Social Group and Album Enhancements - All Albums

All Albums 2.5

This hack lets you view an index of all user albums on one page. Looks like a user's index but just has all users instead of just one.

You have to upload the all_albums.php file to your root vBulletin folder. This is the file that you have to access to see all the albums.

ENJOY!

Version 1.1 (03/06/08):

• PHP file only.
• Doesn't show albums that a user can't view.

Version 1.2 (03/09/08):

• PHP file only.
• Fixed Image count if you have vb3.7.0 Beta 6.

Version 2.0 (03/15/08):

• Product MUST be installed now.
• Shows username
• Phrases are normal now.

Version 2.1 (03/19/08):

• PHP file only.
• Fixed Image count if you have vb3.7.0 RC 1.

Version 2.2 (03/21/08):

• Cache Templates
• Fixed some issues with extra queries running.
• Added "Add Album" links.
• album_all_album_list template updated.
• File updated.

Version 2.3 (05/05/08):

• Changed definition of THIS_SCRIPT to all_albums
• Link in navbar is now phrase along with a template.
• all_albums phrase switched to global phrase
• Added all albums link to navbits when on an album page.
• Added who's online location.
• Added sort
• New option: Default Sortfield
• New option: Default Sortorder
• Added link to quick links.
• New option: Show Navbar Link
• New Option: Show Quick-Links Link
• New Option: Show Link in Navbits of Albums

Version 2.4 (10/24/08):

• Added Search

Version 2.5 (10/24/08):

• Added Search text right near search box
• Fixed a prefix bug when using search.
• If a user knows that to put into a URL to do a search, if search is turned off, it will not work.

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[xyzmary2001]

Originally Posted by DDIG

Whould this not be better? I use vbGallery, which re-uses the navbar template. Only the relative path then becomes ./gallery/all_albums.php which is incorrect off course.
The all_albums.php should not be in / but in /forums if you have vBulletin installed in /forums.

I also use vbPortal which onfortunately cannot use the template hook. So in order to have it work for vbPortal as well, I added the code below to vbp_navbar template:

This way it works in vbportal and vbgallery as well. Hope this can be of help

jkoyybvio

[DDIG]

I am a very beginner and I do have this "small" problem with the navbar. Still, I do not have any idea where to find the vbp_navbar and what exactly to do. Please, explain to me... I am sorry to be a nuisance, but...

vbp_navbar is a vbPortal template, if you don't have vbPortal CMS installed you can ignore this. If you do have vbPortal the change is needed in order to add the all_albums link to vbPortal navbar as well.

The $vbpoptions[bbdir] prefix is needed if you use vbGallery, otherwise the vbGallery navbar link points to the wrong directory. If you don't use vbGallery you can ignore this too.

[xyzmary2001]

I have portal and I have all albums. Still, I have no idea where to find the template.

[DDIG]

When you open vBulletin Admin CP, go to Styles and Templates - Style Manager, select the style you use, click on the < > button, expand All Template Groups (< >), there you should be able to find the vbp_ templates if you have vbPortal installed.

But I see you use vbAdvanced, in which case I don't know the template names (don't know if it is needed in that case too).

[bryanb]

Originally Posted by xyzmary2001

....Bryanb, have you tried on vBulletin Options - User Profile Options - to see if "all albums" is active? Then, if it is, go to UserGroups manager and give persmissions to every group, by Edit Usergroup. There you cand find the option regarding the permissions to have or see albums. Hope this will work, I solved the problem this way.

No that's not it. Banned users are not allowed to have albums - they can't even access the forum. The problem is that their albums remain active. Everyone who can view albums can see the banned users' listed on the all_albums.php file.

I had to go in and manually delete these albums.

For a wish list item - it would be nice to have an enable/disable user group ID as an option for the administration panel. Thanks!

[droid101]

Hey... I added all_albums.php to that little nifty list in the vbAdvanced settings so that the navbar link will work on the home page, but it doesn't seem to be working.

It works for all the other junk I have up there... any thoughts?

[bertwrld]

Would it be possible to add an option to select how many albums per page to show?

[PHILIPS-08]

thanx good mod i installed

[popular]

how bout adding a hit count?

[trilogy33]

Installed, works fine under 3.7.0 BUT...
Now my vBGarage 3.5.0 has vanished from the navbar, erm..help please

EDIT: No worries. Have simply move the vBGarage link elsewhere.