Hi Elm,

Thanks for the kind words! Glad you like PS.

Here's some thoughts on your questions:
1) There isn't anything built into PhotoSmash that allows limiting characters, but you could build your form fields in a Custom Layout and set the maxlength value in the form like:

<input type='text' maxlength=15 name='my_field' />

You will just need to figure out what name/id photosmash would assign to your fields.

I'd really recommend against changing the code because of future updates. Anytime you update, you'll lose all your customizations, but if you use the custom forms and custom layouts, you don't lose those unless you delete them yourself.

2) Since PhotoSmash doesn't limit the # of photos a user can upload, you can do a couple of things without changing the photosmash code.
a) You could always just reject any additional images a user might upload in moderation, but depending on volume, that might be hard. If it's a couple hundred users, you could preview their author page to see how many images they've got uploaded...like: http://smashly.net/blog/author/byron/

b) If you want to do some coding, you could create a little plugin that would hook into the 'bwbps_add_photo_link' filter and do a database query like:

add_filter('bwbps_add_photo_link', 'limitUserUploads');

function limitUserUploads( $photo_link ){
$result = $wpdb->get_row("SELECT user_id from " . PSIMAGESTABLE . " WHERE user_id = " . (int)$current_user->ID . " AND gallery_id= " . (int)$yourGalleryID );

if( $result ){
  $photo_link = "";
} 

return $photo_link;
}

You would just need to provide it with the Gallery ID you are dealing with at the moment.

Hope that helps,
Byron

Hi elm,

Make sure you have this in your code:

global $wpdb;

Hopefully that does it. If not, here's the documentation on how to use $wpdb class:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wpdb_Class
Cheers,
Byron

Hi Elm,

Ooops, missing:

global $current_user;

Hopefully that fixes that...I'll add a fixed version below.

So, if you're going to have multiple galleries where they can only upload a single image, the next thing you need to do is extract the gallery ID from the $photo_link variable that gets passed to your function.

Right now, that function will only affect the gallery that you supply in the SQL statement, so they will still be able to upload to other galleries, but as much as they want. So, the function below fixes it so that they can only upload a single image to all galleries (1 per gallery). I haven't tried it, so let me know if it doesn't work:

add_filter('bwbps_add_photo_link', 'limitUserUploads');

function limitUserUploads( $photo_link ){
global $wpdb;
global $current_user;

// Let's try to get the gallery ID from the upload link...
// I'm sure you could do it easier with preg_match, but I'd have to Google the next 30 minutes to figure it out
$temp = strstr( $photo_link, 'bwbpsFormSpace_' );
$pos = strpos(  $temp, '"' );

if( $pos > 0 ){
$pos++;
$gallery_id = substr( $temp, 0, $pos );

$result = $wpdb->get_row("SELECT user_id from " . PSIMAGESTABLE . " WHERE user_id = " . (int)$current_user->ID . " AND gallery_id= " . (int)$gallery_id );
}

if( $result ){
  $photo_link = "";
} 

return $photo_link;
}

Hi Elm,

Ok...I tested this one, so it should actually work (if you're using the standard Pop-up form) ;-)

Try this:

add_filter('bwbps_add_photo_link', 'limitUserUploads');

function limitUserUploads( $photo_link ){
global $wpdb;
global $current_user;

// Let's try to get the gallery ID from the upload link...
// I'm sure you could do it easier with preg_match, but I'd have to Google the next 30 minutes to figure it out
$temp = strstr( $photo_link, 'bwbpsShowPhotoUpload(' );
$temp = str_replace("bwbpsShowPhotoUpload(","",$temp);
$pos = strpos(  $temp, ',' );

if( $pos > 0 ){

$gallery_id = substr( $temp, 0, $pos );

$result = $wpdb->get_row("SELECT user_id from " . PSIMAGESTABLE . " WHERE user_id = " . (int)$current_user->ID . " AND gallery_id= " . (int)$gallery_id );
}

if( $result ){
  $photo_link = "";
} 

return $photo_link;
}

Hope that works!
Byron

Excellent! You're welcome.

BB