Major Additions - [DBTech] Dragonbyte Gallery v1 (vB4)

Dragonbyte Gallery is a fully functional gallery system addon for your forum that will allow your users to create their own photo albums to store and display their images. You can run multiple instance of the gallery on the same site with the same files, yet have a completely different look and function because of the modular sytem it was built on. Users can customize how their gallery profile is displayed on each instance.

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Major Features

Multiple Instances You can run an unlimited number instances of the gallery on the same forum with same set of files! Each instance can have a different look and feel to it, and with enough work can have a completely different function because of the system we built it on.

AJAX integration We used AJAX wherever we could to help reduce the page reloads

Automatic resizing and thumbnail creation As long as your server can handle it, the users can upload whatever size pictures they want. The gallery will control the size displayed and stored, and will even create a thumbnail, all automatically. Users no longer have to worry about resizing their images to fit what your forum specifies. If you do not have a server with the power to resize images (GD image library can get pretty memory intensive) then you can set the gallery to reject images that do not fit into your size criteria.

User Albums Users can create their own image albums to organize and display sets of their images. Albums can also be set to hidden and/or password protected. So users who want to have images for only certain friends or not visible to anyone else at all can easily organize them.


Complete Feature List (Lite)

• Albums
  • Public or Hidden - Images in a hidden album will not be visible to users other then that owner
  • Album icon will display latest image added to it
• Images
  • Image paths are hidden through the php files, so it keeps users from browsing your image folder without going through your page
  • Camera images will be prepopulated with camera information from jpeg images
  • Images resized and thumbnails created automatically on upload
• Comments and Rating
  • Users can comment on individual images
  • Users can rate images
  • Users can comment on user profiles
  • Easily integrates with Advanced Post Thanks/Likes mod
  • OOB integration for twitter, google+, pinterest and facebook!
• Can upload multiple files with one selector (HTML5 browsers only)
• Unique user profile per each gallery instance
• Users can customize their profile display per instance
• Can search by tags, title, description or owner
• CMS widget to display latest, highest rated or most viewed image or latest albums
• Forum sidebar block to display latest, highest rated or most viewed image or latest albums
• Forumhome box to display latest, highest rated or most viewed image or latest albums
• Subscribe to users and receive notification when new images are added
• A lot of AJAX integration to reduce page reloads
• vBShout Integration to create shouts on new images and comments
  
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• Gallery Settings
  • Multiple gallery instances
  • Mass import from ACP
  • Import from vB Albums and vB Gallery
  • Gallery Navigation Link Name
  • Modular layout so each instance can have it's own look and feel
  • Multiple layers of categories
  • Usergroup permissions per instance
    • Can View Gallery
    • Can Add Album
    • Can Upload Images
    • Can Rate Images
    • Can Delete Images
    • Can Delete Others Images
    • Can Comment
    • Can Delete Comments
    • Can Delete Others Comments
    • # of Albums
    • # of Images
  • Custom fields on image page
    • Single line text field
    • Multiple line textarea
    • Select Dropdown
    • Grouped Checkboxes
    • Grouped Radio buttons
• Gallery General Settings
  • Turn Gallery system on/off
  • CMS widget settings and number to display
  • Choose from two different styles of image views
  • Settings to change your gallery filename as well as ability to run it outside of the forum root directory!
• Gallery Image Settings
  • Change location of gallery images
  • Are images downloadable?
  • Choose to automatically resize images or force users to upload images within your set range
  • Image count settings
  • Enable/Disable twitter integration
  • Enable/Disable google+ integration
  • Enable/Disable pinterest integration
  • Enable/Disable facebook integration

Complete Feature List (Pro)

