4images Gallery 1.7 + vB 3.0.x (update Oct 30)
 

Since Matrixgl didnt give much update over his post, so I make this release, with all the changes:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=62020
Original copyright go to 4images owner Jan Sorgalla

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Integration 4images 1.7 / vBulletin 3.0.x
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Copyright: (C) 2002 Jan Sorgalla
Integration to vBulletin 2.x by Jan
Integration to vBulletin 3.0.1 by mtha
Constribution:
Matrixgl for re-organize the hack
d1635d for adding the fix for 3.0.1
all others for comments and suggestions

Hack version: 3.0.1.0625
Compatible vB version: 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.3. other versions might need minor modifications

FOR integration with vB 3.5.0, check this thread:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=98640

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Features:
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- Use vBulletin's user table instead of 4images.
- Forum's members can access and upload pictures (depends on permissions)
- Forum's admin can administrate the album (unless you do the EXTRA part)
- Display Who is browsing album, in the Forum's WhoisOnline list


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Changes and modifications
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4images template to change: 1 (user_loginform.html)
4images file to replace: 1 (sessions.php)
4images file to edit: 3
admin/admin_global.php
includes/constants.php
includes/page_header.php
vBulletin file to edit: 2
forums/includes/functions.php
includes/functions_online.php
Query to run: 0
If you do EXTRA part, there're few queries to run, depends on what you want to do.
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Requirements:
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- vBulletin 3.0.x installed and working
- 4images 1.7 fresh installed and working
- 4images and vBulletin are installed to use the SAME database
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Limitations:
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- The "Remember username/password?" options only remember sessions for forum. (FIXED 06/22/04 - see update)

- This hack use default usergroup for album level, there're only4levels of Guest, User awaiting, User, Admin. See Extra section attheend for solution
- I didnt look at the "cooke path" and "cookie domain" yet, so it will use the default

Screenshot (thanks to MatrixGL):
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...chmentid=17021

Demo (thanks to MatrixGL):
http://www.randomforum.com/forums/gallery/

NOTE:
You may want to edit your template, in order to have the forum's look and feel :D.


Previous discussions:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=62020
http://www.4homepages.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10823


Dont forget to click https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/

Update 03/24/2005
If you get error loging out of album:
in page_header.php, line 110

replace
by

Update 10/30/2004
Since meny people have problem with vB usergroup, I've add Usergroups arrays,
Now you can set multiple custom user groups to be USER, USER_WAITING, or ADMIN
By default:
Update 10/20/2004
Sincemeny people ignore to config the "VB_TABLE_PREFIX" inconfiguration,I've pull all the prefix into one place, and make STRONGrequest tocheck this one.
If your album works fine, you dont have to update your files.
If you do want to apply the changes, here's where you can check:

constants.php
define('VB_TABLE_PREFIX',''); // your vb tableprefix. vB default is blank
define('SESSIONS_TABLE', VB_TABLE_PREFIX.'session');
define('USERS_TABLE', VB_TABLE_PREFIX.'user');

sessions.php
define('VB_TEMPLATE_TABLE', VB_TABLE_PREFIX.'template');

Update 06/25/2004
Clean up some codes, add some more instructions. Adding constants for Cookie prefix, cookie timeout, album folder ...
If your album works fine, you dont have to update your files.
If you do want to ... work again, just follow all the steps :D


Update 06/22/04
IF you have "Remember username/password?" problem with album (Album session dont remember your logged in if you go directly to album - installed before 06/22/04)

Edit the attached sessions.php, and replace the VBLICENCE_NUMBER, and upload to your album/include/sessions.php

OR

Manually edit:

In 4images sessions.php

Look for
replace by

CHANGE XXXXXX with your Licence Number, located on top of any of your vB file

NOTE: for those runing into table doesnt exist problem, check your VB_TABLE_PREFIX variable

Table '4images.template' doesn't exist
DB Error: Bad SQL Query: SELECT sessionhash FROM session
Table '4images.session' doesn't exist

Very nice work mtha. I personally won't be installed as I have photoshop, but I'm sure there's loads of members waiting for this one :cool:.

i have clicked install

Nice, i may use it :)

Thanks mtha!

One question before I start..
Will this work on a 4images I already have installed with matrixgl's mod?
Or is it only for a fresh install?

Thanks again.

