If I may ... I'm running vBa CMPS as well and hope to display my new sphere ( ;) ) in a module on the front page. Tried to set it up last night, but just don't have the know-how for the work-around you note. In my case, the answer to your question above is yes, my CMPS is installed in the root.

Couple thoughts for consideration:

1) Ideally, once its displayed in a front page module, I'd be able to reduce it in size (so it doesn't bust the page), and when users "activated" it by either mousing over or clicking on it, it would expand to full size, then reduce again either after a default time setting or when the user actively ends his session somehow. Sorry, I know that's not well stated; it's early morning here and the coffee hasn't kicked in yet.

2) Also--and this may be more doable short-term--I would really like to be able to make some of the images (either the thumbnail or full sized) be hotlinks to other parts of the site ... kind of a 3D site index. Hope to have a go at that later today.

At any rate, thanks again for a great mod. Installed and working fine. :)

thank you very much for this mod !

keep up the good work !! ;)

Thanks excellent work apprciated :up:

This is gorgeous!! I am so getting this once its fully intergrated for my members pics, it will be an amazing addon to my forum.

Great work Syrus and hope you get well soon after the surgery xxx

1. At the moment the flash file has a fixed size with respect to the dimensions, hence 900 pixels wide, which was intended initially as a standalone on just a single vBulletin page. This is how it was designed, and not really to be used in vBa CMPS. For it to work in this script it requires some recoding of javascript attributes and using a different embed method so it will use the vBulletin templating system as opposed to pure PHP coding. From what I can remember with vBa CMPS it is quite straight forward, but I would need to code a vBa CMPS module for it, along with some additional coding in another template. It could be setup within a collapsible module, if thats what you are referring to? The overall size I will change in the update, and users can set the globe radius as they see fit for their own websites (this attribute is documented in the user guide under Advanced XML Configuration).

2. Making the images hotlink to other urls is quite easy, but not implemented in this version. I will look at this in an update, all it would involve additional url and target attributes in the XML file on the images you want hyperlinked, and the ones you dont want associated with an hyperlink you would just enter no url or target.

Glad you got it all working in the end! :)

Great mod syrus............this could potentially be used for anything for example each image a page in a magazine which redirects to a page you make with content etc in other words a revolving magazine for your forum.

Im looking into the module layout design now for vbadvanced

Thanks as always for the prompt, detailed reply. I know you're a busy man these days, and about to be indisposed for a time, so I'll just enjoy the mod as is for a bit. By your leave, though, I'd like to contact you in a few weeks regarding the specific customizations and perhaps to discuss another related matter. No need to reply again now, you can indicate yay or nay then.

Meanwhile, congratulations on this sure-to-be Mod o' the Month. :)

Thanks.. Yes it could be easily used for that purpose, I'll look into coding the AS for hyperlinking via the current XML file. For obvious reasons all links would need to be absolute - dependng on where users have installed their vBa CMPS.

I don't actually use vBa CMPS myself, but I used to a year or so ago, so I'm familiar with module layout coding. But actually getting this globe to work is another matter since it requires some coding in the headinclude, unless it can be coded another way - it took me awhile to get the current embed code working in PHP. I originally had it running under a simple HTML page, but it failed under PHP, so it had to be coded slightly different.

Dude this is totally awsome !!!

I'm gonna wait for your upgrade but my vote goes for those two options to be on it.

Keep Rock'n

i can't wait!

thanks!

using this for now :)

wonder if you could help in a little problem we have, weve installed it and checked and every thing is fine and working as it should, so we then went on to edit the images and thumbnails,
edited them all to the correct names IE: 1.jpeg, 2.jpeg ect,ect and the sizes you explained in the guide

images: = 500x375
thumb: = 100x80

also edited the tooltip and description.

the problem we have is that the images and thumbnails show up fine but the tooltip and descriptions we edited are still showing up as default.

any ideas please ?

Most browsers actually cache flash objects. I would suggest clearing temporary internet files in your browsers cache, this is normally the problem.

Try this first, if this doesn't work then get back to me.

:)

I apologise for the demo currently being offline. My sites are experiencing latency and packet loss which is causing my server to appear offline.

tryed that thanks but its still the same.

any more suggestions plz.

Hi mark,

PM me your site url and I'll take a look for you.

thanks .. my only complaint is that it's not very simple to add / change images

This will change with dynamic population, either via vBulletin 3.7 user Albums or another 'bridging' script - which will be coding hopefully soon.

