[EDIT by kbahey to add more info.]

Need a way to allow users to create nodes only when they have points.

In effect, this can be used to create a pay-to-publish site where users pay real money to get a certain number of points, then use those points for creating nodes.

What is needed is a mechanism to forbid node creation if the number of points is less than what is needed.

Perhaps using hook_form_alter() and checking the $form_id argument ($node->type .'_node_form') is the way to do this?

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marcoBauli’s picture

marcoBauli commented

anybody knows if this works in version 2.0 (4.7, 5.0)? i'm actually looking for the same thing. Does Action.module help someway? thanks

jredding’s picture

jredding commented
Component: Code » Code: userpoints_basic
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)
lameei’s picture

lameei commented

+1 here

MJH’s picture

MJH commented

I am also interested in that functionality to let users pay for nodes they create:
they can buy points through ubercart and for each node they create, 1 point is removed. That works so far.

But of course, they should not be able to post nodes if they have 0 points or less ;)

So any chance to see this in User Points?

kbahey’s picture

kbahey commented

This issue is set to wont fix because it will never be a feature of the Userpoints API.

There is already an ubercart store credit module, which allows you to use points as a currency to pay for things in the store.

Combine that with http://www.ubercart.org/forum/bounties/7878/pay_node_ubercart and you get what you want.

Other modules that can be used as a basis are http://drupal.org/project/pay2publish and http://drupal.org/project/paypernode

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BillyMG commented

This would be solved in another module, namely this one: http://drupal.org/project/userpoints_node_action. This module allows you to make rules for users to pay for node actions like publishing. I think this should match what you need, and doesn't need to be part of the built-in Userpoints API.