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 I'm trying to use the membership API to check whether a contact is a current lifetime member.

By this, I mean with a status of current OR new.

function isLifetimeMember( )
{


try{

$result = civicrm_api3('Membership', 'get', array(
  'sequential' => 1,
  'membership_type_id' => 2,
  'contact_id' => [civicrm-participant:contact-id],
  'status_id' => 2,
));


}
catch (CiviCRM_API3_Exception $e) {
  // handle error here
  $errorMessage = $e->getMessage();
  $errorCode = $e->getErrorCode();
  $errorData = $e->getExtraParams();

error_log('error = ' . $errorMessage);
error_log('error_code = ' . $errorCode);
error_log('error_data = ' . $errorData);
}

    if ( civicrm_error ( $result )) {
        error_log( $result['error_message']);
        return false;
    } else {

        if ($result['count'] == 0) {
            error_log( 'No lifetime membership found for contact ' . [civicrm-participant:contact-id] );
            return false;
        } else {
            error_log( 'Lifetime membership found for contact ' . [civicrm-participant:contact-id] );
            return true;
        }
    }
}
Forgetting any other ugliness in my code for the moment ... how do I check for the contact having either of two statuses here? Would be simple enough in SQL, but I'm not sure how to do it in the API.

Thank you JonGold - that put me on the right track

(The result is nested arrays, BTW, if anyone else needs to do this.)