Major Additions - PhotoPlog: The Lite Gallery

PhotoPlog: The Lite Gallery

PhotoPlog Lite is a gallery script for GIF, JPG, and PNG images. PhotoPlog Lite comes with categories, permissions, comments, search, moderation. The installation takes care of phrases, templates, tables, etcetera. Just follow the README.txt file for installation.

There is a license agreement that I request that you abide. Thanks!

This thread is organized as follows:

• Post1 contains this here release.
• Post2 contains current add-ons.
• Post3 contains onscreen errors.

Fine Print: see license agreement, no redistribution, copyright retained in full, right reserved to uncheck support box.

Requirements: vB 3.5.0+ (development initially based on having vB 3.5.4 though vB 3.6.0+ and vB 3.7.0+ should be okay, but not every version was personally tested) and MySQL 4.1+ (development based on having MySQL 4.1+ though MySQL 3+ may be okay, but not every version was personally tested) and PHP with GD2 and Safe Mode off

Does it work on vB 3.5 and vB 3.6 and vB 3.7? Yes, it should. See the requirements. Also, there are two product XML files, one for vB 3.5 and one for vB 3.6/3.7, so import the one that matches your vB version.

Live Demo and Official Support: http://www.photoplog.com/

Note on Official Support: With 70 some pages, assuming 15 posts per page, and over 1000 posts, all in one thread, official support for this mod is now held off-site. Apologies in advance for possibly having to register at yet another forum, but IMHO support would be better served elsewhere at this point.

All support requests, except perhaps for proven bugs, may be ignored if posted in this thread.

Comments, suggestions, etcetera are welcome, but please note that further modifications are not being planned, as this is intended as the final release of the lite series.

Fun Fact: PhotoPlog Lite v.2.0.6 had 4330 downloads plus 2262 downloads prior to CSRF protection plus 3031 downloads as of 06 Nov 2010!

[medw1974]

Excellent work Calorie

That works a treat.

Many Thanks

[nitro]

Originally Posted by calorie

Okay, in the PhotoPlog config add this somewhere:

define('THIS_SCRIPT','photoplog');

That sorted the empty vbportal variables. awsome left column and left column on/off switch now exists in photoplog

Slight bug with some portal specific images, which is a little more wierd path issue than a dual dir. maybe I will just cp the images as a cheepie way for now.

[Feckie (Roger)]

Have A Problem I set all the forum permissions to not require moderation
but all user groups still do even Admins

any Idea

[allstar55]

calorie, please look here with right click on the picture:
http://www.nfs-center.de/showroom/index.php?n=21

Size is 143770 Bytes (140kb)
But i don't have this picture with "this size" in my FTP.

Max is 100kb
This picture is in my FTP max 96kb.
medium is 18 and small 5.

Why is the pic so big in the URL?

[calorie]

@nitro: cool, glad the side bar is now working.

@Feckie (Roger): first call admincp/index.php?do=buildbitfields and then go to ACP -> PhotoPlog -> Usergroup Manager -> Click Go -> Scroll to Bottom -> Set PhotoPlog Permissions -> Click Save

@allstar55: who knows how your browser determines size when the image is coming from a PHP script. Trust the numbers you see via FTP.

[indie]

How could we create a vBadvanced CMPS module? I know how to create a module (the template part), but how could we call random photos, or new photos. The one for forumhome is too wide. The vBa CMPS one should be vertical, not horizontal, with a choice of how many photos to show, and perhaps, random, newest, and highest rated as choices. If that's too much, just random is good. Can anyone create one? Thanks

Originally Posted by calorie

Not without coding something up, maybe storing count in the user table.

RE: Having member's Gallery links in postbit/profile only show if they have images, or show a number next to it.
Any tips on how to do this for a non-coder? I think this would be useful. On my forum there's already been members that have suggested this. Thanks

[nitro]

@Calorie Ye its great that it will show, however some of the main menu links that lead to portal pages, ones that are template coded as opposed to soft added in the portal cp are not taking any notice of the duplicate directory setting and I am sure that is the same as the images problem for portal images having looked at it all a bit closer now.

Any tips on how this can be cured ? I know its not easy when its not a portal you have used. Allways open to suggestions tho

[allstar55]

@allstar55: who knows how your browser determines size when the image is coming from a PHP script. Trust the numbers you see via FTP.

Can you fix it? That cost much traffic.

[calorie]

@indie: will put your requests on a think-about, might-do list, but for the second, maybe try a profile field as an alternative.

@nitro:

If I am on http://www.domain.com/portal/forums/index.php the first menu link is <a href="/portal/modules.php?name=Fig">Somewhere</a> which leads to
http://www.domain.com/portal/modules.php?name=Fig but your dupe dir is /portal/forums so when I'm on http://www.domain.com/portal/photoplog/index.php
that same first link in the menu becomes <a href="http://www.domain.com/portal/forums/portal/modules.php?name=Fig">Somewhere</a> because
<a href="/portal/modules.php?name=Fig">Somewhere</a> is a relative link. As <a href="/portal/modules.php?name=Fig">Somewhere</a> is meant to lead to
http://www.domain.com/portal/modules.php?name=Fig go into the templates and set the absolute link so that <a href="/portal/modules.php?name=Fig">Somewhere</a>
becomes <a href="http://www.domain.com/portal/modules.php?name=Fig">Somewhere</a> in the template. Remember that when PhotoPlog makes absolute links, it
prepends http://www.domain.com/portal/forums on the relative links, after removing dupe dir if present, but if this makes an incorrect link, then you need to
set the absolute link manually as no prepending of http://www.domain.com/portal/forums is done on absolute links.

@allstar55: look in the following directories via FTP:

• /images/469/
• /images/469/large
• /images/469/medium
• /images/469/small

Is the max still 96 KB for the image?

[allstar55]

@allstar55: look in the following directories via FTP:
/images/469/
/images/469/large
/images/469/medium
/images/469/small
Is the max still 96 KB for the image?

Here you can see it