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

[Videx]

Originally Posted by HCGB

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.

Negative. I just fired up Chrome (Not Logged In) and went to both Album or Picture Gallery and I can click the thumbnails and get pictures.

[Webbstre]

Originally Posted by Videx

Negative. I just fired up Chrome (Not Logged In) and went to both Album or Picture Gallery and I can click the thumbnails and get pictures.

Ditto, I just tested this as well.

I have a request for this mod though. I would like the ability to Sticky certain albums to the top of the albums page, so that my users can know what albums are endorsed and maintained by the staff.

[Scalemotorcars]

For those using the Tab xml and your having problems seeing the links, try using this in your plugin. Copy and replace the entire code for the tab plugin and of course you can manually edit the font color values.

Im sure its not the best way but it works in FF, IE, Chrome and Avant browsers.

PHP Code:

// change $allowguests from 'true' to 'false' if you do NOT want guests to see the gallery menu

    $allowguests = true; 

/******** NO EDITS below here! ************/
/******************************************/

if ($show['member'] OR $allowguests)
{
    global $vbphrase, $vbulletin, $stylevar;

    $sess = $vbulletin->session->vars['sessionurl_q'];
        $template_hook[navtab_end] .= '
        <li class="popupmenu">
            <a href="javascript://" class="popupctrl navtab">
                ' . $vbphrase['gallery'] . '<img src="' . vB_Template_Runtime::fetchStyleVar('imgdir_misc') . '/arrow.png" align="' . vB_Template_Runtime::fetchStyleVar('right') . '" />
            </a>
            <ul class="popupbody popuphover" style="color:' . vB_Template_Runtime::fetchStyleVar('navbar_tab_linkhover_color') . ';font:' . vB_Template_Runtime::fetchStyleVar('navbar_tab_font') . '">
            <li></li>
                <li><a href="albumall.php?' . $sess . '"><font color="#333333">' . $vbphrase['album_gallery'] . '</font></a></li>
                <li><a href="picall.php?' . $sess . '"><font color="#333333">' . $vbphrase['picture_gallery'] . '</font></a></li>
                ' . ($show['member'] ? '
                <li><a href="album.php?' . $sess . '&do=latest"><font color="#333333">' . $vbphrase['latest_albums'] . '</font></a></li>
                <li><a href="album.php?' . $sess . '&u=' . $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] . '"><font color="#333333">' . $vbphrase['my_albums'] . '</font></a></li>
                <li><a href="album.php?' . $sess . '&do=addalbum"><font color="#333333">' . $vbphrase['add_album'] . '</font></a></li>
                ' : '') . '
            </ul>
        </li>';
} 


[fayax]

This is an excellent mod but since I am no coder I will wait till an updated version with no major issues comes up. That way I dont run into the particular menu issues mentioned here.

Waiting...

Tagged.

[uglyduck]

Originally Posted by HCGB

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.

Thank you!! Yes, it was the obvious, lol.

[fluentdesigns]

Anyone know why after I run the rebuild thumbnails a bunch of album picture covers are now missing? The albums still work and so do the images in the albums but the covers are completely gone and all I get is the alt tag showing "picture"

[ArchAngelz]

Can I ask how I can :

(a) Change the default navtab name from "Gallery" to something else, say "Photo Gallery"

(b) Change the position of the navtab; I'm currently using the following to manage my tabs and this one results in it always going to the extreme right.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=233629

[HCGB]

Originally Posted by ArchAngelz

Can I ask how I can :

(a) Change the default navtab name from "Gallery" to something else, say "Photo Gallery"

(b) Change the position of the navtab; I'm currently using the following to manage my tabs and this one results in it always going to the extreme right.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=233629

Just use Tabs Add to put the tab on the menu bar instead of importing the included tabs product - that way you can put it where you wish and call it whatever you want.

The phrases for this mod can be found in AdminCP>Languages and Phrase-> ... and search for "Gallery"

[fluentdesigns]

Originally Posted by fluentdesigns

Anyone know why after I run the rebuild thumbnails a bunch of album picture covers are now missing? The albums still work and so do the images in the albums but the covers are completely gone and all I get is the alt tag showing "picture"

Still haven't got any help on this. Anyone that can jump in and give me some kind of solution? I have rebuilt thumbnails 3 times already. Tried switching album cover to another photo. Still nothing works. Getting frustrated

[HCGB]

Originally Posted by fluentdesigns

Still haven't got any help on this. Anyone that can jump in and give me some kind of solution? I have rebuilt thumbnails 3 times already. Tried switching album cover to another photo. Still nothing works. Getting frustrated

It could be many things =- a few things to check are:

Can you view the album cover thumbnail as a picture thumbnail (in other words, does the picture thumbnail actually exist) - check in the picture gallery and in the users profile album gallery? I don't mean the full-size picture - just the thumbnail.

Check the HTML code for the page in the browser - what image URL is used? Check that it points to a valid file on your site. If their is no URL for the missing image then it means that the thumbnail file itself is missing.

Lastly, I would check the database if you are comfortable with doing this (extract the filedataid field from the album row for a missing image then use it to get the thumbnail_filesize from the filedata row. Te thumbnail_filesize value should be non-zero if the image has a thumbnail available.