opinions on restricting photos to certain membersh

Hi guys - DO you think is possible to somehow restrict photos and videos from certain membership level to be viewable only to members of same membership group ? I have adult membership level on site and want oonly members of same membership level to be able view their photos and videos - but photos and videos of members from other membership groups can be viewable by all membership level members.. WHat u think is it even possible ? I was thinking about clone photo and video module si I will have PHOTOS , VIDEOS swections as dolphin normally have  plus ADULT PHOTOS AND ADULT VIDEOS  where both modules will be cloned and installed as separated modules with permissions only for defined membership level maybe that will be easier way than cutom programming of current photzo and video modules to have that functionality ?   all opinions welcome..

I would look at membership levels.  Membership levels can already restrict viewing of photos; you can have it where all members can upload photos but only a certain level can view them  I assume of course that one can view one's own photos, just not other members when viewing is restricted by membership level.

I would think it would be easier to try and edit membership levels to do what you wish than working with the photo and video modules.

yeah probably some custom work on membership mod will be easier way. What I need achieve is followig: For example I will have Dating membership which will cost 10 USD and adult dating membership whcih cost 30 USD what I need members od dating membership can view photos of members of same membership level ( dating membership level) but will be NOT able to see photos and videos of people from adult membership level. People from adult membership level can see photos and videos of of people either from adult membership level as well as from people from dating membership level. Maybe somebody already made this as custom work ? If yes I would buy that custom modification ...

You probably will need to go to the photo module and look at the code there.  I have not played with this yet so don't have any ideal of how viewing restriction is encoded.  My guess is that it checks membership level and allowed actions and if allowed then shows the photo and if not then the "access denied" message.  What you want to do will mean you will need to check the author ID and get the membership level of the author as well so you can check to see if the author belongs to the adult membership level.  We need to map out the flow.  In membership levels, both membership have "view photos" enabled.  We need to check the author id adult member true/false.  There is no way to mark a photo by membership level; however, we can add code to see if the author ID belongs to adult membership.  Adult membership can see everything, so we don't need to check for adult membership; just show the photo.  If non-adult and photo is "adult", then block viewing; else, show photo.

Maybe some of the coders will step in here and work with this.

Let's see if we can figure this out, shouldn't be that difficult to do this check.  We can start with photos and then work on videos.  This might be useful to others as well.

yeah I think this can be really good if somebody look into it -  seen already similar questions in forum about similar thing but seems nobody yet developed any modification which can do that. I want to do that on my site as for normal people who want dating can be annoying to see some nude photos and videos of adult dating members and I dont want to make two separate sites one for dating and one for adult & swingers dating also is good site owner can make some money if adult dating membership will cost more :-) I thought membership splitter from Anton LV can do that but unfortunately not :-(

I think we can do this without creating a market mod.  I really think that Dolphin needs more community giving but it may be that since Dolphin is not really open source; it is open code, that many may not feel like giving.  There are those that give of their time and knowledge, even giving free code, but it is limited.  Since I have been on the forum, I have learned of the members that give and could probably list them out quite easily.

Now, I might could hack this in, but it won't be quick.  I have a lot going on and can only spend short blocks of time on it.  How important is having this done; how quickly do you need this done?

great there are still members who actually do something for free without vision of money at first place so I very appretiate your attitude geek girl. Its not in  any rush so it dont have to be done quickly - Am waiting for 7.1.2 anyway for a site run .