Photopost to vb/Home Intergration v1.7

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// Photopost 4.6.6 to vbhome/forum Intergration (vb2.0 & vbadvanced 1.01 vb3 Intergation
// Created by PixelFX & Respective Developers
// Version 2.0 in design
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NEW UPDATE COMING: I've got this system working with vb3.o and v2.0

New Credits:
Updated Hack: PixelFX
New Thumbnail Includer: Midnightz
And Thanks to everyone below.

Update Coming Soon!

INTRODUCTION:
After searching the web and a few sites, I wanted a way to show single / latest gallery images on my
vbhome/vbulletin forum. This hack, was setup in hopes to help others get a similar result to get gallery
images from photopost to show up on your vbhome/vbulletin front page. The concepts for this hack came is
from a combo of locations, as well as adding some of my own custom hacks and templates.

NOTE 4 vbindex: This hack should work with both vbhome & vbindex, the only difference for vbindex is you would make changes to the vbindex index.php not the vbhome index.php, also you would setup templates for use in the vbindex templates rather vbhome. Make sence? I'll rate a seperate txt for that soon.

CREDITS:
- Grunt for phpinclude,
- Matt Chroust for thumbincluder.php,
- Craigr for helping at vbhome, with support
- TECK for vbhome 4.2
- Enthusiast, Inc. for PhotoPost 4.1.0, RC1 & community
- Jelsoft Enterprises Limited for vbulletin 2.3.2
- vBulletin.org for support learning how to hack vb
- PixelFX for vb/home templates & some custom php vb hacking below.
- midnightz for updated thumbnail includer (see end of thread)

HACK ADDONS:
Forum home addon - Mickie D Follow Link below for addon download
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=123

Catigory Exclude Addon - PixelFX Credits in zip file,
http://files.pixelfx.ca/catigory_exclude_addon1.0.zip

LICENCE INFO:
To get all required files you need licenced copy of vbulletin v2.2.x / 2.3.2 & photopost pro 4.1.0+ /

I'm working on version for vb3.0 gamma/RC1 as well, which is in testing

FILES NEED:
vBulletin 2.3.3+ (installed) Tested on 2.2.x as well
PhotoPost 4.51+ (Choose to intergrate with vbulletin when you install photopost.)
vBHome 4.2+ (clean install)
thumbincluder.php tweaked, and link to database.
thumbincluder.txt modified by pixelfx for catigory addon - coming soon.
thumbincluder.txt version 2, by midnightz

I take no credit for the thumbnailincluder.php which is needed for this hack to run. Although I have made edits
to it, for my next version of this script

LOCATION OF THUMBNAIL-INCLUDER:
(requires membership account and licence for photopost)
http://www.photopost.com/members/for...threadid=26550

for the thumbnailincluder11.txt rename to what ever ya want file.php be sure you set varables to your liking.
Then upload, To your gallery's root directory. I've found you can use multiple files and it works fine See addon coming soon for that.

Example: http://www.url.com/gallery/thumbnailincluder.php

SUPPORT:
I will only support this hack on this thread currently. aka here,
if you would like to create addons please PM me
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=53539

BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING BACK UP YOUR FORUM DATABASE & GALLERY,
FILES ETC. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.
I've tested this on my two vb sites, and it works awesome. However I can't predict what it
will do on sites that are heavely hacked.

LAST UPDATED:
December 7th,2003

(note that update news info can befound at end of thread)

Note: This should work if you edit the forum/index.php but only if you want images to show up in
your forums rather than your vbhome. This is something I need to test more, so will post alternate update shortly for that.

NOTE: this version is for vbhome 4.2 to php 4.1.0 intergration, again addon will be posted soon.
NOTE: Text File Download at buttom of file,

MAIN DEMO:
NA - Coming soon.. for version 2.0

COMING SOON:
Addon - News & Specific Image Catigory on it's own page.
Example of addon:
- Supports Random Images
- Supports Recent Images
- Supports Most Popular Images

This works with main hack, and or sub pages (coming soon!)

TESTED ON:
vbulletin v2.3.2 Final, Photopost 4.1.0 RC2 , and vbhome v4.2 (clean install)

PLEASE CLICK INSTALL:
If you use this hack, thanks

News Update: [12.04.2004]
I'm still working on a vb 3.0.3/pp4.8.5 version of this. Its also got a unique gallery/news system with the update. It's taken a while for me to get it out as I've been swamped with contracts, but I hope to release update soon.

[gmarik]

PixelFx, can't wait. Friday or Saturday?

[Russ_T]

I can't wait either Hopefully it might work with my vBulletin 2.3, vBHome 4.2 and Photopost 4.0 combo

[Smoothie]

PixelFx-

Actually, you can choose a specific category, instead of excluding all but one category. This is good for my site, where all I want is one category to be displayed

[PixelFx]

Vbhome 4.2 / Photopost 4.0 / vb 2.3.0 work well together... I just did a clean install and everything seems to be working well.

I just have to make install script, with some easter eggs

Demo: updated
http://www.pixelfx.ca/index.php

[Guidster]

Here is what I did to suit my needs running 2.2.9, Photopost 4.0 and vBPortal:

On the vBportal homepage, I simply added a center block, selected php script as the type and then added the following line:
include("http://www.allthingsmoto.com/photopost/thumbincluder.php");


I decided to add the thumbnails to the forumdisplay template in lieu of an already busy forum home page, so I added the following to forumdisplay.php:

// +--------------------------------------------------------------
// | Photopost to vbhome Link
// +--------------------------------------------------------------
$templatesused.= 'home_gallery';
eval( '$gallery = "' . gettemplate( 'home_gallery' ) . '";' );


This is identical to what Pixels instructions said to add to the index.php of forumhome.

I created a custom home_gallery template, added the postthumbnail line in the phpinclude template and then called the $posthumbnail from the home_gallery template. Works like a charm!

If you want to see yet another example of these modifications, you can visit www.allthingsmoto.com for the vBportal integration and http://www.allthingsmoto.com/forums/...hp?forumid=114 to see the thumbnails on my forumdisplay.

Photopost and VB are an awesome pair indeed!

[PixelFx]

yup I just updated the install doc I'm working on to include vb 2.3.0 and photopost 4.0.1 should be up soon.

[Intex]

PixelFX - great hack!

How easy would this be to implement with say myvbindex which is another cool homepage hack by Tigga on vb.org.

I'm also running photopost 4.

Thx.

[PixelFx]

HACK UPDATED IN FIRST POST, v1.5 posted, works with vbulletin 2.30, photopost 401, and vbhome 4.2.

Things to do,

Working on Txt File Install, for the above, txt file install for vbindex, vbportal, support.

[Intex]

Hi PixelFX - I tried this for myvbindex under advisement and everything went according to plan apart from when you actually view the homepage it shows 'QUERY FAILED'. I believe this is due to the relative path being incorrect for the images and data directory.

I'm on a windows system and tried various paths. My apache install is c:\program files\apache group\apache\htdocs (htdocs is the web root). Any ideas on what this should be?

Thx.

[PixelFx]

I've tested this on linux box. But not on windows. Possible sugguestion would be to try

your relitive path as

"c:\program files\apache group\apache\htdocs\forum"

or how ever it's setup on your system.

do you have phpmyadmin setup on your system? I've been debating on setting up an apache test site on my local host as well. If I do then I'll update the txt file for windows as well. If anyone has a windows local box setup, can ya please post here as well.

not sure if that helps but I'll message around with it on my xp system and see what i come up with :P