Looking for a 3.8 Gallery

[Tophon]

Hello, I am quite new to VB having come from another forum platform and am currently looking for a gallery for my board.

I haven't really tinkered enough with 3.8 yet but see there are members galleries already on there, but I am after a good public gallery with a mutiple upload or import option (pref a free mod as opposed to photopost)

Any ideas would be grateful!

[TNCclubman]

vB 3.8 already comes with a built in gallery system for every member...

[Tophon]

Sorry I should have added more to my original post.

I am looking for a gallery that can have categories that other members can upload to and be public for viewing categories.

I am on the belief (and I haven't tinkered with it yet so apologise if I'm wrong) that the 3.8 gallery will only be for members. We can create cetegories but will only show as member uploads in profile, etc, is that correct?

[Riccardo83]

There is 2 Gallerys, Coppermine And Menalto Gallery 2. Im running Coppermine at the moment, its fast but it's missing quiete a few features.

Before that I used 4Images Gallery, it was the best system I ever had but I couldnt integrate it with vB anymore.

So the question here is, which has best and constant vB Integration.

What I also dont like about Coppermine is that if you add new Pictures to an existing Album, it doesnt place those pictures in the original Album folder, it puts them somewhere else. WHich makes it hard for downloading all these pictures in a nice folder sorted way.

:-(

Anyone can help here?

[KevinL]

What about photopost, vbgallery, photoplog, photoplog lite, Ultimate Media Gallery LITE? All those integrate into vbulletin.

[Riccardo83]

Ok, which one of these woud u guys recommend ? Best vb Integration?

[KevinL]

hahah I asked the same question the other day.

I have always used vbgallery and have always been happy with it. I'm sure that there are features that one has that the others do not have.

I will be adding a gallery again and I will be using vbgallery. Just because (like I said) I have always been happy with it. It has the features that I have wanted and always used. I have had a license since it was owned by vbadvanced....so this goes back 4 years haha

For the free ones, Photoplog looks really good. Ultimate looks promising also..

[UncoderMom]

I use photoplog. I've had it for years and its never given me an ounce of trouble.

[Riccardo83]

But photoblog isnt free, as u stated KevinL? I guess Photopost is much too price intense.

vB Gallery, where do I get that from? Isnt it discontinued and owned by Photopost?

[UncoderMom]

Photoplog has a lite version. http://www.photoplog.com/demo/lite/index.php

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Pay the 35 bucks man, Photoplog is one of the only sites I have seen on the constant update and there site ALWAYS has great support.

So many premium mods go out the window with support. You wont find that with photoplog. At least I haven't in the 2.9 years I've been using it. :)

[Riccardo83]

I guess it wil be Photoplog.

One question, if u create an album "Animals" and lets say different user/admin upload photos to this album. Will those picture be stored in the same location on the server, e.g. an folder animals? - Coppermine didnt!

That is quiet important for backuping a gallery via FTP...

[UncoderMom]

Im pretty sure that all the images are stored in a the database. I havent checked in awhile, I'd have to research.

Like an uploads/pictures table then the structure contains the category number and user id etc. I could check but its gonna take a minute or two.... LOL

standard across the board user/admin, if I'm not mistaken.

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Nope, I was wrong, they are stored in the file system, all together though. They are not separated by usergroups. It appears that he script uploads them to a photoplog/images/useridnumber

No special image folders for admins... my uploads are located with all the other users. :)

[Riccardo83]

Not sure if u got me right. I know all images are stored in a database. But having the same physcial location on FTP would be an advantage too.

Here again..

I create a album "animals". THen I upload the files via FTP into that folder I created.

But what happens with new Pictures that are being added via Webinterface? Are they stored in any userid folder or into the one I created in the first place?

In the end I would love to have all Animal photos in the same physical location on the server, ftp...

[coffee_bean]

I use photopost and wished I hadn't since day one. It integrates well with vB, but then breaks every time vB is updated.

If there was a decent gallery that integrated with vB and would port all the content from Photopost, I'd be there in no time.

