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Trying to figure out how to make an entry form for user which he/she can only submit once. This could go to a channel. But the idea is to only enable the user to submit that data once.

I’ll roughly describe what I need.

Imagine there is some gameplay that all users can be part of. It’s based on predicting a certain outcome. Lets say for each game a user can submit 5 numbers. There will be multiple games each day but then can only enter each one once.

I am trying to figure out a way to do this most efficiently. Any suggestion will be welcome.

If a user submits an entry, the entry will be stored related to a particular game I suppose.
So now if we query on game_id and member_id, we get either records, or no records.

If you check that before allowing the member to submit the form, you could check if he already has a record, if so you don’t allow him to do this again.

Cheers,
Mike

Another idea that may work is to use the default channel entries loop. If you have each game set to a channel and a member can only see the form if he has no entry in the channel.

{exp:channel:entries
    channel="game_name"
    author_id="CURRENT_USER"
}
    {if no_results}
        -- FORM HERE --
    {/if}
    
{/exp:channel:entries}

Hi VIM,

That’s exactly what I meant, thanks for the code example!

Mike

Brilliant! Thank you guys!

No problem! Any time.

Welcome!