Add-On Releases - Picture and Album Gallery

Picture and Album Gallery for vB4

This is a simple mod written out of frustration with the lack of such a basic feature in vb4 (and vb3, etc....)

Features:
Adds a Gallery drop-down menu to the nav bar OR to the navtab which allows browsing AND searching of all pictures and albums on your site.

The search function searches the album title, album description, picture caption AND username.

Note: If guest permission AdminCP->Usergroups->UserGroup Manager->Unregistered/Not Logged In->Can View Albums is "yes" then they will be able to browse album and picture thumbnails - they may NOT be able to view the full-size pictures. To hide the gallery menu from guest see Settings below.

The gallery and menu is phrased.

Tested with Vbulletin 4.0.2/3 (note: earlier versions have not been tested and are not supported) AND vBadvanced 4 beta1.

Settings:
None are needed - it does what it says on the tin .

AdminCP->Options->User Profile:Album Options "Pictures Per Page" and "Albums Per Page" control the number of thumbnails displayed per page in each gallery type.

If you get images overlapping the borders then you have inconsistent thumbnail sizes - you need to:
AdminCP->Maintenance->Update Counters->Rebuild Attachment Thumbnails

If you want to hide the Gallery menu from guests then edit the Gallery navbar (or navtab) popup menu plugin and change $allowguests = from true to false

Installation

1. Unzip the download package and copy the contents of the UPLOAD folder into your forum folder.
2. Go to the VB AdminCP->Plugins & Products click "Manage Products". The click "Add/ImportProduct" at the bottom of the page.
3. Click "Browse" button and point to the product-gallery-(etc).XML file included in this ZIP package.
4. Click "Import"
5. Once the gallery import is complete, click "Add/Import Product" again and select EITHER product_gallery_navtab-xxx.xml OR product_gallery_navbar-xxx.xml depending on where you want the gallery menu to appear (navbar or navtab).

... all done

Updates

To update from an older version you MUST uninstall the product (admincp->manage products: delete Picture and Album Gallery). Then re-install as above.

v1.08
tested on vb4.0.3
v1.07
Fixed navtab menu - picture and album URLS swapped
Converted navtab/bar into products to make installation easier.
v1.06
Due to popular demand added navtab drop down menu (with help from TimberFloorAu )
Cleaned up code and templates
v1.05
Phrased menu items - upgrade is not required unless you use other languages.
v1.04b
fixed database connection issue
deleted unused template from product xml
v1.03b
Changed permissions to allow guests to view thumbnail galleries
Added phrasing for main gallery code.
Removed navbar template - replaced by plug-in code
Changed album display template from albumbit to album_latestbit (it works better!)
Various template mods to clean up display
v1.02b
Wasn't remembering search query between pages.

This is my first "proper" product so comment/criticism/etc is welcome

John

[x626xblack]

Use this in conjuction with this add on and you have a tab that takes you directly to albums instead of having to use the drop down.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...highlight=Tabs.

My site has both running and it works great
www.gamergodz.com click the albums tab

[mustang02]

Originally Posted by kevinfx

Me too, unable to view any links from Gallery dropdown as guess

It would be nice if the links worked so a guest could see them. I too get the same error.

No User specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator

[Markos]

great mod is there anyway to get it up on the navar where it says home and forum on your screen shot ?

[HCGB]

Originally Posted by Markos

great mod is there anyway to get it up on the navar where it says home and forum on your screen shot ?

Posts #38 and #61 show one way to do it (there are many!).

[Markos]

thanks that did the trick

[VonDoom]

Thanks for the update great work again

[PixelFx]

would it be possible for you to add child style support to albums? And or be able to add something to exclude albums per style, or is that out of the scope of your mod?

[oddmud]

Updated, love it.

[Reef Man]

Worked perfect for me on 4.0.2 PL1

[HCGB]

Originally Posted by PixelFx

would it be possible for you to add child style support to albums? And or be able to add something to exclude albums per style, or is that out of the scope of your mod?

I've no idea what you're talking about I'm afraid! If you give me a link to something that explains the issue I'll take a look at it (can't find anything in any vB docs - no surprise there )