core/settings/diagnostics/
SCRIPT_NAME: /perch/core/settings/diagnostics/index.php

Hi,

I'm using this method from an PHP include on the dashboard.php. I've also tried it without using an include.

perch_content('Title Here');

Hmmmm.... That's a good question. I've since tried various methods of making this work so my original problem here isn't viewable by the source code anymore. But I know that the adding/removing tags function was working as expected.

I've tried abandoning the HTML and just doing it in PHP like this, but it's still showing content for both tagged and untagged :

if (perch_member_has_tag('guitar-lesson-2')) { // <---- This tag expires 1 week from sign up

        echo null; // <---- I want to show nothing when tagged

    } else { //<---- When tag expires, I want a new lesson to appear. 

     perch_content_create('Lesson 2', array(
                'template' => 'lesson-list.html',
                'multiple' => false,
                'shared' => false,
                    )); 
      perch_content('Lesson 2');

      } 

I hope that makes sense.

Essentially, I'm trying to use the Members Tag backwards. I have a client that wants to drip content weekly relative to the member's sign up date. So I thought I would use the tags with relative expiration dates to essentially hide content until it expires.

If they have a specific tag = echoes no content When the tag expires = echoes content

Perhaps there's an easier way to do this? I just thought this would work.

So I'm still not understanding why tags isn't working just "normally"... It works just fine on my dashboard.php, but when I go to call a tag in a html template, it doesn't work. which seems to be my biggest battle.

Using the example on the Perch website, am I able to use <perch:member> and <perch:content> together? If so, for whatever reason this isn't working for me.

<perch:member has-tag="guitar-lesson-3">
            <p>
            <perch:content type="text" id="text" label="Title"/>
            </p>
        <perch:else:member />
            <p>Please email for more information.</p>
        </perch:member>

Okay, so I'm in an entirely new project and I'm still having problems understanding why my perch HTML template will not compute something like this.

<perch:member has-tag="boardmember">
    <p>Contact Bill for more information (direct line: 01234 5667890)</p>
<perch:else:member />
    <p>Please email for more information.</p>
</perch:member>

Both the tagged and untagged information is appearing. I've done this a million times in other projects with the PHP option -what am I missing for the HTML not to work?

I've created a region from PHP in the following code, and I'm including the <perch:member> tags within the news.html

<?php 
      perch_content_create('News Item', array(
                'template' => 'news.html',
                'multiple' => false,
                'shared' => false,
                    )); 
      perch_content('News Item');
 ?> 

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

That did it! Not sure how I missed this. Thank you so much.