Social Group and Album Enhancements - [Scandal's] vBGallery

Description
Turn your vBulletin Album system to an organized Gallery. Watch presentation!

The basic idea of Scandal's vBGallery is to organize vBulletin Albums AND forum attachments (pictures) to a section with lots of functions (categories, search, latest objects, statistics, menus etc).
Designed for vBulletin 4.2.0 (otherwise you must add the navbar links manually).



Features:
- Categories system for Albums (like Forums for threads)
- Five (5) levels of subcategories allowed
- Album, picture and comment search
- Who browsing Gallery (= Gallery Home, Albums, Pictures)
- Gallery statistics
- Forum attachments gallery (with ability to act it as category)
- Pages: latest pictures - latest albums - latest comments (with feature to turn them to "All")
- "My Comments" feature (display all user comments)
- My Pictures/Albums in "this" category
- Ability to set custom statusicons to categories
- Notifications to users with "uncategorized" albums to move them
- Ability to hide empty categories (= with 0 albums)
- Admincp environment
- No annoying copyright info

Language Packs:
- Deutsch (Sie) - Deutsch (Du)


Installation:
1. Upload all files of folder "upload" to your forum root.
2. Import *xml product.
3. (Important) Open template album_edit and find:

<fieldset class="blockrow">

add below:

<vb:if condition="$vboptions['sc_gallery_onoff']">
{vb:raw formdata.catid}
</vb:if>

Done!

Upgrade:
1. FIRST OF ALL: Upload and replace all files of folder "upload" to your forum root.
2. THEN: Import XML product with "Allow Overwrite" to YES.

Who can view vBGallery;
Access to vBGallery has all members who belongs to usergroups with "Can View Albums" to YES.

What if I decide to turn off or uninstall vBGallery;
You are back to Albums without data lose (except the category of each Album - function of this hack).

How could I change the size of Gallery's thumbnails?
vBGallery use the thumbnail size you have set via admincp. To change it go to:
Admincp > Options > Message Attachment Options
... and set your value to "Thumbnail Size"
... afterwards you must rebuild attachment thumbnails at: Maintenance > General Update Tools > Rebuild Attachment Thumbnails

How to install navbar links (for vBulletin 4.0.X - 4.1.X)
Read this post

*Links (for vBulletin 4.0.X - 4.1.X)
::Screenshot::::..
GALLERY:
->/gallery.php

My Stuff:
(My Albums)-> /album.php
(Add Album)-> /album.php?do=addalbum
(My Comments)->/gallery.php?do=mycomments
(Pending Albums)->/gallery.php?do=pending

(Latest Pictures)->/gallery.php?do=latestpictures
(Latest Albums)->/gallery.php?do=latestalbums
(Latest Comments)->/gallery.php?do=latestcomments
(Search)->/gallery.php?do=search


Changelog:
v1.0 first release (beta)
v1.2 second release
- New layout choice for galleridisplay: Grid layout with feature to change the width of albumbits via admincp
- Integration of vBulletin's sidebar with Gallery Home (admin can enable or disable it on admincp)
- New feature: flood check and character limit check for the search engine
- Improved breadcrumb (add category name to navbit) ("Gallery > {category name} > Member List > {username} > Albums > {album name}" )
- "Inverse pyramid like" statistics for categories [a main category "has" the albums of its subcategories - like forum statistics (threads/posts) works for subforums]
- New feature: admin can enable/disable the view of empty categories (= categories with 0 Albums)
- New feature: admin can enable/disable the use of search engine by guests
- Building of Gallery Statistics by cronjob (= refresh every one hour). Very important for server performance.
- 1 bug fixed
v1.5 third release
- Classic layout abolished
- New: Notification feature = users with Albums in category "Uncategorized" auto-notified by the system to move them to a subject category (pending albums)
- New feature: admin can set if he want him users to display Albums or Pictures when open the categories.
- New: menus "Browse Albums" & "Browse Pictures" on Gallery Display (user can navigate the albums/pictures in the category)
- New: My albums/pictures in "this" category feature
- Admincp environment improved (List Albums)
- 3 bugs fixed
v1.6 fourth release
- Galleryhome: fixed the view of description for header categories
- New feature: ability to add custom statusicons to categories (screenshot)
- 1 phrase undefined variable fix
- pending albums: 1 bug fixed
v2.0 fifth release
- New feature: forum pictures attachment gallery (with ability to turn it as gallery category)
- search feature for attachment gallery
- 1 phrase issue fixed
- 1 bug fixed
v2.1
- better attachments gallery popup

Developer's notice: I give support only for code errors, not for style problems.

