Hi Dani,

That's quite a challenge, and not something I would normally recommend MetaMod to solve. However I guess it's theoretically possible for MetaMod to count the number of uploads that a user has done in the current month, then control whether or not the module for uploading gets displayed for that user.

So you would need to set up the uploader to upload files to folders named with the username, so they can be associated with that person.

Then something like this might work, assuming you want to allow a maximum of 3 uploads in any calendar month (i.e. since midnight at the start of the 1st day of the current month), for any user:

$thismonth = strtotime("first day of 00:00");
if (!$user->guest) {
  $dir = JPATH_SITE . "/path/to/user/folders/here/" . $user->username; // <== edit path here!
  $count = 0;
  if ($handle = opendir($dir)) {
    while (( $file = readdir($handle)) !== false ) {
      if ( $file == '.' || $file == '..' || is_dir($dir.'/'.$file) ) {
        continue;
      }
      if ( filemtime( $dir.'/'.$file ) > $thismonth ) {
        $count++;
      }
    }
    closedir($handle);
  }
  if ($count < 3) return XXX;
  // replace XXX with the module id of the uploader module.
}


Note that the path to the user folders has got to be to the folder that encloses the user folders.

e.g. if you have folders for the easy file uploader set up like this:
/home/mysite/www/userfolders/bob/image1.jpg
/home/mysite/www/userfolders/mary/image1.jpg
/home/mysite/www/userfolders/karen/image1.jpg

then the line in the PHP above should be:
  $dir = JPATH_SITE . "/userfolders/" . $user->username;

I hope that helps (and works!)
Cheers,
Stephen