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

[TimberFloorAu]

Hey John.

I shot thru that code for you, hope you got it ok.
I guessed at your email, as the one in pm you sent was wrong ! you dillpickle

Regards Ste

[Rayiw]

Hi ,

Does your product support a slideshow of an album?

Thanks
Rayiw

[HCGB]

Originally Posted by Nurofen

Is there anything like this for v3.8?

Yes, but it only does albums - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...ght=all+albums

Originally Posted by nofx1982

there will be a release with rating images?

Not until vB support picture rating

Originally Posted by TimberFloorAu

Hey John.
I shot thru that code for you, hope you got it ok.
I guessed at your email, as the one in pm you sent was wrong ! you dillpickle
Regards Ste

Thanks Steve - sorry about the email typo. I'll get it sorted today (hopefully )

Originally Posted by Rayiw

Hi ,
Does your product support a slideshow of an album?
Rayiw

No - it links to the normal album viewer in vB

[Bill_Reilly]

HAHAHA this is perfectly what I needed. This plugin just eliminated 17 trillion complaints in my inbox LOL

[Verionia]

Can you put categories in this pretty please

[taxick]

Thanks

[ShawnV]

In 106 sub-menu,

The links for Album and Picture gallery's are backwards, album link takes you to pic and pics link takes you to albums.

Also, what class or stylevar are you using for the hover-over highlight?

[HCGB]

Originally Posted by ShawnV

In 106 sub-menu,

The links for Album and Picture gallery's are backwards, album link takes you to pic and pics link takes you to albums.

Also, what class or stylevar are you using for the hover-over highlight?

Yep- the links in the navtab are backward - the navbar is OK though. I'll upload a new version later

The navTab popup uses the same style as the navBar popup. There are no navTab popumenu stylevars so I've used the popupmenu popuphover class with navbar_tab_linkhover_color and navbar_tab_font to keep it consistent with the other menus. Unless anyone has any better ideas?

[Lore Master]

Installed, thanks, works well.

As I'm not fond of a drop down in Nav Tabs, I wrote a new plugin and added a new template so that the Gallery Nav Tab works like the other Tabs. I also did a check so that a user in Albums will still highlight my Gallery Tab instead of the Forums Tab.

You can see it here: www.reawebservices.com/reaforum/

(new forum, no members yet, with a test album for ummm testing ). The My Albums I converted into a drop-down with View My Albums, and Add New Albums. Guests can not view that in the navbar.

[svandanam]

Thank you for the mod !!