:)

looks great - looking forward to the photoplog bridge

DEMONSTRATION UPDATED - Public release due by 19/07/08

Only the flash gallery file has been changed so far...
I've just updated the demonstration to V2 with the following:

Added:
10 More Attributes - these are not all shown in the demo.
Background Image Import - iGallery now supports importing a full size background image - allowing you to customize it totally for your own sites content/color scheme.
Hyperlink Images - Any image can be hyperlinked easily to any link (internal or external).

ToDo List:
The following will be done before this iGallery version is released.
Layout design changed slightly for vBa CMPS installation.
vBa CMPS Module Block added. (Demo will be made available showing the differences)
Logo idea dropped due to this can now be done using a background image as per the latest demo.

Once the aformenioned has been completed then the vBulletin integration for vBulletin 3.7 user Album system will be added. This will then become a product XML import, and require no images to be uploaded apart from your own background image. All images, thumbs and full sizes will be pulled from vBulletin, all attributes will be made available and set via the AdminCP. A plugin system will allow for further expansion to use other scripts, these will be released once the vBulletin integration is out of beta testing.

:cool::up:

Glad to see your back at work on this fantastic add on! looking forward to see the intergration within the forum. :up:

Stay well

Cmedic101

Yeah, the updated flash file will be released tomorrow that allows for custom background import, etc. The vbulletin integration will be a bit longer since I will be coding that when I return home from hospital.

The v2 igallery flash file will be released as an addon, and can be used if anyone wants to customize the igallery to their own styles. :)

Will this hack be updated soon?

What is the max amount of pics this can store?

Good question...I'm guessing quite a few as when the photo number is small, the sphere is filled out with multiples of the same thumbs.

Pretty impressive. I'll watch this closely

Awesome addition thanks much.

UPDATE 31/07/08


I'm hoping to release the vBulletin 3.7 Album Bridge this weekend, if all goes well in testing. This update will allow the following:

• Background Image Import in main SWF file. Allowing you to customize the gallery easily to your own sites color scheme.
• All images will be pulled from the vbulletin database, regardless if they are stored in MySQL or your file system. For best results Albums should be stored in your file system to prevent 'bloating' the database, and queries required.
• Full dynamically updating via vBulletin 3.7 User Albums.
• vB iGallery will show the last uploaded images over all user albums. (Number of images to show has not yet been set - but this can easily be adjusted).
• No AdminCP control as of yet.

There will be a smaller gallery available soon after, this will suit the vBadvanced CMPS and a center block module import.

Once, I've fully recovered from my recent surgery I will update this modification much further. For the time being I'm taking things easy, so please be patient with current update timeframe.

Thanks, and enjoy the future updates!:)

Thanks for the news syrus.xl, Get well soon, and don't work yourself too hard. You're much more important than the hack =)

Looking forward to it :)

Take care

The Album Bridge? Is this where users will have their own albums in the flash format?

I think (hope) it's where you can set which albums you want the gallery to pull the images from.

Hi syrus.xl, thanks for the up date.

If you allow my suggestions....

If could use the Alt from Vb to link the layout of you mod this way it would get the appearence merged to Vb doesn't matter what stile people have. Same idea for CMPS module.

Cheers

Am really looking forward to a bridge for Photopost

Hope you have a speedy recovery.

The vBulletin 3.7 Album User Bridge v1.0 will just be a simple bridge that pulls the last uploaded images to all user albums. It is not user specific yet, this will be an option when the bridge is fully supported under AdminCP control, with usergroup permissions, etc.

Basically, the bridge about to be released will just be a dynamic XML version of what is already available, but requires no images - since they are all pulled through the vb database, eliminating the need to create images manually.

It will be available has a separate download, and is only a single file upload, no product XML file is required for the bridge. It will come with a new flash igallery file, which is configured for dynamic input only, along with background image import.

It does use Alt settings from vB, the background image is just an extra defined feature, instead of me leaving it fixed within the flash file.

Awesome !! Just counting down for your update.

Tks

Great mod Syrus !!

Installed it to see how it would look like on my forums.

Once you have the Albums Bridge i'll give the link to my members :D:D

I have VBi Gallery 1.23 installed now. Can I replace it with this? Do I need to delete/remove it prior to installation of this new version? In other words not an upgrade?

Thanks for this awesome hack. Reading through 8 pages, I have not seen anyone brings up the question that whether or not this hack can pull the image from other hosting images such as photobucket, imageshack and such .....

Also, since this hack is going to intergrate with user album:
1/ is user album have to set as public in order for it to pull the images or it will even pull from private album?

2/ how many queries it will use?

looking forard to the bridge :D