Major Additions - Media Gallery (Photos, Audio, YouTUBE)

Since 2006 I was serving community members with my Free Mods
But as this site will starts operating by the company,
I'm no willing to support them

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Media Gallery
Photos, Audio, YouTUBE

Compatible with vB4.2.3

I'm offering my hard work for free, without even a single copyright line in footer, expecting that some of you will appreciate the time that I spent for coding it and they will donate something.

Demo: http://www.teriakis.com/vb423/media.php

1.- What's this?

Media Gallery it's a simple Gallery mod supporting Photo and Audio uploads and YouTUBE videos. I was looking for a simple Gallery mod for my own use and as I didn't found something meeting my requirements, I coded this mod. By saying "simple" mostly goes to the easy of use, otherwise it has some great features that you can't even find in big Galleries. It's social share ready especially for Facebook using OpenGraph Meta.

Explore it. You'll love it.

2.- Installation

1. Download the zip file, and unzip it
2. Upload the content of upload/ folder to your forum directory
3. CMOD 777 the directories:
   1. mediagallery/audio
   2. mediagallery/photos
   3. mediagallery/photos/thumbs
4. From your Admincp import product-mediagallery.xml
5. If you're using htaccess file for SEO Urls copy the content of htaccess.txt to your .htaccess file
6. Check and Set Usergroup Permissions
7. Check and Set General Settings
8. Add Categories
9. Moderation is available from ModCP.

PS: For YouTUBE videos the code with tries to fetch the video thumb. Sometimes this action stucks. In this case you can upload your own thumb.

[BlackxRam]

Then the thumbs don't see to be resizing properly with youtube embeds because even though I have them set at about 320px im getting resizes which seem to be over 450px, or whichever size is default on your test install you have linked.

It's a shame you want to stick with something so simple because there is a place right now for a good Media Gallery because a lot of them are broken because of Youtube's recent API change and the developers are no longer supporting them. This mod could stand on its own and fill the gap that the other media galleries have left.

Perhaps keep this one simple and release a more feature intensive version? Something on par with the Video Directory Remix perhaps.

Just saying is all. Not bashing you at all so please don't take it that way. I just see the potential you have here with this version.

[TheAdminMarket]

Originally Posted by BlackxRam

Just saying is all. Not bashing you at all so please don't take it that way. I just see the potential you have here with this version.

No, honestly, I'm not getting it wrong, but I like to make clear some things:

1. I don't have any free time. I'm working at least 12 hours a day, 365 days of the year. There are no weekend for me, there are no holidays. Since 4 Sep 2004 (so almost 11 years now) the only "day-off" that I had was on 19-26 Oct 2009 when I was hospitalization!!. All other days were working days for me.
2. I gave up with vBulletin. vBulletin for me is a dead product. The days of Glory for vB coders/designers has been gone.
3. Instead to keep my mods in my PC I decided to release them for free in the community. I even removed the copyright links. I'm trying to keep the up to date (already released updates for vB 4.2.3), I'm here to fix bugs, but sorry, this is all that I can do.

[tommyturnage]

Quick question. I may have over looked the answer but why dont my thumbs show up for YouTube videos?

Edit: Or how do I add my own thumbnails

[iiioroh]

Great job!

I have slider, likes and comments is not a function

[RichieBoy67]

my only issue right now Nick is that some of the files or at least media.php already exist on my server from the other media app that no longer works in some regards. I would like to keep both. I am sure I can rename the media.php if needed but haven't looked into it yet.

Thanks Nick for your hard work!

[madness85]

just had a quick go on your demo as you said it doesn't add thumbs but i cant even find a option to manually add.

great mod and thank you. hopefully when your not so busy auto thumbs will be added

[TheAdminMarket]

Originally Posted by madness85

just had a quick go on your demo as you said it doesn't add thumbs but i cant even find a option to manually add.

great mod and thank you. hopefully when your not so busy auto thumbs will be added

Video thumbs work fine:
http://www.teriakis.com/vb423/media.php
Just add a video with title "Testing Thumb".

The reason that you and someone else can't see the thumbs is because (like most users) you're in rush to have everything working just after the upload. If you follow the standard steps valid for all vB mods it should works. And the main step is: SETTINGS.

If you go to the mod settings, the last one is:
Server Path to Uploads
Set there the correct server path to ...../mediagallery/photos and everything should works fine.

[concepts]

Main issue I see with this mod currently is the "like" under a user account. If 'One' Media is liked, it's shows "You already liked this" for all other media, thus not allowing additional likes on additional media.

Additionally, the option to choose what is displayed on the side bar (only showing categories and top media is my preference but no idea how this is done). Most of the other options serves no purpose and I highly doubt users will use it, just adds clutter imo.

Otherwise, this MOD is amazing.

Lastly, Admin Option to delete ANY media

[TheAdminMarket]

Originally Posted by concepts

Main issue I see with this mod currently is the "like" under a user account. If 'One' Media is liked, it's shows "You already liked this" for all other media, thus not allowing additional likes on additional media.

Additionally, the option to choose what is displayed on the side bar (only showing categories and top media is my preference but no idea how this is done). Most of the other options serves no purpose and I highly doubt users will use it, just adds clutter imo.

Otherwise, this MOD is amazing.

Lastly, Admin Option to delete ANY media

1.- Confirmed. I'll fix it tomorrow.
2.- In the templates you'll see something like:

		{vb:raw search_block}
		{vb:raw topmedia_block}
		{vb:raw statistics_block}

If for example you don't like the statistics block jus remove: {vb:raw statistics_block}

[concepts]

Thanks for the info! worked perfect. I was able to leave only the category, order by, top media, and stats area. Looks much cleaner. Looking forward to the update. The profile tab looks nice by the way. This mod is beyond great and will suit my needs amazingly!