• Albums
  • Password Protected - Only users with the password will be able to view the albums images. They can see the thumbnail view but will not be able to browse to the album view
• Images
  • Admin can select if images will be watermarked or not.
  • Watermark can be dynicamic or Etched. Dynamic for powerful servers will little space, Etched for less powerful servers and more space.
  • Watermark can be an image or text, located in several different locations over the image
• Comments and Rating
  • Easily add/remove images as your favorites
  ACP
• Gallery Settings
  • Usergroup permissions per instance
    • Max Image Width
    • Max Image Height
    • Max Thumb Width
    • Max Thumb Height
• Gallery Watermark Settings
  • Select if you want to use text, image or no watermark
  • Select if you want to have dynamic or etched watermarks
  • Several different text watermark and image watermark positions to choose from

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[Alibass]

@DragonByte Tech

Dylan,

I've installed 1.2.1 lite on my 4.2.0.PL2 site and I am having an issue importing albums in the ACP and editing other members pics.
When I import albums for some reason each pic is created 3 times. I was going to try and delete the extras but I get an error stating I do not have permission which makes no sense being the admin and the only group ticked to doing anything with the mod.

Any suggestions where I can look or check to see why my pics are being triplicated and why I don't have permission to edit?

Thanks in advance.

Alibass

[My Hattiesburg]

I have a question about importing files from another gallery mod.

Years ago the previous forum owner had purchased PhotoPlog Pro as a gallery for the 3.8 version of our forum. However, a few months ago it quit working but we had plans to buy and install vb4.2, which we did.

We're looking to install another gallery, such as this one, but we'd like to be able to import all those pictures that were a part of the PhotoPlog gallery, and was wondering if this is possible, and if so, if it's possible to keep the same photo permissions. There's quite a few photos that only certain groups were able to view and I'd hate to import those photos and all of a sudden everybody on the whole forum would be able to see them.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by k6rikko

Hi all and hi dylan from Dragonbyte,

I run Vbulletin 4.1.5

i bought the PRO Version from the gallery yesterday.
after fighting a night long to keep the most running well

But i have some very important problems to resolve.

1. Password protection doesnt work, it works if click on the album yes, but it doesnt work on the pictures out from the album showing at latest pictures gallery home.
When you clickt them you can enlarge it and view it.

2. Add to favorites doesnt work, it still does nothing, counter says 0 after click it and profile dont have any favs saved.

3. cant moderate pictures, if i like to delete pictures from other users i got this message "We are sorry but you do not have permissions to edit this image. Please speak with the administrator if you feel this is an error"
(have set all to yes on usergroup admin options on the ACP)

4. An important option where i wish there is an solution .
Is it possible to link the albums to the VB user profiles like VB gallery ?
Profile visitors have to see if this member has albums up.

Please its really important, otherwise it was wasted money for me and the gallery is useless.

Thanks so much, overall a really nice add on ,
but i hope you can help me with this problems

Greets Rikko

Hi Rikko,
Can you please post this on our website? It's against the rules to help with pro mods on here.

Dylan

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Alibass

@DragonByte Tech

Dylan,

I've installed 1.2.1 lite on my 4.2.0.PL2 site and I am having an issue importing albums in the ACP and editing other members pics.
When I import albums for some reason each pic is created 3 times. I was going to try and delete the extras but I get an error stating I do not have permission which makes no sense being the admin and the only group ticked to doing anything with the mod.

Any suggestions where I can look or check to see why my pics are being triplicated and why I don't have permission to edit?

Thanks in advance.

Alibass

The delete error is something that will be fixed in the next version. Did you try editing the usergroup itself and setting the gallery Is Mod? setting to yes? It should allow you to edit/delete other users images if that is set.

I'm not sure why you'd be getting triplicates of the images. Could you give me a temp account that has access to both the gallery and albums?

Dylan

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by My Hattiesburg

I have a question about importing files from another gallery mod.

Years ago the previous forum owner had purchased PhotoPlog Pro as a gallery for the 3.8 version of our forum. However, a few months ago it quit working but we had plans to buy and install vb4.2, which we did.

We're looking to install another gallery, such as this one, but we'd like to be able to import all those pictures that were a part of the PhotoPlog gallery, and was wondering if this is possible, and if so, if it's possible to keep the same photo permissions. There's quite a few photos that only certain groups were able to view and I'd hate to import those photos and all of a sudden everybody on the whole forum would be able to see them.