This one is just a rewrite, with all the updates in the other post. If you have his mod working fine, (including my update overthere), you dont need to reinstall this one.
They are actually the same thing, (originally released by Jan, modified by me for 3.0.1)


You mean photopost? I personnaly like 4images better than photopost. I looked over photopost and didnt see any strong advantage over this one, which would worth $199

:)

I have a 4images gallery with almost 500 users and of course, those users are not in the same order as on the message board...is there any alternative to getting 4images to just use the vB database? Something I could do so that the users are matched up in some other way, so that vB user ID # 35 doesn't take over gallery user ID #35's pictures and such?

does anyone know the quickest way of skinning the 4images gallery so it looks like my board?

View the source of your board, copy the html, and paste the parts of the 4images templates where you want them in the forum layout.

That's what I always do anyways.

You do have to re-do all the CSS with 4images, but it's worth it in the long run.

There is NO automatic and safe way to do this, BUT you can try this method (require that you know enough php and SQL in order to do the job)


What you have are:
01 - vB user database with USERSET1 controled by userid (and username), says user.userid and user.username
02 - Album user database with USERSET2, controlled by user_id (and user_name) says 4images_users.user_id and 4images_users.user_name


Step 1:
- Create a new COMPARE table having 3 fields: username, forum_uid, album_uid

Step 2:
- Compare 4images_users.user_name and user.username
if match => fill in the COMPARE table (username, forum_uid, album_uid) for this user.
if not => fillin COMPARE table, with album's username, album_uid, DEFAULTID where DEFAULTID is the ID given for those who does NOT have account in forum or have different username in forum. If you want to assign this to be GUEST, the ID is 0

Do this for ALL ALBUM users

=> you know the id in forum and album for each album user

(if they have the SAME username for both places. if you think email address would be more appropriate, you can compare email instead, or compare both username and email)

Step 3:
Change user_id in album to the new forum's userid based on the above comparision, in the following tables:
4images_comments, 4images_groupmatch, 4images_images, 4images_images_temp, 4images_lightboxes, 4images_users

Step 4:
Test your album and see if everything works correctly (username, login/logout, image's poster)

Step 5: Apply this hack ... and god bless you :D


good luck.

PS. this will require alot of changes to your database, so Do a FULL BACKUP of your album database first (maybe your files too), and test in a beta version

hey man, remember me ? ^^
great work ~

long time no see, I've noiticed that you have been here for a long time, and it looks like you are a good hacker
well mtha, I want to have some advise from you about choosing a good ablum. I'm thinking between 4image and vgallery (www.vietphp.info). I was testing vgallery but unfortunately it's only integrated with vb2 and I'm running vb3 so of course I can't use that one. My board still doesn't have an album because I cannot use 4images, as my expierence 4images takes alot of database storage (I've backupped 4images once and it's about 40MB in a fresh install T__T ).
So I'm seeking for the best album that fits my board (using sharing server). If you have enough spare time, I hope you can make vgallery to work well with vb3 (instead of vb2) and I also want to hear your opinions about 4images or any other simple photo galleries that can be used for vb3.
thanks in advance, mtha

:) vgallery is a very nice gallery, I like that interface. However, I dont use this gallery. just had the lite version for testing, so I have no idea how to manage the code.

It it works with vB2, why dont you try to test on vb3 and see if it works? or send a request to that guy who wrote the hacl?

are you kidding? it's only more than 1MB on a fresh install only. You may have something extra?

4images is the best that i've known of so far. it's as good, or even better than photopost :D, very easy to customize.

thankx mtha . It's a good hack . But now I want my gallery the same with your gallery (http://www.randomforum.com/forums/gallery/ ) Can U tell me how to do this ?

That's not MY gallery, I think that's MatrixGL's :D

How to do?
You just need to edit your template, change the header, footer, and all the related ones.

As I said, that is not my gallery, so I cant tell you how exactly.

Hi all,
just a question about memory usage with 4images and vBulletin in one database.
I just downloaded 4images today and then found this thread to integrate in vB. thanks to all developers working on that Hack !
Can somebody give me a "feeling" about growing of the database when 4images is installed in the same db ?
Like 100 picture about xyz MB or 500 pictures about abc MB

My opinion is that having both in one db should explode the memory usage.

I have to upgrade a domain with actual 250MB vB2 database and about 1.000 pictures in a phpgallery to a vB3 with 4images.

Talking about 4images

- 4images save pictures as files in data folder, not in database.
How much space it takes, depends on your image files. If you have big files (images), it takes more, if you have small files, it takes less.

Says I have 9500 pictures, taking about 1.4 Gb of webspace (images + thumbnails) and 3.8Mb of database.

