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.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

If you like this mod please hit the button to the right ---->

Please remember to click the, button to the right if you installed the mod ---->

What does 'Marking As Installed' do ?

* It helps you to stay on top of updates - members who have installed modifications will be notified by us whenever new updates are available.

* For security issues - vbulletin.org will contact all members who have installed a modification whenever a security issue is brought to their attention.

* Marking a modification as installed also helps us know how many people are using our work, giving us extra incentive to provide more features and new modifications.

We appreciate the support!
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Priority support & Product Demos available at: http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Translations available @ our forum
Support for translations handled by the translator in its respective threads only.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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
  
  ACP
• 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

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of all pages which includes:

• 1 Link to DragonByte Technologies homepage
• 1 Link to Product Description page of this modification

[AusPhotography]

Some questions...

1. Is there a importer for Photopost vBGallery? (edit: yes!)

2. Will there be a vB5 version? (and upgrade from vB4)

We will want to upgrade to vB5 eventually, happy to buy the pro version!

Thanks, Kym

[bzcomputers]

Originally Posted by ricktas

Some questions...

2. Will there be a vB5 version? (and upgrade from vB4)

Yes, they are already working on it.

Straight from DBTech:

"Now that #vB5 Connect is officially on sale we have finalized our pricing structure regarding our modifications on vB5 as they are ported:

Upgrade: You may upgrade your existing vB3/4 license to a vB5 license for 25% of the cost of a new license. For most mods this will be in the $10-20 range. You will no longer be able to run the product on a vB3/4 site. This is necessary to cover the cost of porting the modification (many mods will require extensive rewriting) as well as the extra support load.

Discount License: You may purchase a new vB5 license of any mod you currently own a vB3/4 version of for 50% off. This allows you to use the mod on a vB3/4 site AND a vB5 site at the same time should you so wish.

New Licenses: New licenses purchased will be either vB3/4 or vB5 only. There are no plans to change the pricing at the moment, the vB5 versions will cost the same as the existing vB3/4 versions."

[AusPhotography]

Ok! so I buy vB4 now, and pay 25% extra later when vB5 is ready !! All good!

[lazytown]

Will the pictures uploaded to this be included in the Activity Stream?

Also, ever thought of having a gallery to view attachments in posts (perhaps organized by forum section)?

[ejbreeze]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

Check the permissions on the child folders, the 1/1/5/full and 1/1/5/thumb ones.
Also, what version are you running? The postbit here says 1.1.3?

Dylan

I removed Gallery and reinstalled it. Here is what I noticed has happened. The child folder 1/1 isn't created until I actually try to upload a image. The upload fails until I change the permissions on 1/1/ 1/1/full 1/1/thumbnails 1/1/wm all to 0777. At this point the uploads succeed.

Then I log out and sign in as a different user. I try to upload a image and it fails once again due to permissions. I check the folder structure and see 1/1/5 1/1/5/full 1/1/5/thumbnails and 1/1/5/wm have now been created. I changed the permissions on all to 0777 and now that user can upload.

I am using vb 4.2.0 patch 2 with your gallery 1.2.4 Why must I change permissions each time a new user uploads to Gallery? By default Gallery is setting the permissions of newly created folders to 0043. I am guessing importing vb albums failed because of this also. Is there a way to set permissions so the correct permission will be given by default? Thanks again.

[Alibass]

You might want to check with your server company, my folders default to 0755 and pics 0644

[ejbreeze]

I don't think its a server issue since this is the only mod that I have a problem with regarding permissions. I see there is a new post a couple back with the same problem. Once you set the correct permissions the mod works great for that user.

[Alibass]

Well don't know what to tell ya mate, I'm running 4.2.0 PL2 and 1.2.4 and I haven't had those kind of issues.

[ejbreeze]

Also noticed if you try to upload a image larger than allowed you get a non skin error warning then a broken image icon is placed in your album and you must go back and manually delete it.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by vissa

Will the pictures uploaded to this be included in the Activity Stream?

Also, ever thought of having a gallery to view attachments in posts (perhaps organized by forum section)?

They aren't included in the activity stream. I'll have to look into that on the next feature release.

There is already a good mod on here that works with the existing gallery, it might work with images added to the forum posts.

Dylan