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

[Videx]

Yes please remember to mark the code as "reusable", otherwise the copyright cops won't let anyone release anything remotely resembling it.

[orangefive]

HCGB - great mod, installed and love it so thanks for your time and releasing this so people like me can use and enjoy it...

... anyone know anyway of making it so that group albums also display under Album Gallery?

[hoadiem]

hi, i'm using v1.0.8 for my vb4.0 , and i install the one for navtab but the tab is too big , it takes all the rest of my tab place?

[NTMID8]

Originally Posted by HCGB

OK guys - I no longer have access to a vB license therefore there will be no enhancements made to this mod (unless someone else wants to take it over). I'm happy to check out any bugs (although none have been reported in over a year) but I won't be adding any additional features. As I said at the start, this is a picture viewer - it was never intended to be more than that.

Thank you, John.

So the code is marked re-usable now. Any other coders out there want to take a crack at looking at some of the requests and making this great mod even better?

[The Rocketeer]

Originally Posted by HCGB

OK guys - I no longer have access to a vB license therefore there will be no enhancements made to this mod (unless someone else wants to take it over). I'm happy to check out any bugs (although none have been reported in over a year) but I won't be adding any additional features. As I said at the start, this is a picture viewer - it was never intended to be more than that.

BTW: some of the "feature requests" are already available in the basic vB install - take time to understand how vB works and you'll figure it out - I don't have the time to hold peoples hands I'm afraid

Well I am more than happy to let you use my license / test forum to improve this mod.
No offence to you, I have been using this mod on all my forums for the last one year and its a good mod.

But you have to understand that we already know how vBulletin works(most of it anyway) and the feature so to say I was asking isn't a feature at all. Its a enhancement to this mod so that all the images in the first page is shown as thumbnails instead of whatever the thumbnail size is set at our vbulletin ACP.

For example, if we set our thumbnails to something bigger then all the album preview images show up as big. What I was asking is to code your mod in a way so that it "DEPRECIATES" the forum thumbnail settings and uses its own thumbnail / picture preview settings.

I am not asking you to hold out hands here:erm:

//end rant

Originally Posted by NTMID8

Yeah, but it does not hurt to ask either, does it? Some coders only want to share what they wrote for their needs and let that be the end of it. Others enjoy the challenge of new requests.

I have actualy gotten in touch with the coder and he no longer has access to vB to be able to develop or support, but may do something if he can get access which I am discussing with him. Additionally, he may give permission for other coders to pick up his mod and continue development.

The only thing not asking does is hinder further development.

Exactly.
Well, as I said these are just some of the basic features, maybe one or two. I am more than happy to give him permission to use my board to work on his mod. Otherwise I guess we'll have to look for another coder, Do you know mooff, the german guy who made the nivo slider mod? https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=267024 we could ask him too.

[HCGB]

I released this mod (and others) to try to put something back in return for the information and support given by others - I (like most other mod authors) don't get paid to do this (in fact only one out of the 1K users of this mod thought it was worth 5 bucks - not that I'm bothered as that wasn't the reason for releasing it ).

Rocketeer, you don't want this mod - what you want is a mod that looks like this but also does other stuff. It's a non-trivial job adding enhancements, the coding/debug/test cycle would be many hours work which would eat into the time I need to spend earning money. Why not use this code and do it yourself - the vB learning curve is probably around 6 months for a non-coder (it was for me)?

A said I'm more than happy for anyone to use the code to develop this mod further but that's as far as it goes.

[stud]

Thanks for everything you've done HCGB. This mod works just fine for what I need it for.

Anyone know if there is a vBexperience plugin around for this mod?

[MonkYZ]

Can somebody please help me with this huge problem? Every image that's larger than the fixed website size (1200 px width) is not beeing resized nor fitted into the page, expanding too much and breaking the website layout.

I will attach a screen with the issue. Thank you in advance!

[The Rocketeer]

Originally Posted by MonkYZ

Can somebody please help me with this huge problem? Every image that's larger than the fixed website size (1200 px width) is not beeing resized nor fitted into the page, expanding too much and breaking the website layout.

I will attach a screen with the issue. Thank you in advance!

the original author doesn't work on vBulletin anymore, this was a great mod, but he wont be able to support it much from due to stuff in his own life. now but the code is re usable so I asked another coder is he would kindly take it over for us.

[MonkYZ]

Originally Posted by The Rocketeer

the original author doesn't work on vBulletin anymore, this was a great mod, but he wont be able to support it much from due to stuff in his own life. now but the code is re usable so I asked another coder is he would kindly take it over for us.

Well, is bad to hear that. Anyway i kinda fixed that issue by replacing the <img with <img width="800px" in album_pictureview. Hope it helps you too. Unfortunatelly, the small images will also be resized...