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.

[RichieBoy67]

Or just go into the maintenance section, view php info.

[TheAdminMarket]

Originally Posted by ArcadeSyndicate

how about adding PREV and NEXT buttons to the viewmedia-page?

Finally it's not so easy. Not from the coding side as I already added the code as you can see below. The problem is: Usability. Let me explain. The view media page opens from different sections. eg from browsing category xxxx, from browsing search results etc.

By adding Prev - Next, should ignores are these and it will shows just the previous and next id without any criteria something that will confuse the users. To solve this I must add queries and/or section flags to view media page, something not so easy.

But as I said, I already wrore the code, so you can use the attached media.php. Then in mediagalley_view_media template add anywhere you want to show the links:

<vb:if condition="!empty($prev_link)">
     <a href="{vb:raw prev_link}">Previous</a>
</vb:if>
<vb:if condition="!empty($next_link)">
     <a href="{vb:raw next_link}">Next</a>
</vb:if>

[ArcadeSyndicate]

thank you, works fine :up:

[BlackxRam]

Originally Posted by madness85

Im happy donate when BlackxRam pms ya with his changes, checked his site all thumbs added and looks really tidy.

I sent NTG the template changes I did. I am sure they might need some cleaning up as they were hurriedly thrown together lol.


Like this mod guys, click that install button and if you are like me... Nominate it!

[TheAdminMarket]

Originally Posted by ArcadeSyndicate

thank you, works fine :up:

If you plan to use it, and as the common listing-> View page is the category listing I can modify a bit the code to work like "Prev - Next" on the same category.

[TheAdminMarket]

Originally Posted by BlackxRam

I sent NTG the template changes I did. I am sure they might need some cleaning up as they were hurriedly thrown together lol.

Thank you for sharing. By the way I want to ask you something. In a previous post you wrore that 0.jpg is the most common filename to get video thumb, but in your PM you wrote that you're using hddefault.jpg. Finally which filename is the one that works in most cases? I plan to update my code.

[ArcadeSyndicate]

Originally Posted by NickTheGreek

If you plan to use it, and as the common listing-> View page is the category listing I can modify a bit the code to work like "Prev - Next" on the same category.

for me it's good as it is now, but if that isn't too much work for you, it even would be better

the idea was to skip the latest uploaded pictures one after another without going back to the main site after viewing an image every time. pictures in a single category are not so important.

[TorrentMan]

Originally Posted by ArcadeSyndicate

to get the absolute server path just upload this file to your directory and check it in the browser.

remove when you don't need it anymore.

I know my forum path and it is correct...
I was asking what file do i edit to correct this?

[TheAdminMarket]

Originally Posted by ArcadeSyndicate

for me it's good as it is now, but if that isn't too much work for you, it even would be better

It was just a: AND categoryid=$itemcatid in the query. So, no problem.

[TheAdminMarket]

Originally Posted by TorrentMan

I know my forum path and it is correct...
I was asking what file do i edit to correct this?

Is on Admincp-> Media Gallery-> General Options-> Server Path to Uploads (5th from the end)