Photopost is rich with features, but the administration is messy and complex, things stop working with the smallest change and it just generally feels delicate, if that's a way to describe it. Unlike vB which is mature, predictable and robust. I now know that there are many better versions of software (even with less features, but at least are reliable) that are free.

If anyone can suggest a real gallery add on (or if vBs one became more social centred, rather than user) I'd be very grateful. I was going to use vBAdvanced for website integration so I would guess that the vBGallery would be excellent, as vBAdvanced was on my trials.

[UncoderMom]

No, the files are stored by user id, not category. I'm running a older version so I'm not sure if a mass add option has been added.

I'd be interested in that though. It is sorta a pain to add one by one.

you could create a user for each category you want. Then they would be all in the same folder. LOL

[Riccardo83]

I cant add 7000 or more photos one by one... No way... I doubt that they dont have a batch add function to import photos via ftp.... I hope, i asked in their forum in pre sale questions...

[ScottW23]

I use photopost and wished I hadn't since day one. It integrates well with vB, but then breaks every time vB is updated.


This is the nature of the beast. vBGallery is so tightly integrated with vBulletin, that every time vBulletin releases a major dot release, we have to update vBGallery to keep up -- and we do, usually within a very short time we make the new version available such that if you decide to upgrade to the new vBulletin version, the new vBGallery compatible version is available. Certainly, nothing breaks at all if you ftp the changed vBGallery files as you run the vBulletin update.

[Xphusion]

photoplog hands down nothing can compare

[gnrx]

A quick question, xD.

I am a recently user VB and I search for install vbgallery in my forum.
I view that contains two versions in some posts, a lite (its free) and a pro.
But I go to web for download a lite version but I don't view for download this version.
After I search and I read about this, VBgallery don't have any free version?

Thanks and regards.

[Ohiosweetheart]

vBPicGallery (http://www.cpurigs.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=32) is an excellent gallery -

[ScottW23]

photoplog hands down nothing can compare

IMO photoplog's UI isn't ideal. It seems to just magnify photos when you click on a thumbnail instead of displaying a photo page with comments. The point of a gallery is to have people interact and post comments, and I know the title of the photo is linked in photoplog but IMO that's odd and there is only the magnification feature shown on random thumbs/newest uploads. That doesn't encourage social interaction.

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vBPicGallery (http://www.cpurigs.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=32) is an excellent gallery -

vBPicGallery does not appear to give you a categorized, central list of photo galleries. Only "newest galleries" and "recent galleries" all of which appear to be personal/member-owned albums rather than central site-wide galleries.

Compare vBPicGallery:
http://www.cpurigs.com/forums/vbpicgallery.php

to PhotoPost vBGallery:
http://gallery.biorust.com/

[Xphusion]

your prob look at the lite versin of photoplog the pro version has more features then u think it does not just zooming capability i have tried every gallery there is for vb even galleries that are stand alones not ment for vb like G2 etc and from what i see there is no better gallery the support is hands down top of the line morgan takes pride in his work as is always there to help and im sure other that use photoplog pro would agree take a look here if you havent

http://www.photoplog.com/demo/index.php

IMO photoplog's UI isn't ideal. It seems to just magnify photos when you click on a thumbnail instead of displaying a photo page with comments. The point of a gallery is to have people interact and post comments, and I know the title of the photo is linked in photoplog but IMO that's odd and there is only the magnification feature shown on random thumbs/newest uploads. That doesn't encourage social interaction.

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vBPicGallery does not appear to give you a categorized, central list of photo galleries. Only "newest galleries" and "recent galleries" all of which appear to be personal/member-owned albums rather than central site-wide galleries.

Compare vBPicGallery:
http://www.cpurigs.com/forums/vbpicgallery.php

to PhotoPost vBGallery:
http://gallery.biorust.com/

[ScottW23]

your prob look at the lite versin of photoplog the pro version has more features then u think it does not just zooming capability

http://www.photoplog.com/demo/index.php

Maybe, but all of the thumbnail images in the photoplog gallery above are just magnified rather than linked to a photo sub page like PhotoPost vBGallery does.