User Profile Member Link for Coppermine Gallery
 

It?s my time to give back to the vb.org community. Our site is using Coppermine Photo Gallery for our members and we needed a way to have a link in the member?s profile that would go directly to their gallery and not just the general page. So, with a little bit of code, I wrote it. (very little that is) I felt there may be others that can use this little add-on to link there members too. If you use it please remember to click install, it will let me know if this hack was worth posting or not.


REQUIREMENTS: 1) Coppermine Gallery (http://coppermine-gallery.net/) 1.4.0 or better (Installed and working)
2) VB Bridge (Installed and working for Coppermine)

VERSION: 1.0

VERSIONS SUPPORTED: 3.5.X (maybe 3.6.x? but untested)

PROCESS: One plug-in install, and one template mod

INSTALL TIME: One minute or less

DIFFICULTY: Super Easy


INSTALL INSTRUCTIONS:
******* Step One *************
Download the CMG_memberlink_plugin.xml and add it as a new plug-in with the Plugin Manager in your AdminCP


******** Step Two *************
******** Add this line into your MEMBERINFO template where you want gallery link to show********
******** Make sure to edit the URL to point to your gallery *****



******* Step Three ************
Click the install button on vBulletin.org

****** Step Four ************
Enjoy!

Thanks, any screen shoot? :)

i was thinking about installing coppermine, if i do this will be a nice add on

It's a bit hard to show a text link of what it does in a screen shot. All it does is add the members category id for coppermine to the end of the URL link to the gallery.

How about a screen shot of your admincp and usercp?To show us what it will look like.Im just curious,This hack enables members with permission to start there own gallery? Or is this a done manually per member request?
I just want to make sure this is the hack I have been searching for. Thank You.

Coppermine gives ever member their own gallery when you install the VB bridge for itl. It is a baic few steps to setup the bridge. The VB Bridge is included with Coppermine. The little hack I created just makes a link to the user's gallery for others to view.

What if the member has not created a gallery in coppermine yet?

cool i was looking for this, :) works in 3.6.8

works great...now to figure out how to get that link into the postbit!

To add it to your postbit.
Make this into an xml file.

It is basically the same thing as the other one. You'll need both. Save it and import that.

Then, the HTML part in the postbit that you're adding will look like:
Again, it's the same thing as above, just with a different variable name. The differences in the XML file are just the unique name, and that the hook fires are the postbit.

Example:
http://www.flyersphans.com/forums/