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 StonePilot

Ok, I figured it out. In the language area. Searched and changed.

If you really want to be helpful, you should post a quick 'how to', including each step. Write it assuming a complete newbie is reading it. I've done this many times myself, so I know it won't take more than 5 minutes to do.

[HCGB]

Originally Posted by OldSchoolDSL

2nd the question

Nowt - just a dependency update for 4.1

[OldSchoolDSL]

Originally Posted by HCGB

Nowt - just a dependency update for 4.1

Thank you for the quick reply

[blankpage]

How can I change the white links on white background on Gallery tab? the links are not readable

thanks..

[Mark4865]

great add on installed thanks

[TosaInu]

Nice hack, works in 4.1.1.

When I upgraded to the Suite, I installed all new php files to a new directory on my server and didn't move the attachment folder over (I can do that later when the update is ok). Unfortunately, the Suite changed a lot. Result is that none of the old albums are used. I did ask Jelsoft about ways to fix it, but there were none.

It's several thousand pictures, and I'ld love to have them displayed one way or the other again.

Does anyone know more about the old style storage, the new one, what the upgrade to the suite changed (dropped) and what the options are to fix this?

[greg38]

Hello,

what is AddOns to this produckt and how i can delete/deactivate this.

[egdevilboy]

I am trying to find out how to change the color of the dropdown links (my site is black - need links white) as well as the hover background of the photo albums?

[adiosc]

I have the same problem...

[TosaInu]

That's a vbul doing afaik. Those members haven't enable an album cover. The administrator could edit the picture in that album, just anyone, and set that to album cover.