Can I Change the Media Upload Location for each user?

Question

Hello I'm using the latest WP version, WITH WooCommerce.

I have a plugin that allow users, from the product page, to upload images. The images are uploaded as archive zip files.

I need users to have the option to make effects to images from media gallery using plugin such as:

InstaFX

The problem is that all the images uploaded with that plugin are zipped, and being so they are not in the database. So wordpress doesn't have a clue that the images are on the server and who uploaded them.

So I wrote a little PHP script that extracts all files to the media folder.

The problem now is that all users are able to see the media inside that folder.

Is there a way to write a small plugin that use the user name and tells WP that the media folder for that user is located in same folder as user name example:

username: testusr and when testusr going to media library wordpress tell that the folder for that user is inside "uploads/testusr"

So users are able to only see their images.

I know I can change wp-config.php but it's a global setting and I'm looking for a per user setting.

Answer 1

the easy way is using this:

// $filename should be the path to a file in the upload directory.
$filename = '2016/09/1.jpg';

// The ID of the post this attachment is for.
$parent_post_id = 32;

// Check the type of file. We'll use this as the 'post_mime_type'.
$filetype = wp_check_filetype( basename( $filename ), null );

// Get the path to the upload directory.
$wp_upload_dir = wp_upload_dir();

// Prepare an array of post data for the attachment.
$attachment = array(
    'guid'           => $wp_upload_dir['url'] . '/' . basename( $filename ), 
    'post_mime_type' => $filetype['type'],
    'post_title'     => preg_replace( '/\.[^.]+$/', '', basename( $filename ) ),
    'post_content'   => '',
    'post_status'    => 'inherit'
);

// Insert the attachment.
$attach_id = wp_insert_attachment( $attachment, $filename, $parent_post_id );

// Make sure that this file is included, as wp_generate_attachment_metadata() depends on it.
require_once( ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/includes/image.php' );

// Generate the metadata for the attachment, and update the database record.
$attach_data = wp_generate_attachment_metadata( $attach_id, $filename );
wp_update_attachment_metadata( $attach_id, $attach_data );

set_post_thumbnail( $parent_post_id, $attach_id );

using this working good the only problem is no thumbnails other than that work great