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

[RichieBoy67]

I just realized my album images are not showing up in Internet Explorer. I am not sure if this mod is the cause. Can someone else with the latest Vb4 check and see if you are seeing the images in IE?

Thanks,
Rich

[Videx]

Originally Posted by RichieBoy67

I just realized my album images are not showing up in Internet Explorer. I am not sure if this mod is the cause. Can someone else with the latest Vb4 check and see if you are seeing the images in IE?

Thanks,
Rich

Not sure which site you want us to look at; the one in your sig doesn't seem to be a forum. FWIW, this all seems to work on our forum (Shannondale.org) in IE.

[RichieBoy67]

Originally Posted by Videx

Not sure which site you want us to look at; the one in your sig doesn't seem to be a forum. FWIW, this all seems to work on our forum (Shannondale.org) in IE.

Thanks,

I actually meant I wanted you to see if it was working for you guys on your sites.

My site is musclemecca.com if you want to check

[RichieBoy67]

## I tried a few simple things to fix this but nothing has worked yet.

I tried uninstalling this plug, deleting the files and reinstalling. I also tried a standard style.

All the other images on the site work fine in ie. It is just the albums.

[Videx]

Originally Posted by RichieBoy67

Thanks,

I actually meant I wanted you to see if it was working for you guys on your sites.

My site is musclemecca.com if you want to check

Confirmed here too. Okay in Chrome, but in IE 11 there are X's in place of the images. You don't have something odd like vbseo installed? Anyway, I guess you've already tried at least disabling all your other mods?

[RichieBoy67]

Thanks for the reply mate.

No Vbseo installed and yes I tried disabling all the mods in the config.. no dice. I completely removed this mod and reinstalled as well.

[Videx]

My last guess would be some obscure server permission error. If it's a hosted server, contact your host. I think in the latest version of vb you can get full error reporting to come back on and maybe that will give you a clue.

[RichieBoy67]

I have a dedicated server. I have tried a couple things there but have tested albums on another Vbulletin forum I host and they work fine there on ie.

I am certain this is something simple I am over looking. I am going to enable the errors though to see what is going on but I see nothing in error logs out of the ordinary.

[K4GAP]

Works great on 4.2.2 right out of the box.

[SoHelpMe]

[QUOTE=VertoPB;2452551]Hi,

Second step:
Create a new menu in the navbar: AdminCP->Options->Navigation Manager->Forum->Add menu / Title: Gallery - Show Permission Name: member (or leave this field empty if you want anyone, registered or not, can see it)

---I am trying to follow the instructions from VertoPB above from page 52 of this topic and my vB 4.2.2 is insisting on having a URL entry for this Gallery menu/tab item. How do I get past this?