Restricting who can upload videos

Hi Ronny,

There is the following hook you can use:

$allowedRoles = apply_filters("wpdiscuz_mu_allowed_roles", $this->getDefaultRoles());

Here the $this->getDefaultRoles() is an array of the user roles. E.g. ['administrator', 'editor', ....].

Hi Astghik,

I think wpdiscuz_mu_allowed_roles will not do what I need - it seems to be apply to all uploads whereas I want to restrict only a certain type of uploads.

Your response did help me discover what seems to be filetype filtering on the upload input:

$allowedExts = apply_filters("wpdiscuz_mu_allowed_extensions", "accept='image/*'");

The media uploader plugin currently does this:

add_filter("wpdiscuz_mu_allowed_extensions", function() {
            return "";
        });

This should allow me do what I want I think.

So thanks I think. :-). I'll update the post once I've had a go at it.

Ronny

To follow up on this now I have it working, I used these two filter hooks:

add_filter( 'wpdiscuz_mu_allowed_extensions', 'ainet_allowed_upload_extensions', 15, 1 );

add_filter( 'wpdiscuz_mu_mime_types', 'ainet_allowed_upload_mimetypes', 15, 1 );

Both used priority 15 so they came after the media uploader hooks.

The first hook allows us to set the HTML accept attribute which gives the browser an indication of which file types will be accepted. The second allows the AJAX hook on the server to reject mime types we don't want.