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

[Alibass]

Originally Posted by taxman

Did you have it already installed when you upgraded to 4.1.0 ?

Will not install for me,,, also states "incompatable"

Yes I updated from 4.0.8.

Have you tried editing the product xml file and changing the maxversion to 4.2 and see if it will install?

[taxman]

Chrs buddy.. it was set at 4.1

As you said, set it at 4.2 and it works fine... Thanks a lot.

[aquabid]

Is it possible to have the albums sorted by username versus last update?

[Alibass]

Working good on 4.1.0 PL2

But when guests click on thumbnails they can view the full pic. Is there a fix for this?
Looked threw posts and did not see anything or possibly overlooked it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[ehsanix]

how can tag for images in galley?

[indyonline]

nice mod. works great! Thank you for this.
I have added it successfully and it shows in my menu bar not tab but it only shows on the forum page in VB publisher suite. How can I make it display on the CMS home page and blog pages navigation too?
Thanks.

[mkv]

Nice mod, really like it! Good job.

However I have a question. I find this "issue" a bit annoying.

When our users upload pictures into their albums our moderators need to moderate them.
If the user recently created the album and uploaded for example 10 pictures in it it doesnt get a "cover" automaticly. This results in that the album doesnt show in "albumall" or "latest album".

Anyone have an idea what I can do?

/M

[Davey-UK]

Not compatible with VB 4.1 unfortunately.

I get the following error on import

The following dependencies were not met:

   1. This product is not compatible with version 4.1.0 of vBulletin. (Compatible starting with 4.0.2 / Incompatible with 4.1 and greater)

[TalkVirginia]

Originally Posted by Davey-UK

Not compatible with VB 4.1 unfortunately.

I get the following error on import

The following dependencies were not met:

   1. This product is not compatible with version 4.1.0 of vBulletin. (Compatible starting with 4.0.2 / Incompatible with 4.1 and greater)

I'm getting this too.

[Alibass]

Originally Posted by TalkVirginia

I'm getting this too.

Read my post 371 and the one right under it.