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.

[rotor]

Originally Posted by bosanci28

Your server path is not right.

/home/zdakzcvbmbx/public_html/mysite.com/mediagallery/photos

You have to make sure your hosting path...for it to work.

I'm lost - why do you say the server path is not right. Looks good to me

[rotor]

Originally Posted by BlackxRam

I am pretty sure the code for grabbing the youtube thumbnails has broken somewhat in the newer updates. I just tried adding about 15 youtube videos to test this and not one fetched the thumbnail.

Thumbs work just fine for uploading regular images and such. It's only for the Youtube stuff. You also said you can add your own youtube thumbnail but I don't see that option anywhere when I click edit on a youtube addition to the gallery.

yep same for me using vB 4.2.3

[bosanci28]

Originally Posted by NickTheGreek

1.- There is no BC. There is only BL or BR but setting the distance from left border you can do it. I'm not designer but I think that you can set: 50%

2.- No. Because it does not supports Albums. Only in Albums you can add bulk images. Here you must upload one by one and enter a description for each one.

Ok, Thanks for that info!

[bosanci28]

Originally Posted by rotor

I'm lost - why do you say the server path is not right. Looks good to me

Hmm, Not sure but i had the same problem with the video thumbs not generating and i figure out that my server path was wrong ...

I had it like:

/home/zdakzcvbmbx//home/zdakzcvbmbx/public_html/mysite.com/mediagallery/photos

It was doubled. Now all works. I am on vb4.2.2 , so not sure if for v4.2.3 if different.

[BlackxRam]

Originally Posted by NickTheGreek

Assuming that you've correct the follow 2 values:

1. YouTUBE id and NOT the full URL in the video that you post
2. The server path to .../mediagallery/photos

it's easy to find if its the mod's error or YouTUBE error. In details:

YouTUBE has some links for retrieving the video's thumb. The URL looks like:
https://i3.ytimg.com/vi/...YouTUBEid...resdefault.jpg

The last is the type of thumb. In this case is Maximum Resolution. Other possible values are:

• hqdefault.jpg for High Quality
• mqdefault.jpg for Medium Quality ...and...
• sddefault.jpg for Standard Definition

Most often the last one (even in not so good quality) works:
https://i3.ytimg.com/vi/...YouTUBEid...../sddefault.jpg

If you want to use this type, you can change media_usercp.php line 374:
From:

$videourl = 'https://i3.ytimg.com/vi/'.$video.'/maxresdefault.jpg';

Change to:

$videourl = 'https://i3.ytimg.com/vi/'.$video.'/sddefault.jpg';

the media_usercp.php seems to be broken. I haven't made any edits but i noticed when you browse to it from the My Media area, the page is just a WHITE page.

[BlackxRam]

Ok i figured out the youtube thumbnail thing and why some are not showing. Not every video I was adding had a Max Res Version.

Perhaps adding into the code some checks to see if an image exists because if a video does not have a Max Res Thumb then the media gallery gets broken.

The three image options that I see that seem to be the best are:

maxresdefault.jpg

then

hqdefault.jpg

then

0.jpg

sddefault.jpg did not work on every youtube video either. But 0.jpg always exists as far as I can tell. 0.jpg looks to be a better res anyways than sddefault.

[BlackxRam]

Also, where can i modify each of the gallery bit tables? The current format doesnt allow for titles that are too long as it makes the tables a bit too tall and then it creates big blank spaces in the home listing.

I was thinking about moving it to a Vertical Format or atleast trying to. A vertical list format would atleast allow for better visible organization.

[BlackxRam]

So, I made some changes to the MY MEDIA pages to save some space. Maybe you can adopt it if you like. I also made some changes to the 'containers' based on the info you gave me in the PM. I seperated each line (the title and the 'likes/views/comments line) into their own containers so they don't stretch and pull as easily if the titles get long. I also moved the Active/Hidden/Unapproved line into the thumbnail container to save space and be a bit more prominent on the listing.

[TheAdminMarket]

Originally Posted by BlackxRam

So, I made some changes to the MY MEDIA pages to save some space. Maybe you can adopt it if you like. I also made some changes to the 'containers' based on the info you gave me in the PM. I seperated each line (the title and the 'likes/views/comments line) into their own containers so they don't stretch and pull as easily if the titles get long. I also moved the Active/Hidden/Unapproved line into the thumbnail container to save space and be a bit more prominent on the listing.

Send me the changes and I can include them in the official release along with the /0.jpg image for the video thumb.

Thank you

[ArcadeSyndicate]

hello nick,

at first really great addon, exactly what i was looking for (i want to use it for an imageboard like pr0gramm or 4++++r)

i only have a little problem with the ajax functionality, there seems to be a conflict with another addon or the theme i use (for example the top media box and the like button doesn`t work). can you give me a hint where this is included?

i also have another little question. i can edit my own files via media_usercp.php?do=mymedia, but how about editing uploads from others users? in the modcp it seems i can only approve media files.

best regards
oliver