On 12/3/06, Khalid B <kb@2bits.com> wrote:
On 12/3/06, Darren Oh <darrenoh@sidepotsinternational.com> wrote:
On Dec 3, 2006, at 12:08 AM, Drupal Designs wrote:
I am looking to see if there is any way one can have disk usage limit set per user? Basically wanted to know what is the best way to implement payment levels (monthly membership) based on disk usage needs for a user?
Is there anything available? If not, what is the best way to do it?
If you're looking for a way control the amount of space users can use for uploaded files, the best way I can think of is to create a custom access control module. Users would determine their levels of access by subscribing in your E-Commerce store. The access control module would check to see whether the user's subscription is current and whether the user has space left before allowing a file to be uploaded. You could also create a settings page to configure whether files from expired subscriptions should be deleted by a cron task after a period of time.
As far as I know, no one is working on such a module. I estimate that it would take about a week to develop and test.
Look into the upload module code. It has a way to limit total size of files per role (if you have roles defined).
You can use a similar scheme, but on a per user basis.
Or, you can make users pay for getting a role, and determine the quote based on that role. Several Paypal modules grant the user a role on payment, and ecommerce has some development towards that too (may be done already).