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

[MuhammadC]

Originally Posted by HCGB

They should be white then yellow when hovered over - they use the standard vB drop down menus stylevars. There must be something modified in your installation (custom style maybe?). Try checking the CSS for popupbody popuphover and the style variables navbar_tab_linkhover_color and navbar_tab_font - one or more of them must have been been modified.

Post a link to your site if you are still having probs.

I am having the same problem: http://www.countrybynet.com/forums/forum.php

[mgcom]

I fixed it by editing navbar_tab_linkhover_color

Cheers

[Gosef]

thanks a lot

[nikosb]

cheers

installed

[adders]

Installed - seems like a nice mod.

One question. On my site the gallery looks a bit messy, pics overlap etc.

Any ideas?

http://www.astronomican.com/album.php?albumid=69

Cheers

[Videx]

Originally Posted by adders

One question. On my site the gallery looks a bit messy, pics overlap etc.

Custom skin to start with. But no point in posting a link if you require registration to see anything.

[Xencored]

WOW awesome mad thanks alot mate :up:

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

here to many more like this

[Bansheebob]

Installed but I have no permission to make new album? checked my usergroup (admin) permissions and I should be able to add an album. I dont get it.

[HCGB]

Originally Posted by Bansheebob

Installed but I have no permission to make new album? checked my usergroup (admin) permissions and I should be able to add an album. I dont get it.

Album (or picture) creation has nothing to do with this mod - it's just an image viewer. You must have vB permissions set incorrectly some place.

Originally Posted by adders

On my site the gallery looks a bit messy, pics overlap etc.

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

[Bansheebob]

Originally Posted by HCGB

Album (or picture) creation has nothing to do with this mod - it's just an image viewer. You must have vB permissions set incorrectly some place.

Yes, I had albums turned off under "user profile options'

Question, how do you set it so the newest photos appear under the forums as thumbnails?