Social Group and Album Enhancements - [Scandal's] vBGallery

Description
Turn your vBulletin Album system to an organized Gallery. Watch presentation!

The basic idea of Scandal's vBGallery is to organize vBulletin Albums AND forum attachments (pictures) to a section with lots of functions (categories, search, latest objects, statistics, menus etc).
Designed for vBulletin 4.2.0 (otherwise you must add the navbar links manually).



Features:
- Categories system for Albums (like Forums for threads)
- Five (5) levels of subcategories allowed
- Album, picture and comment search
- Who browsing Gallery (= Gallery Home, Albums, Pictures)
- Gallery statistics
- Forum attachments gallery (with ability to act it as category)
- Pages: latest pictures - latest albums - latest comments (with feature to turn them to "All")
- "My Comments" feature (display all user comments)
- My Pictures/Albums in "this" category
- Ability to set custom statusicons to categories
- Notifications to users with "uncategorized" albums to move them
- Ability to hide empty categories (= with 0 albums)
- Admincp environment
- No annoying copyright info

Language Packs:
- Deutsch (Sie) - Deutsch (Du)


Installation:
1. Upload all files of folder "upload" to your forum root.
2. Import *xml product.
3. (Important) Open template album_edit and find:

<fieldset class="blockrow">

add below:

<vb:if condition="$vboptions['sc_gallery_onoff']">
{vb:raw formdata.catid}
</vb:if>

Done!

Upgrade:
1. FIRST OF ALL: Upload and replace all files of folder "upload" to your forum root.
2. THEN: Import XML product with "Allow Overwrite" to YES.

Who can view vBGallery;
Access to vBGallery has all members who belongs to usergroups with "Can View Albums" to YES.

What if I decide to turn off or uninstall vBGallery;
You are back to Albums without data lose (except the category of each Album - function of this hack).

How could I change the size of Gallery's thumbnails?
vBGallery use the thumbnail size you have set via admincp. To change it go to:
Admincp > Options > Message Attachment Options
... and set your value to "Thumbnail Size"
... afterwards you must rebuild attachment thumbnails at: Maintenance > General Update Tools > Rebuild Attachment Thumbnails

How to install navbar links (for vBulletin 4.0.X - 4.1.X)
Read this post

*Links (for vBulletin 4.0.X - 4.1.X)
::Screenshot::::..
GALLERY:
->/gallery.php

My Stuff:
(My Albums)-> /album.php
(Add Album)-> /album.php?do=addalbum
(My Comments)->/gallery.php?do=mycomments
(Pending Albums)->/gallery.php?do=pending

(Latest Pictures)->/gallery.php?do=latestpictures
(Latest Albums)->/gallery.php?do=latestalbums
(Latest Comments)->/gallery.php?do=latestcomments
(Search)->/gallery.php?do=search


Changelog:
v1.0 first release (beta)
v1.2 second release
- New layout choice for galleridisplay: Grid layout with feature to change the width of albumbits via admincp
- Integration of vBulletin's sidebar with Gallery Home (admin can enable or disable it on admincp)
- New feature: flood check and character limit check for the search engine
- Improved breadcrumb (add category name to navbit) ("Gallery > {category name} > Member List > {username} > Albums > {album name}" )
- "Inverse pyramid like" statistics for categories [a main category "has" the albums of its subcategories - like forum statistics (threads/posts) works for subforums]
- New feature: admin can enable/disable the view of empty categories (= categories with 0 Albums)
- New feature: admin can enable/disable the use of search engine by guests
- Building of Gallery Statistics by cronjob (= refresh every one hour). Very important for server performance.
- 1 bug fixed
v1.5 third release
- Classic layout abolished
- New: Notification feature = users with Albums in category "Uncategorized" auto-notified by the system to move them to a subject category (pending albums)
- New feature: admin can set if he want him users to display Albums or Pictures when open the categories.
- New: menus "Browse Albums" & "Browse Pictures" on Gallery Display (user can navigate the albums/pictures in the category)
- New: My albums/pictures in "this" category feature
- Admincp environment improved (List Albums)
- 3 bugs fixed
v1.6 fourth release
- Galleryhome: fixed the view of description for header categories
- New feature: ability to add custom statusicons to categories (screenshot)
- 1 phrase undefined variable fix
- pending albums: 1 bug fixed
v2.0 fifth release
- New feature: forum pictures attachment gallery (with ability to turn it as gallery category)
- search feature for attachment gallery
- 1 phrase issue fixed
- 1 bug fixed
v2.1
- better attachments gallery popup

Developer's notice: I give support only for code errors, not for style problems.

Tested on vBulletin 4.2.0

[Scandal]

v2.0 available!
- New feature: forum pictures attachment gallery (with ability to act it as gallery category + forum filtre). Admin can turn off attachments gallery if he want.
- search feature for attachment gallery
- 2 phrase issues fixed
- 1 bug fixed

Originally Posted by Leica.Robbiani

But another great feature would be boxes with latest and random pics on gallery.php.

Best regards

L.R.

Nice idea, but I suggest to a similar mod (random album pictures) for vBulletin's sidebar.

Notice: If you like this hack, nominate it for MOTM!

[Alfa1]

Originally Posted by Scandal

Notice: If you like this hack, nominate it for MOTM!

Way ahead of you.

[Leica.Robbiani]

Originally Posted by Scandal

Nice idea, but I suggest to a similar mod (random album pictures) for vBulletin's sidebar.

Yeah, I'll try this. But notice, the sidebar must be enabled. There are people out there who don't like it, for whatever reason. Maybe it will be an idea to create an own sidebar block, with further information about the pics (just if you want to do this).

Originally Posted by Scandal

Notice: If you like this hack, nominate it for MOTM!

Well done days ago.

I installed the update, now I make the translation.

Thank you again for the update, it looks drop dead beautiful.

Best regards

L.R.

[DM BoNeZ]

if not already suggested. you should try to add a like system on pictures

[Front Range 4x4]

Installed the update showing attachments, is this what it's supposed to look like?

[Scandal]

Originally Posted by Front Range 4x4

Installed the update showing attachments, is this what it's supposed to look like?

oops, I had test it with big attachment pictures. The "wrong" is that it should be centered.

[pokusek]

Is there a way to display latest pictures above the list of categories?

Cool mod, thanks!

[Scandal]

Originally Posted by Front Range 4x4

Installed the update showing attachments, is this what it's supposed to look like?

hmm try new version (2.1), I use a better popup system. :up:
(don't forget to upload the new files during the installation)

[Front Range 4x4]

Nice Scandal! Lightbox is so much better! Thank you!

I guess someone has to say it so I will, wouldn't it be more consistent if lightbox was used in all the categories instead of just the attachment gallery?

Your support is top of the line! :up:

[Front Range 4x4]

Originally Posted by Leica.Robbiani

Yeah, I'll try this. But notice, the sidebar must be enabled. There are people out there who don't like it, for whatever reason. Maybe it will be an idea to create an own sidebar block, with further information about the pics (just if you want to do this).

I agree and don't use the sidebar but think everyone should use this mod to put albums pics on FORUMHOME. - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=228618 There's a very long thread there and someone may already have done the sidebar block but I haven't checked.