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Hello,
My client is a photographer for schools and family portraits.

I’d like to offer the ability for his customers to log-in and see the photos he’s taken of them. Obviously this needs to be restricted to the particular customer so nobody else can see their photos.

I have a plan to use Matrix for the gallery “front-end” so a way of replicating this to individual members would be ace.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Martin

Hi Martin.

With the Solspace User add-on you can assign multiple authors to an entry. After that it is as simple as:

{exp:channel:entries channel='photos' author_id='{logged_in_member_id}'}

Though the User add-on does cost a few buck, it’s worth its weight in gold when dealing with members on a site. (does software even have weight?)

Wouter

Thanks Wouter,
Ill take a look at that.

May need to adjust the quote :(

Martin

Thanks Wouter,
Ill take a look at that.

May need to adjust the quote :(

Martin

Features cost money, it’s as plain as that, and if he can’t afford another $100 USD, then maybe he should consider a different line of work as it clearly isn’t paying enough. 😊

Hi Martin , with Zoo Visitor you can just attach a channel images fieldtype or upload the photo’s in file fields inside a member profile, should make it easier for you client to manage too http://ee-zoo.com/add-ons/visitor/

Are multiple authors really needed?
1 customer = 1 author done, no plugins needed.

Hi lebisol,
Can you elaborate?

Cheers

Martin

If you are using matrix to build a gallery then we are still looking into just one entry with multiple images.
All you have to do to ‘give access’ is choose the client/member as the author of the entry and then present it to them eg.:

{exp:channel:entries channel="photos" author_id="CURRENT_USER"}
{title}
 {field1}
 {field2}
 ...
{/exp:channel:entries}

http://devot-ee.com/add-ons/ac-member-list or http://devot-ee.com/add-ons/member-list-custom-field would let you associate a client (with an account) with a custom field. Then check if the current_user = that field.

Hi lebisol,
Thanks for the advice. I just got round to trying your solution and it works!

Another question for the community…
Is there a way to show a list of entries by author?  When a user is logged in they see a list of their own entries?

Thanks

Martin

Yes…the snip above is exactly that.