Major Additions - vB iGallery (XML Based) + vB iGallery v2.02 (Dynamic) The Ultimate Xperience

vB iGallery (XML Based) + vB iGallery V2.02



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13th August 2008 - vBulletin 3.7 Bridge Released: Download is now available
vB iGallery V2.02 now available.
More features and very easy installation, optimized and brand new User Guides - also added the fully layered PSD to design your own background images. Demo V2.02: http://www.digitalport.co.uk/digital/vb_igallery.php

Revision: 1.01(XML based Only)


vB iGallery 1.01 (XML based only) requires no database to function
(see V2.02 below for full vBulletin bridge to User Albums)

about:
vB iGallery is an XML based gallery, therefore uses no database queries. It uses Papervision3D flash technology, giving you a unique 3D gallery Xperience. Fully tested on default and custom styles, and cross-browser compatible. Coded to work with vBulletin's DHTML menu system, to stop menu's dropping behind the flash object.

This XML version uses it's own album directories - it is not integrated with vBulletin 3.7.x user albums yet. However, this will be done in a future update.

Features

• 3D Gallery in a virtual world
• Controlled by mouse and keyboard
• Various Zoom features
• Spinning Gallery - mouse controlled
• Zoom in/out of gallery globe - mouse or keyboard
• Tooltips available on all images
• Descriptions show on full image display
• Override attributes - we list more soon

Installation
Full installation instructions are provided in Word and PDF formats, within the download package. Easy install requiring uploading of files/folders and one template edit.

User Guides
English and French User Guides available. French translation by Sofia - Many thanks!

Copyright
All images used in the example album have been used with the contributors permission. Please do not remove the copyright in the footer of the gallery page, instructions on removal are in the documentation.

LATEST RELEASE Updated to v2.02 - Package updated.
Main vB iGallery file was a development version. Alignment issues fixed. Multi-line Caption/Description field moved and fixed. Domain issue fixed.

vB iGallery v2.02 (Dynamic bridge to vBulletin 3.7 User Albums)
Download it now, it's bridged to use vBulletin 3.7 User Albums - allowing easy population of iGallery. No XML to edit or to configure. Completely recoded and optimized. FULL documention within download package, in Word and PDF formats.

IMPORTANT (Affects version 2.0 only)
Some users have mentioned images missing from Profiles and Albums after installing this modification, the images have not been deleted they simply require a rebuild. Please do the following after installing this modification.

Go to your AdminCP -> User Albums -> Rebuild Thumbnails then click the 'Rebuild Album Picture Thumbnails' button.
This will fix the thumbnails not showing after installation. User Guides will updated to reflect this issue.


Additional Bonus Background Package (v2.0 & v2.02 ONLY)
5 New backgrounds have been added for you to download - these have been designed using the supplied PSD template within the Tools folder of the vB iGallery v2.02.

AUTOMATIC UPDATE NOTIFICATIONS
If you receive another notification about an update within the past 12 hours, this is auto-generated by vbulletin.org if the main release post is changed. I have made a few changes to this post due to some confusion between the 2 versions available. Please make sure you download the correct version for your forum.

[tamiyausa]

Looks great!, get well! :up:

[EvilJohn]

To give the web site Admins control. I request that you have a setting to choose which albums are bridged. Even if its just one album. Thank You

[syrus.xl]

Originally Posted by rapidphim

Thanks for this awesome hack. Reading through 8 pages, I have not seen anyone brings up the question that whether or not this hack can pull the image from other hosting images such as photobucket, imageshack and such .....

Also, since this hack is going to intergrate with user album:
1/ is user album have to set as public in order for it to pull the images or it will even pull from private album?

2/ how many queries it will use?

Hi,

Sorry I missed your questions... my apologies

Pulling images from external sources (outside your own domain) requires a PHP proxy to workaround the Adobe cross-domain security in flash, this maybe looked at in a later version. Basically, for now it will just be for vBulletin 3.7 using a bridging script feed.

1. It will only pull images from public albums, for security reasons the data bridging file is setup not to allow direct access to albums, only the igallery can read the data.

2. Queries used will be very low due to the way the integration works.

[syrus.xl]

Originally Posted by jdelasko

Demo? What Demo? All I see is a blank page.

The demo requires Adobe Flash browser plugin version 9.0 update 3.0 - this should automatically be shown if you access the page without the correct version. An auto-installer script is built-in to download the latest plugin, without leaving the site/page.

[syrus.xl]

Originally Posted by bada_bing

Can you also include an intergration for vbportal not everyone uses vbadvance

vBportal is quite straight forward to use. We have used it in the past for demonstrations, we will look at a block template structure for this portal.

[syrus.xl]

Originally Posted by Aclikyano

This XML version uses it's own album directories - it is not integrated with vBulletin 3.7.x user albums yet. However, this will be done in a future update.

^ ANY UPDATES ON THIS ?

We are doing some testing before releasing the main bridge - it also includes an updated iGallery. The new iGallery flash file allows designers to publish their own backgrounds to customize the iGallery further.

You will see from aforementioned posts that its nearly at a release stage.

[Megatr0n]

Looking forward to it.

[rapidphim]

Originally Posted by syrus.xl

Hi,

Sorry I missed your questions... my apologies

Pulling images from external sources (outside your own domain) requires a PHP proxy to workaround the Adobe cross-domain security in flash, this maybe looked at in a later version. Basically, for now it will just be for vBulletin 3.7 using a bridging script feed.

1. It will only pull images from public albums, for security reasons the data bridging file is setup not to allow direct access to albums, only the igallery can read the data.

2. Queries used will be very low due to the way the integration works.

Thanks so mush Syrus. Lowest query being used is the best mod. Looking forward to your latest release.

[syrus.xl]

ADVANCED NOTIFICATION

Update 12th August 2008 release (Later today)

vB iGallery V2.0
On demonstration HERE.

As requested by many we have bridged this product to work with vBulletin 3.7 User Albums. Because this is just a temporary bridge, it has no AdminCP at present, this will change when we release a Multi-bridging Script which will allow you to choose what gallery you want, upload/delete background images, over 60 parameter settings which control camera position, globe settings, mirrors and much more.

The release today will allow the following:

• Background Image Import
• Pulls images from vBulletin 3.7 User Albums
• Tweens images from thumbnails to Full size automatically
• Resizes images automatically regardless if they are portrait or landscape view
• Can read PNG, GIF and JPG formats (Animated GIFs are not supported by Flash, so these will be shown as static images)
• By default it will be setup to pull the last images uploaded to any album, we have set this to pull the last 6 images per album (this can be changed to suit your own requirements)
• vBulletin User Album 'Captions' have been setup to show within the 'Description' field. This field has been changed to multi-line to compensate for long captions entered within vBulletin.

The bridge does require a vBulletin default to be changed, this is to give the lowest possible SQL queries. vB iGallery will query the database for the caption data only, it has also been optimized by default parameters to be CPU friendly. Tooltips have been removed in V2.0 which would have caused unnecessary SQL queries.

Regards,

Syrus XL

[rapidphim]

awesome work, Syrus and your team. Would you please kindly let me know if today release is a prerelease or will be the final release? Also, I know that you mentioned "lowest possible SQL queries" but would it be possible for you to tell exact number?

Not sure it's my company PC or not but I am not able to see the Demo. It gave me blank screen.