PhotoPlog: The Pro Gallery
 

PhotoPlog: The Pro Gallery - Version 2.1.6 for vBulletin 4.2.1

This is a full-fledged and completely integrated image gallery add-on for vBulletin. No template edits are necessary. This is the same version that was licensed for sale back in the vBulletin 3 days, but it has been upgraded to vBulletin 4.2.1 and is being offered without charge and is not feature-limited. You get the full pro version.

It comes with various thumb, image, and display settings, has the ability to determine and display EXIF information, is integrated with several packages including Highslide, and you can set a number of usergroup and category permissions, moderate comments and files, add custom fields, FTP import, mass move, and more.


Integrated packages (all are the most recent packages available as of 09 June 2013):

• Highslide JS 4.1.13
• JHead 2.97
• CKEditor 4.1.1
• jQuery 1.10.1

PhotoPlog Pro 2.1.6 has been developed for the following version of vBulletin:

• vBulletin 4.2.1 (fresh install)

PhotoPlog Pro 2.1.6 has been tested on the following browsers:

• Firefox 21.0
• Internet Explorer 10.0.5

Check out the screenshots.


How to upgrade from PhotoPlog Pro v.2.1.5 to PhotoPlog Pro v.2.1.6?

You can follow the readme file, but this is a small change to fix a bug I inadvertently introduced
(sorry!!) when I moved the code around. All you need to do is one minute of work as follows:

• FTP these three files from the PhotoPlog ZIP:
  
  Code:

  ---

  /forum/admincp/photoplog_plugins.php
/photoplog/functions.php
/photoplog/settings.php

  ---

• Reimport the following XML file via the vB ACP:
  
  Code:

  ---

  product-photoplog.xml

  ---

  Do NOT uninstall !!!
  Do allow overwrite.

How to upgrade from any other version of PhotoPlog to PhotoPlog Pro v.2.1.6?

• Backup first and then follow the upgrade instructions in the readme file.

Additional questions...
Will there be a PhotoPlog version for vBulletin 5? Probably not. My understanding is that vBulletin 5 already includes a gallery.
So what happened to you anyway? Personal issues. My sincerest apologies to anyone negatively affected by my absence.
What about GARS, GAB, GAZ, GAL, and GeekMart? I'm not sure if I'll update these, and probably not anytime soon.

Tag Modification :) thanks calorie

Great job :)

I like CKEditor 4.1.1 in screen-shot
Any chance to merge it into the forum also? VB4.2.1

Many thanks!! :)

Can the image files be stored in a remote server?

It's amazing to see you back. Hope things are okay for you.

thank you i had the pro version a while back...:up:

Nice to see you back Calorie.

Great to see you & this fab mod back :)

Thanks everyone. :)

@sadiq6210: I'm not sure what it'd all take to get CKEditor 4.1.1 as vB's default editor. One of the first steps would probably be to compare the CKEditor 3.6.2 version in vBulletin to the stock CKEditor 4.1.1 version and see how to include YAHOO.util.stuff and vbulletin.stuff and then try it and see what breaks, find out why, edit in a fix, repeat.

@hsoen: Sorry, the images directory is a relative subdirectory to the main gallery directory.

Thanks again everyone, I hope you enjoy PhotoPlog. :up:

I am glad to see you back.

I'd suggest not messing with the editor until its properly supported in vb4.

How do I go about upgrading from vB3 lite to vB4 pro?

Over 5k uploads that I need to keep. :)

Will this work with 4.2.0 pl3?

(I know you posted 4.2.1, I hafta ask as I wont be upgrading to 4.2.1 anytime soon)

@Reece^B: Back up your gallery database tables and images directory then follow the instructions in the readme file to upgrade from lite to pro. Don't of course overwrite your images directory!! Set the config file, leave the prefix file as blank, and FTP all the stuff over (except the images directory or it'll overwrite your current one) and then import the XML file allowing overwrite. The upgrade will change the database tables but won't mess with the images themselves.

