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

[Jake99]

I have installed this and it works great!! I have no complaint's about the plugin. I'm just wanting to know how can I make it so that when you click the gallery tab and the drop down box comes down I want to have more options there that takes you to a certain gallery and it only shows pictures from a specific place or thread/forum instead of showing just all of pictures on the website. Hope this makes since how I worded it.

Thanks, Alex

[MonkYZ]

Originally Posted by MonkYZ

Installed and rated 5 stars! Great mod!
Unfortunatelly i am having issues with some images. For some reason, they don't get resized (and that's really bad for huge images, as i am on a fixed style). For example:

http://www.consolegames.ro/forum/mem...ham-asylum-34/

http://www.consolegames.ro/forum/mem...d-donglu-yu-3/

Can you please tell me how to fix that?
Thanks in advance!

Originally Posted by Videx

You haven't told us anything about what you've already done to try to solve the problem. Or anything about your server and software versions. Can we assume you have:

• Read the entire thread and followed the suggestions in previous posts? Links please.
• Uninstalled this mod completely and gotten default albums to work right?

Sorry Videx for not giving full details. I am using vBulletin 4.1.3. The server is a dedicated one, dual Xeon with 16GB RAM.

I don't know why, but this happened after upgrading from 3.8.x to 4.1.3. I also noticed that in my /album folder on the server there is no new addition since the upgrade (over a month). So i am assuming the new Picture and Album Gallery is working differently, stocking the files in another folder (or maybe even in the database - although i have everything on file storage)...

But, i can't find anything related to those images, or settings i can change to see the images in albums like they were before. That's why i really need help!

Thanks!

[MonkYZ]

I am uploading some screenshots that might help understand the situation. In the first one (vBulletin 3.8) you can see how the same image is resized to fit (1024px) and in the second one (vBulletin 4.1.3), the same image is not resized at all, exceeding the website fixed size (1200px) and looking really bad.

I just hope there is a fix for this. Thanks again!

[The Rocketeer]

this mod needs some updating, On 4.1.4 it breaks the formatting, all images are shown way too big and nothing like the example pics. It was working fine upto 4.1.3.

[mb2tour]

Please, update for 4.1.4

Thank you,
~~QS

[The Rocketeer]

yes, please update it for us!

[archet1337]

I'm using this on my 4.1.4 board without any problems. Should work on yours too

[The Rocketeer]

nope, there is something wrong that makes all the pics appear too big instead of as thumbnails. I even tried the version 109 ( vB4 Gallery 109.zip ) and it stil shows up as 1.8.

[teach1st]

I've had this product on my heavily-modded 4.1.4 for a week and it works like a charm. No problems.

[The Rocketeer]

Originally Posted by teach1st

I've had this product on my heavily-modded 4.1.4 for a week and it works like a charm. No problems.

Got a link to your forum so i can check it out?

My problem seems to be that the album thumbnails instead of appearing as thumbnails are showing up in a bigger size. So I was wondering what could be causing this. since it was working till 4.1.2