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

[Pop's Stang]

Originally Posted by Pop's Stang

Hi everyone. I know this has been asked a few times, but I have never seen a answer to the problem. I am using vb4.2. I installed the program but the first to tabs "Album Gallery" and "Picture Gallery" Don't work. I get the following error message: 404 Error File Not Found



Can someone give me step by step instructions on how to fix these 2 tabs.

Thank you. :up:

Can anyone please help me with this? I uploaded the "upload" file into my root directory. Is this the right place? Is this different that the forum root? I am new to this.

[Videx]

Originally Posted by Pop's Stang

Can anyone please help me with this? I uploaded the "upload" file into my root directory. Is this the right place? Is this different that the forum root? I am new to this.

It should be different, but it depends how the site is constructed. Regardless, forum root is the folder with showthread.php in it.

You should read https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=201864 which is mostly still relevant despite being a few years old.

[Pop's Stang]

Thanks Videx for your help and for the showing me the link for beginners. That will come in useful.

I finally found what I was doing wrong. I was trying to upload the "upload" file as one file. After installing just the Albumall.php and Picall.php files by themself everything is working now.

Thanks again

[Pop's Stang]

Where to I go to edit the size of the thumbnails?

[Videx]

Originally Posted by Pop's Stang

Where to I go to edit the size of the thumbnails?

Who knows. Start with the "Search this mod" in the upper right. You can try the manual (http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/), but otherwise get used to doing lots of searches at both vb.com and vb.org for all kinds of answers.

[Spangle]

Originally Posted by Alibass

Well mate what can I say, you've been a member of this site since 07 and you can plainly see this mod has not been updated in 2 years. Sometimes the best of mods do not work straight out of the box and you have to tweak to your site to make them work. But all said and done the mod does what it says it does and even on the last release of 4.2PL3

Worked for me on 4.2PL3 out of the box, only problem I'm having is how to upload the blooming images !

Forget that , just worked it out ! Doh!!

[Daniel Carr]

Works out of the box!
Dont know why this is not in vBulletin out of the box in the first place tho!

Thank you to the author of this mod!

[guzziwa]

I'm using 4.2.0 PL3. Couldn't get the navbar to display the gallery drop down. Took me a while but it's fixed with one line.

Prior to adding product-gallery_navbar-100.xml, edit the xml and change the name of the template hook to "navbar_after_links" instead of "navbar_after_getnew".

Awesome mod by the way.

[K4GAP]

I have to thank you sooo much for this. The one thing I was missing on my site was an easily assessable photo gallery.

[K4GAP]

Originally Posted by maineGuy72

is there a way to have it auto resize an image with a max width? some picture go out of the set width of the template
http://www.nhreptile.com/album.php?a...ttachmentid=97
thanks

Was this ever answered?
I LOVE this add on except that large images bust out of my narrow styles.