@smirkley: Good question. I don't have that version installed to test. Last version I played with before 4.2.1 was 4.0.0 and that was before the inclusion of the CKEditor. My guess is that it'll install just fine (you might need to edit the XML file and remove the dependency though).

Thanks for sharing your superb product..

Some minor problems showing,as in duplicate titles,description fields when uploading.

Receiving the following error after install:
Also, I haven't made the vba template modifications yet, but the vbadbanced CMPS front page is completely blank and only shows if I disable your mod. :(

i got something like this to that's why i had to uninstall the mod

@skol: That looks to be from double entries in the photoplog_customfields database table. Do you remember what you did right beofre that occurred? If you post the content of the photoplog_customfields table, I can tell you what rows to remove (or you can figure it out by looking where the doubles are based on catid in that table).


@angeljs and @davidg: If you receive an error like this:
Update: I thought that (a) you didn't FTP all the PhotoPlog files to the server or (b) you FTPed them to the wrong place, but I received a PM with a clue, sorry, I'll look into this.

@angeljs and @davidg: Please see "How to upgrade from PhotoPlog Pro v.2.1.5 to PhotoPlog Pro v.2.1.6?" in the release post to take care of the problem you experienced. Sorry.

If anyone else has a problem, just let me know. It is likely something minor that can be easily fixed. For PhotoPlog Pro v.2.1.5 on vB 4.2.1 I moved stuff around b/c I got sick of waiting and waiting for the XML import, but I accidentally introduced a bug that I didn't come across in my tests. Said bug is now fixed in PhotoPlog Pro v.2.1.6 so thanks for letting me know.

Hope you enjoy PhotoPlog. :up:

I wish this was part of standard vbulletin .... great product!!

Not that you asked but, this product is well worth getting installed. I love mine.

Thanks I did find the duplicates..It happens when I add a new category but only on that new category the others are fine..

Edit: Found the other two duplicates that were causing the problem sorted now,thanks again.

nice ;)

Thanks everyone. :D

@skol: Was it your first new category? A sub-category? The first category after adding a divider bar? I haven't yet been able to replicate it, but I believe it is there though it only seems to happen in certain circumstances. If you can provide any further clue, I'd appreciate it. :up:

I'm having the blank portal page issue as well and I am not seeing how the 'How to upgrade from PhotoPlog Pro v.2.1.5 to PhotoPlog Pro v.2.1.6?' steps are any fix for that.

Installation went fine and PhotoPlog works but unless I disable the mod my VBA portal and all associated portal pages are completely blank. I did go through the steps mentioned in the vbadvanced.txt file and am using the latest version.

Can this mod be used in shared webhosting with limited inodes since it stores images in file directory instead of vBulletin attachment mysql database?

How do you guys resolve such a limited inodes issue for running an image gallery with images storing in file directory?

@espkaruna: Try the attached file with vBA and please let me know the output. My guess is that a variable is not in scope but without access to a site with the problem, it is hard to tell without an actual error message or something to go on, sorry.

@hsoen: What is your inode limit? Just looking at HG as an example, the shared level of hosting has a limit of 250K. Do you think your gallery would be bigger than that (minus what you already have stored)? If so, IMO you'd up your hosting account to VPS or dedicated, not serve that many files from a database. You wouldn't want that many files to be served from a database, and if your gallery got that big, you'd have a rather active site and would probably need better hosting specs anyway. HTHs.

@calorie: Yeah, I am with HG. Not yet hit the 250K inode limit. Even upgrade to VPS also subject to 1000K inode limit. Look like as the gallery grows, upgrading webhosting is the only way.

As inode is limited, I guess there is a need to limit number of images members can upload. Can Photoplog set image upload limit per user?

Can we use Photoplog to replace vBulletin image attachment? i.e. disable vBulletin image attachment.