Unfortunately I haven't used photoplog so I don't know what the table structure is like. It would be hard to import without access to the files and database layout.

As far as protection, there is no usergroup image level protection. The only protection setup is password protected albums and usergroup level categories. You could setup categories that only certain usergroups can see and move the images into there before you put it online.

Dylan

[Alibass]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

The delete error is something that will be fixed in the next version. Did you try editing the usergroup itself and setting the gallery Is Mod? setting to yes? It should allow you to edit/delete other users images if that is set.

I'm not sure why you'd be getting triplicates of the images. Could you give me a temp account that has access to both the gallery and albums?

Dylan

Hi Dylan,

I am truly sorry I swore I read all the posts on your mod. I was not aware about the add to the usergroups. I set it to yes and it's working fine, BUT I did notice if I want to change that persons album location I'm editing it only shows my albums to choose from and not everybody's.

I'll look for the delete fix in the next release and thank you.

I would be more than happy to give you site access but after hours of trying to import via the Gallery Import I gave up and downloaded everybody's pics manually, recreated their albums and FTP pics to folder 1 and used the ACP Mass Import feature to send the pics to the correct albums and categories.
So as it stands I've worked around my issue and wont be importing large amounts of pics at anyone time.

-A

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Alibass

Hi Dylan,

I am truly sorry I swore I read all the posts on your mod. I was not aware about the add to the usergroups. I set it to yes and it's working fine, BUT I did notice if I want to change that persons album location I'm editing it only shows my albums to choose from and not everybody's.

I'll look for the delete fix in the next release and thank you.

I would be more than happy to give you site access but after hours of trying to import via the Gallery Import I gave up and downloaded everybody's pics manually, recreated their albums and FTP pics to folder 1 and used the ACP Mass Import feature to send the pics to the correct albums and categories.
So as it stands I've worked around my issue and wont be importing large amounts of pics at anyone time.

-A

I've fixed the next version so that it will display the users albums and not yours when you edit another users image.

Dylan

[Alibass]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

I've fixed the next version so that it will display the users albums and not yours when you edit another users image.

Dylan

Thanks Dylan for your reply and fix. I found some other bugs but will wait for your next release to see if they have been corrected.


-A

[kether1]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

Yes, the next version has the option in the settings to soft delete images. If it is soft deleted it will not show up in the browse, search, user profile. The image will still be in linked threads and you can view the image if you directly link to it.

There is a section in the ACP to view the deleted images and either physically delete or reactivate them or obviously leave them alone

Dylan

Thank you! This is an amazing modification. I appreciate all the effort.

Kether

[gajinoz]

Just installed this and it's looking good but ........

Everything seemed to install OK and I went through the settings and then was able to access the gallery. So far so good.

I then created a category and album, then tried to upload a couple of pics into the album.

This BTW was done as Administrator.

When I tried to upload I got a page full of error messages. I've pasted some examples below, what do you think the problem might be?

Warning: imagecreatetruecolor() [function.imagecreatetruecolor]: Invalid image dimensions in [path]/dbtech/gallery/includes/class_core.php on line 771

Warning: imagecolorallocate() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in [path]/dbtech/gallery/includes/class_core.php on line 779

Warning: imagecolortransparent() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in [path]/dbtech/gallery/includes/class_core.php on line 780

Warning: imagealphablending() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in [path]/dbtech/gallery/includes/class_core.php on line 781

Warning: imagesavealpha() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in [path]/dbtech/gallery/includes/class_core.php on line 782

Warning: imagecopyresampled() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in [path]/dbtech/gallery/includes/class_core.php on line 786

Warning: imagepng() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in [path]/dbtech/gallery/includes/class_core.php on line 804

Warning: imagedestroy() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in [path]/dbtech/gallery/includes/class_core.php on line 808

Thanks.