Good luck

PS:
- memory, webspace, and database are three different things.
- domain and website are different too

thanks for your quick reply mtha !

Oops, I think the images were saved also in the database...

thanks for the information

Ok I believe I have discovered why this limitation is occuring. Assuming you have installed the hack to integrate the 4images gallery and it works fine except for this limitation, here is the problem:

When you visit the 4images gallery the first thing that happens is the sessions.php script is run. First it looks to see if an existing session is found. If no session is found, it returns false. The exact function calls are as follows:


The session is initiated


The session tried to grab existing session info


In demand_session() the above code is first run. The class searches for a cookie "sessionhash" which won't be found the first time you visit the gallery, so this function fails.


Next, the code loads all session info, based upon the value set in $this->get_session_id ... since that function failed the rest of the session script fails. No session is found.

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The basic problem:

First the function "get_session_id()" is called. Currently the function first checks for an existing cookie "sessionhash." Again, when you visit the gallery the very first time, no existing session will be there (sessions are deleted when you close your browser). Next the function checks to see if "sessionhash" exists in the query string (HTTP_GET_VARS) or from a submitted form (HTTP_POST_VARS). Again, on your very first visit to the gallery, neither of these will exist. Finally the function returns "false" which in essence says there is no session so the user is not logged in.

The basic fix:

We need to edit "get_session_id()" to include some code that will, after not finding an existing session, check to see if the user has cookies on their computer that identify them as a valid forum user. If the user's cookies (userid and password) match the info in the vbulletin user database table, then the user should be automatically logged in - we need to create the seession for them here.

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I am not super familiar with vB session code. I would have to sit down and spend some time to determine how the vB sessions are handled. If anyone is more familiar with this you can expand on the following basic pseudocode and make this fix so the discussed limitation is fixed. THE FOLLOWING IS NOT A FIX, BUT IS PSEUDOCODE FOR WHAT SHOULD HAPPEN.

That is just the basic idea. If someone can code this up and make it work, that would be great! I'll try to figure out the coding for this myself, but it may take awhile.

FIXED - Update 06/22/04

In 4images sessions.php

Look for
replace by

CHANGE XXXXXX with your Licence Number, located on top of any vB file

Make sure that you have the correct password field in the file
"user_password" => "password",

The new sessions.php file in the first post was updated.

Thank CreedFeed for pushing me to fix this :D Try it and let me know if it works

of course I've tried it with vb3 and the result was as I expected and I did send a request to Deathy Smile the coder but have received no response, it's ok since I understand how busy he is.
I know it's insance saying that it took 40MB of my database, but that was true and that's the reason why I don't use 4images. Anyways I'll be installing it once more to make sure ^^ and have a chance to install your hack, mtha
by the way, is this the hack GVN is running or the one in GVN is BM's private work ? now I know the reason why you are an admin of GVN tho you have never posted anything. And do you know any places that share free 4images skins ?.

P.s: do you still online in YIM ? can we chat ? ^^

You must have backed up more than just 4images, or you were looking at the numbers wrong. 4images right out of the box is just over 1MB in files, and the database without any extra data in it is ~60KB.

What?! You're kidding me? You're a saint, mtha!
I'll try it when I get home and let you know!

mtha,

Actually that fix doesn't solve the problem. I still have the same limitation issue. Like I posted above, the initial check fails so it doesn't start a new session. I believe you need to add a check for the cookie bbuserid and bbpassword in that get_session_id function that will check for an existing session and set the user's session_id...

Since that function fails initially, no session is set up.

Hello,

When I edit the "functions.php" file, I receive this error:

Also, with all the edits on the gallery script, I receive these errors:

I'm asuming I did something wrong. What could be wrong?

Thanks for your time!

Could you tell me what is in your /forums/includes/functions.php on line 1864

try: open the ORIGINAL functions.php file,
Look for

Replace with
It seems like you didnot assign value for GUEST

Did you edit the album's include/constants.php ?

Make sure that you have this lines:



that does fix the problem. I was able to login and test over your album and it works fine. You may want to remove your cookies, logout of computer (to make sure the cookie are all gone) and try again.

Are you looking at the whole database (with forum installed)? or what?
anyway, it's up to you for the version you are using.

what's the different?

No. I design the skin to match my site, I dont look for free skins. sorry cant help here :D

The GUEST value has been fixed. The problem was that when I changed it, it was like this:

// User Levels define('GUEST', 0);

So it couldn't of seen the guest value. ^_^


On line 1864 of functions.php, it has as follows (the edited one):
When I do the edit on the original code, it works fine. I'm guessing a hack that I have installed is conflicting with the integration?