@hsoen: Yes, you can set a limit on the number of uploads a person can do by setting limits on a per usergroup basis. Right now in v.2.1.6 each usergroup by default can upload 300 images with each being a max of 3MB, and you can set that to whatever you want. You can also set category permissions so if you only want your users uploading to certain categories, you can do that too. As for PhotoPlog replacing vB's image attachment system, I haven't tried that, but I suppose you could do it if you allow bbcodes, disallow attachments, but then allow gallery access. Then everyone would upload through the gallery and use bbcodes to link to images, but I'm not sure you'd want to do that as that would disallow non-image attachments.

Hello, is this php 5.4 ready I'm having issue installing plugin see error.

@puertoblack2003: PhotoPlog v.2.1.5 and up should be PHP 5.4 ready unless I missed an ereg() or spilt() type function somewhere, but I don't think I did. That error is saying it can't find the photoplog_prefix.php file. Do you have the photoplog_prefix.php file on your server inside the forumsvb/includes directory?

my apologies calorie, I failed to read the second part of your instructions. i had to remove the .new from the file :o it installed fine. Thank you. :up:

Great! One big reason I hated to upgrade from vb 3.8 to 4.x is because we lost Photoplog. We had thousands of photos that we couldn't use. Looking forward to getting this part of our site back!

has anyone used photopost vbgallery and this? I'm curious which one you liked better and why. vbgallery isn't supported anymore and hasn't had an update in years now. Although I see this probably won't be updated either.

Sorry for the late reply,I myself am unable to replicate it again..Basically I believe I deleted the default categories and created a new one leaving all settings as default and then imported multiple images via ftp..

Sorry I cant be of more assistance, but I will report back should it occur again..

tpearl5, yes, vbgallery no longer supported & again it does not work on the new version vb4.2.1. But is not known to be supported photoplog long time.
Vbgallery & photoplog functionally almost identical.
Replaced without loss does not happen, the various links.
I would not recommend replace it to photoplog

@tpearl5: If you already use vBGallery, then you probably want to stick with it unless your gallery is small where it doesn't matter if you start new. There is no import/export script between the galleries so starting PhotoPlog means losing vBGallery content (if you uninstall it). To avoid that, you could run vBGallery and install PhotoPlog but block uploads to vBGallery so you'd only be using it to feed any images already out there. As for updating PhotoPlog to vB5, there are currently no plans to do this, as vBulletin 5 already seems to have a gallery, but who knows what vB's gallery is going to look like. Also, vBulletin 5 isn't ready for the bigger mods (as evidenced by the number of vB5 mod releases to date). It's hard to say what will happen in the future. However, right now PhotoPlog has many of the features of any of the popular galleries out there even though you may read it referenced to as a "vB hack" or something similar by at least one commercial competitor. With PhotoPlog you can set permissions based on usergroup, add a watermark to images, create custom fields, upload as a different user, among other things.

@skol: I couldn't reproduce this either, but if you or anyone else experiences it, please let me know. Thanks!!

@ikopylov: Yes, you are correct, PhotoPlog wasn't upgraded to vB 4.2.1 until just recently, and for that I'm sorry. You are also correct that vBGallery and PhotoPlog are similar. Both cannot work without vBulletin, and both also have similar features though there is no import/export script so links between the two would be broken (without htaccess redirects or running both as mentioned above). You could also use PhotoPlog's FTP import to get any images into PhotoPlog quickly, though this of course won't redirect links on its own. Other than that, I don't know much about vBGallery especially after the PhotoPost/vBAdvanced lawsuit/whatever thing happened, sorry.

On my navbar I want to rename "Photoplog" to "Photos". Where and what do I change?

Will this mod slow down the server loading?

What is the best recommended settings for maximum picture file size and pixel dimension?

Still receiving the same error, plus blank vbadvanced page, plus I receive a permissions error when accessing the categories on the front end. I have modified the usergroups, but still nothing.