Joomla provides a very efficient functionality for users to submit content. 'Author' level users can edit their articles text and insert images or some other types of media.

But what if your site has a lot of articles and authors? Then it´s not unusual to find a huge number of image files and directories, what makes file management difficult for the less experienced. Besides, you probably just don´t want your users to be able to embed, or even list, other authors´ files.

UserImages is a very simple (for now) Joomla extension whose purpose is to fix that potential problem. If you install the component and plugin, your users will not further be able to see any other media files apart from their own ones.

Userimages extension is a system plugin. It only works for Joomla! 1.5+.

 How to use:

1. Download 'Userimages' plugin file from download section
2. Install and enable it in your site

How it works:

When an user press 'submit article" she/he obtains article submission form. After installing extension, if pressed "image" button the result is:

- if user is 'Super Administrator' she obtains 'images/stories' listing (or whichever 'image_path' directory has been configured)

- if Author level user is not an administrator, and supposed, for example, her user id is '127', she obtains 'images/stories/users/127' listing. Supposed "Base directory' for 'userimages' extension is 'users'. You can change that). If directory doesn´t exist it is created. So authors can only list and embed images from their own directory.