adding fields to the comments in WordPress

[SLEE]

I want to be able to add more fields to the comment form including a date field and a multiple image upload field.

I have found a few links showing how it might be possible to add more text fields but how would i allow uploading of multiple photos?

When using this contact form the user will be logged in. Ideally I would like to upload the image and have it resized as using WordPress uploader but is this possible as it is on the front end?

i do use Gravity Forms but as far as I am aware currently it is not possible to use this with comments?

any help will be greatly appreciated

[sarahA]

To add the fields use the filter 'comment_form_after_fields'

For authentication/validation of the entries use the action 'pre_comment_on_post'

To save the date and associate the images uploaded with the comment use the action comment_post which will give you the comment ID. If the user is logged in then you can also get their ID via $user_ID (probably need to make it global).

You should possibly be able to load the WP uploader into the frontend, I see no reason why not, you're just calling the right function to do so. You can at least call the WP functions to validate and resize the image. You'll need to look through the source code to find the right function names to use though.

This might help with getting the media uploader working - http://lewayotte.com/2010/09/27/using-wordpress-built-in-media-upload/