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

[tspasev]

It works great by me ... but I want to put ads from the right side when the user looks the pictures one by one. Is there any solution to make some custom position because there is not a place in ads management.
I'm using 4.0.2 version of vBulletin.
Thanks ... I think someone will tell me what have I suppose to do.

[jiffylb1]

Have a small problem. Installation went smooth no problem. I am sure I am just overseeing it but I when hovering over the gallery button gets the drop down menu. But when the drop down menu comes up only whatever option i have the mouse over is readable or the font color is the same as back ground color in the drop down menu. Were to I change the font color on the drop down menu so that I can read all options an dnot only when hovering over it..Thanks all

[HCGB]

Originally Posted by jiffylb1

Have a small problem. Installation went smooth no problem. I am sure I am just overseeing it but I when hovering over the gallery button gets the drop down menu. But when the drop down menu comes up only whatever option i have the mouse over is readable or the font color is the same as back ground color in the drop down menu. Were to I change the font color on the drop down menu so that I can read all options an dnot only when hovering over it..Thanks all

The base class is popupbody popuphover but you have a custom style with strange flashing hover text so I don't know what style system is being used.

[Scalemotorcars]

Has anyone been able to get the CSS right on the drop down in all browsers? I was up until 4am trying to get it right and still no luck.

Firefox it works fine
Internet Explorer is seems fine in ie8 but ie7 is all blown out.
In Avant its almost the same as ie7 but more exaderated and expands the full width of the forum.

I know it has something to do with the CSS for the popup where width is wet to width:auto

Im just about ready to scrap the entire CSS and as phrased and start over. ( no offense to the Dev this is a great mod its just VB isn't exactly browser friendly with all their work yet ).

Any help would be great. :up:

[furst]

thanks works nicely except there is no line under my tab like my other tabs, any suggestions?

http://www.bowrd.com/content.php

[fragov]

What have to be done to make guest see all albums too? Now it show an error.

[uglyduck]

installed on 4.0.3, I uploaded the two files to my forum folder and imported "product-gallery-108.xml".

I do not have a Gallery item on the navbar or navtab but I can manually browse to the albums by pointing directly to album.php or picall.php. Did I missing something that keeping the link/dropdown funtion from appearing in the navbar.

thx

[Videx]

"It doesn't show on my navbar/tab" is a hard question to answer, especially if you're using custom themes. You can try reimporting, using overwrite and making sure to import the correct xml. You may just have to learn how to make a navbar tab and put it there manually. Be sure to read back through this thread for possible solutions.

If Guests can't see albums then it's probably a permissions issue in Usergroup Manager>edit Unregistered>User Album Permissions.

[uglyduck]

I am not getting a link to the Gallery in the navbar. I've tried reimporting with overwrite allowed but still nothing. I think you're probably correct and I'll have to manually add a tab or link.

This is using the 1.08 xml

Not having any permissions issues.

thanks,

[HCGB]

Originally Posted by uglyduck

I am not getting a link to the Gallery in the navbar. I've tried reimporting with overwrite allowed but still nothing. I think you're probably correct and I'll have to manually add a tab or link.

This is using the 1.08 xml

Not having any permissions issues.

thanks,

I hate to state the obvious but you did install the navbar/tab products didn't you (step 5 - check if it/they show in the plug in manager)?

If they show then the only reason why it wouldn't work is that the navbar template doesn't have the template hooks for the menu bar (i.e. it's a hacked template).

By default, vB doesn't allow guests to view album images - this behaviour is not changeable. This mod does allow guests to view album and picture thumbnails provided the permissions are set properly.