How to limit number of "Promoted to Front Page" option for each user/role

Question

I want to limit the option "Promoted to Front Page" per role. For example, a user with role "promoter" should only be able to promote 5 nodes a day to promote to front page. And same with sticky option.

I am using 'rules_link' module as well.

Any help.

Answer 1

You can achieve above by writing a small custom module in Drupal... Steps are outlined below to achieve the same.

• Create install file and define schema hook with table name as user_promote_counter with below fields
• uid, timestamp, nid
• Using hook_node_presave($node) update above table with a record of uid, timestamp, nid of the node updated whenever promote is set to true so that you can track only promoted to front page actions.
• Use hook_node_validate($node, $form, &$form_state) in your custom module to verify current user who has promoter role exceeded the limit of 5 by querying above table using timestamp and uid columns. Raise an error if limit is exceeded. That will prevent user to promote more than 5 nodes per day.