Good you solved that.


I dont see the relationship here, but ... well maybe there's some conflict ... I have no idea what it should be yet.

Just a note: mtha's fix for that limitation talked about a few posts up above actually does work. I had an issue with my browser and it's cookies.

Thanks to mtha for releasing the fix so quickly!

is it now possible to write for example an post/Thread and show the screenshots with image gallery?
or is only the comment system integrated .. this way is better than no way .. just asking what exactly the integration dows .. the demo i saw .. but thread/post integration could not be defined .. (on comment system)

The integration simply integrates vB's user database with 4images - so if you are logged into your vB forum, you are also logged into 4images. No need for two separate logins. It makes it very convienant (sp?) for your users - they don't need to signup for your forums and image gallery.

Dont really understand your question but in the first post:

Screenshot:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/atta...achmentid=17021

Demo:
http://www.randomforum.com/forums/gallery/


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Features:
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- Use vBulletin's user database to access 4images album
All forum's members can access your 4images album and upload pictures (depends on permissions). You dont need to register twice in forum and album.

I have another question about adding to this hack... when you view your forum's Who's Online page it shows any user who's browsing the gallery as "Viewing Index" and the link below goes to the forum index. How would you edit it to say "Viewing Gallery" and the link below links to your gallery?

mtha, say I'm running more than one 4images on my site..
I'm using one for a .. let's say "classified" script, and the other as an "album" script.

In the "functions_online.php" how would I make it so one says, "Browsing Album" and the other say, "Browsing Classifieds"??

Read the instruction file and follow the steps carefully.

There's a part in step 4 to do it:

======================
<edit file>
includes/functions_online.php
</edit file>
======================

<search for>
</search for>
<add after>
</add after>
======================
<search for>
</search for>
<add after>
</add after>
======================

make sure that you have that part correct
and remember to correct the token too

else if (strpos($token, "/album/") !== false)


same as above, you have another token for /classified/ add add the same code (replace the name) in the places




by the way, the $token will read the value from $userinfo['location'];
if you dont have the location field for album different from forum's, you may get in trouble with this :D

of course it's only the 4iamges, and even with the forum the whole database couldn't be that much.
the difference is: I thought all GVN's work is of BM, as far as I've heard from others admin, BM takes care almost all the important things of GVN. now I see you are a good hacker then you may do some role in GVN life ^^
sorry to going off topic. I'm going to install 4images to trouble you by this hack
mtha do you plan to make any hacks ? like a music online hack which fully uses vb3 template and function ? I am looking for a good hack like it.

Okay, I just reinstalled this mod and when I go directly to the gallery, I'm logged in, but some of my users aren't.. They are logged in to vB, but not 4images.

Was this fix supposed to check if they are logged into vB and have them be logged into 4images, or is it basically they go to the gallery, log in, and then it keeps them logged in/remembered?

Ahh I just realized I have been looking at the wrong installation file. I've been looking at the old one posted on the 4images website - the one made before this thread. That's why I didn't have the fix for the who's online thing, as that isn't in that installation file. Whoops!

This hack supposed to allow you login directly to album AND login to forum then go to album.

It is working fine in my album/forum :D

why dont YOU try to test it yourself? doing this:
- login to your album (without "remember me" checked)
- login to your album (with "remember me" checked) and close browser and come back to album
- login to your forum (with/without "remember me" checked) and browse to album from there.

Make sure that you CLEAN your cookies before doing this (just to make sure that you dont have other cookie problems)

come back and let me know how it works.

It you can do it fine, and your member cant do it, then the problem could be at your member's side, tell him to clear his cookies or check his computer :D
if you get trouble too, register for me an account over your forum/album, and PM to me, I will take a look


CreedFeed, do you have everything working as it's supposed to?

if you look at this hack, you will see some part if this one from him. He's a great coder though, and he does take care of all the important things of GVN. and you are really funny too. you think that I, having a administrator title, do no role in GVN life? :tired:

No I dont. There're too many "music online" scripts, and I am not interested in this.

mtha,

Actually I'm still having a problem. It seems that the session fix thing isn't working in Mozilla and Firefox. It works in IE, but not the other two. I've cleared my cookies and all that stuff.

What I'm going to do is reinstall the 4images gallery from the beginning because I ended up missing some of the steps from that installation file. I want to be sure I have done everything. I'll update my status when I'm done. Starting this now...