Who's Online for PhotoPost vBGallery
 

If you are upgrading from a previous version, un-install the product first, then re-install the new version. (Yes, even from ver 1.0.0 to ver 1.0.1)

Do not use this product with...
WOL is built into PhotoPost vbGallery from versions 1.0.3 and 2.0.x onwards. Do not use this product with those versions of vbGallery.

Description:
This is a small product that shows locations of users in your PhotoPost vBGallery instead of "Unknown Location" in vB's Who's Online page. I did not add links to the locations.

I had wanted to add links to some of the locations, but it looks complicated (getting the necessary data from the database and working out who should and should not see the links and activity details like image title, id, etc based on user and category permissions). It will take a lot more effort then I'm willing to, or can invest at the moment... so, I will not be adding that in the near future.

Oblivion Knight modified version 1.0.2 of this plugin to add links to the gallery index page. He posted the plugin in post #45.

Locations:
Browsing Image Gallery
Editing Gallery Image
Emailing Gallery Image
Managing Gallery Categories
Moderating Gallery Posts
Moderating Gallery Uploads
Posting Gallery Reply
Printing Gallery Image
Searching Gallery
Sending Gallery Ecard
Uploading To Gallery
Viewing Gallery
Viewing Gallery Image
Viewing Gallery Index
Viewing Gallery Slideshow
Viewing Linked Gallery Image

Credits:
Noppid for this WOL How-To.

Tested on:
vBulletin 3.5.1 and PhotoPost vBGallery (vbAdvanced Gallery) 1.01
vBulletin 3.5.4 and PhotoPost vBGallery 1.02

Effort to install:
1. Download the XML.
2. Import the product at the AdminCP->Plugin System->Manage Products.
(See the vBulletin manual on how to install products.)

What is installed:
- 3 Plugins
- 16 Phrases
(All names of the above are prefixed with "vp_")

Support:
Unfortunately I have to withdraw active support for this mod as I have simply do not have enough time on my hands nowadays.

Notes:
- If you have many plugins installed at the "online_location_unknown", it may interfere with this product. Most likely it's because the other hooks sets a variable that indicates the locations have been successfully processed. I have an "if" statement to catch that to prevent unnecessary processing. All you need to do to fix it is edit the "Process vBaGallery WOL Locations" plugin at that hook and remove:
and "}" in the last line of the plugin.

Change Log:
Ver 1.0.1 (Beta) - 19 Nov 2005
- Added missing phrases.
Ver 1.0.2 (Beta) - 26 Nov 2005
- Removed an extra line of code.

* Reserved *

great thank you :) :)

Installed, thanks :up:

nice makes the WHOS ONLINE bit better;)

screen shot?

ups, please delete this

Thank you very much, now waiting for the links directory :rolleyes:
Ah, it would be nice if you could to integrate what image people are looking.

Screenshots?

Screenshots coming soon.

I've also discovered I've left out a few phrases. I'll put up an updated XML within the hour.

Updated and uploaded. Apologies for the inconvenience.

Screen shot added.

Also note I have decided not to add links to the locations, which I earlier had said I would do.

Thank you very much, been looking all over vbadvanced forum for something like this :)

Cheers!

Thanks for this. Just need the one for my links section :banana:

I'm not using links, but if someone can send me a list of php files in the root of the link folder I can probably do up the plugin. But just locations, no links to their actual location.

Wow thank you sooooooooooo much!!!!
You rock!!
I badly needed this!!
Thanks thanks thanks!!!!
:D :D :D

I hate to say that, as I know how difficult it is for the coder to figure out but it doesn't work :( Still shows like "unknown location"... :(

This is cool ... the only problem I'm getting is with showimage.php and browseimage.php. They're not specific enough.

If you click on the link it brings up a "no image/category selected." error

However, I'd rather have this than 'unknown location' :)

Where is your gallery installed? Mine isn't in the default root/gallery folder so I had to edit line 3 of the xml file to read /interactive/gallery/ rather than just /gallery/

I've fixed it for Michelle. She has a lot of plugin's installed at the online_location_unknown hook and one of them messed with one of the statements in my plugin for preventing unecessary processing.

I will post and update around that in a while.

That's odd because I didn't put in any links at all.

Version 1.0.2 released. Bug fix... sort of. Noticed an extra line of code, but it did not seem to be causing problems for anyone. It has been removed.

the file is missing ;)

Whoops! Sorry about that. Uploaded it again.

lol its a nice hack but i still get this here and there

Unknown Location
/forum.php

I just checked ... I'd already tried to add some WOL info using the custom WOL hack. It wasn't working at all on its own ... but it seems that with yours added the 2 hacks were working together.

Very odd.

This product only adds WOL locations for vBadvance Gallery. Forum.php is not one of vBa Gallery's locations. It's from the modcp or admincp. You would be in forum.php if you accessed the Forum Manager either in the AdminCP or ModCP.

I'm pretty sure this product does not interfere with the normal WOL processing of vBulletin locations. Perhaps you have another plugin that is doing that?

You're using the hack by Andreas? If so, there are some posts in that hack's thread that specifically says that it will not work with files outside the forum folder.

My plugins specifically looks for files from the gallery folder, and strips off the path, leaving only the filename. That allows the filenames to be recognised by the custom WOL hack.

Great work and thanks however it killed the link on my gallery so you could not find out what they were looking at. I tried to edit the xml file to show the true location of my gallery but no luck. It might be that I have a chat hook already set to show chat locations. At any rate since the only unknown location messages that I get are from my gallery I simply edited the $vbphrase[unknown_location] phrase to "</b>Photo Gallery<b>" The html code is in place on purpose so that it removes the bold type from the photo gallery but still closes the tag. I'm sure there are better ways but for me it worked fine. Again thanks for the work.

MaxM,

I don't quite get what you mean.

Do you mean you are still getting "Unknown location" for gallery links, when my plugins are enabled? Or that the location names are shown, but the link to the location is gone?

Or that you uninstalled/disabled it and edited $vbphrase[unknown_location].

Anyway, if you want to known their URL, set "Can view actual location of user (filepath/url)" to YES in the usergroup permissions. Members of that user group will see a round button with a question mark in the same column as the location name. When they mouseover the button, they will see a popup showing the URL of the location.

could you make one of these for vbadvanced? would be really nice since i get some of the Unknown Locations on there

I uninstalled your xml file and then edited my unknown_location text to read Photo Gallery since it was the only time I had ever seen unknown location. As I stated with your application I could not tell the exact url that people were looking at.

Max

You can see the exact URL... just mouse over the Question Mark graphic on the right of the location name. See the attached image. This is provided that you set the appropriate permissions for yourself in the UserGroup.

so do you think you could?

I didn't try that, is there any way to make the url show up rather then just preview?

Thanks

MaxM, yes there is. Give me a few days to work on it.

Which vBadvanced product?

Thing is, I'm not using anything else from them other then the Gallery. It's isn't hard to do, but I need the list of php files that are called and if possible access to your forum where I can see the vBadvanced product working. Can't guarantee I'll catch everything though.

As I have it now this is what you see. But if it could be fixed to look like that without the edit to the unknown that would be better.

vinzphua ill pm you... yeah this would be great cause it sucks seeing that....

Is it possible for the next version to include a link to the gallery below the viewing location info? For example:

Browsing Image Gallery
Image Gallery

Much like the Viewing Forum info.

I think he said he's not going to do it.