Tested on vBulletin 4.2.0

[Haponing]

Is there any way to put the preview or the latest pictures in the Forum Blocks Manager and put it at the very top of the forums?? PLEASE HELP

[cicudaf]

Hi,

I have an error after install this plugin:

Warning: Missing argument 2 for vB_Template_Runtime::linkBuild(), called in [path]/includes/class_core.php(4090) : eval()'d code on line 201 and defined in [path]/includes/class_core.php on line 4495
Fatal error: Call to undefined method vB_Friendly_Url_Error::get_url() in /home/www/static/site/www.site/public_html/includes/functions.php on line 6920

Anyone can help?

Thanks.

[Haponing]

Just a follow up. How can I display the albums at the top of the the forums? I think this can draw attention from other members if they see the latest pictures. Please?

[madness85]

Hmm would be perfect if it said number of comments on each image. Anyone know I could do this?

[madness85]

GIFS not moving gutted defo need this

My bad, gif attachment size permissions was set too small. All is fine now.

[Chadi]

Having some major VB Gallery / Image attachment problem:

#1
Ran general update > rebuild attachments and getting these errors:

Processing: Attachment : 136 (gif)
Processing: Attachment : 137 (jpeg) Error
Processing: Attachment : 138 (jpg) Error
Processing: Attachment : 139 (jpg) Error
Processing: Attachment : 140 (jpg) Image is already <= thumbnail size
Processing: Attachment : 141 (jpg) Image is already <= thumbnail size
Processing: Attachment : 142 (gif)
Processing: Attachment : 143 (jpg) Error
Processing: Attachment : 144 (jpg) Image is already <= thumbnail size
Processing: Attachment : 147 (jpg) Error
Processing: Attachment : 148 (jpg) Error
Processing: Attachment : 149 (jpg) Error
Processing: Attachment : 150 (jpg) Image is already <= thumbnail size
Processing: Attachment : 151 (gif) Image is already <= thumbnail size
Processing: Attachment : 152 (gif) Image is already <= thumbnail size
Processing: Attachment : 153 (jpg) Image is already <= thumbnail size
Processing: Attachment : 154 (jpg) Error
Processing: Attachment : 155 (jpg) Error
Processing: Attachment : 156 (jpg) Image is already <= thumbnail size
Processing: Attachment : 157 (gif)
Processing: Attachment : 158 (gif)
Processing: Attachment : 160 (jpg) Error
Processing: Attachment : 161 (gif)
Processing: Attachment : 162 (png)
Processing: Attachment : 163 (png)
Processing: Attachment : 164 (png)
Processing: Attachment : 165 (png)
Processing: Attachment : 167 (png)
Processing: Attachment : 168 (png)
Processing: Attachment : 169 (jpg) Error
Processing: Attachment : 170 (jpg) Error
Processing: Attachment : 171 (gif)
Processing: Attachment : 172 (jpg) Error
Processing: Attachment : 173 (png)
Processing: Attachment : 174 (jpg) Image is already <= thumbnail size
Processing: Attachment : 177 (jpg) Error
Processing: Attachment : 179 (jpg) Image is already <= thumbnail size

#2
See attached. Almost all images are not loading in the gallery:
http://www.talkjesus.com/gallery.php

Image processing library is set to GD. GD module is installed on my server.

Attachments are currently being stored in the filesystem at /home/user/public_html/images/attachments

"attachments" directory has 777 recursively as well.

Here's the thing, if I click the picture title link in any of those blank thumbnail boxes the pictures do show.

Running
vBulletin 4.2.0 PL4
PHP 5.4.27

[markoroots]

Hi,
I think will be really useful the opportunity to add a link to follow, when you click on an image, that by default, open the larger image, but if you want you will have the opportunity to redirect that click in another part.

Also the opportunity to decide if you need to add or not a little comment immediately down the thumbnail like a link or a little description will be great.

Will be also great if will be possible to manage in different ways all the category.
The settings that there are now, affect all categories...

So if I want to point two buttons that link 2 different galleries sections, now I always see in the same way, so will be good to personalize each visualization of the gallery.

For example
in one page/section I want show some premium photo in one way (for example 10 each page)
and in another I want show some others photo but in a different way (for example 50 each page)

I think it will be really a great mod if you add this features.

[Fongool]

I downloaded this and I'm trying to install it on (VBulletin 4.2.0 Patch Level 3).
I uploaded it to the root folder and when I go to import the .xml file, it tells me "invalid file"...I tried it both ways...uploading it from my pc and importing it from the root folder...neither will work...I edited the "album_edit" template also...But it will not import the .xml file...Any help would be greatly appreciated..I also tried it with "allow overwrite" and without "allow overwrite"...
This is the file I'm trying to import... "cpnav_sc_gallery.xml"
Thanks

F

[Fongool]

I got it installed and it looks great!...Maybe for any future updates, you can think about adding a watermark maker so users can add a watermark to their pictures to prevent theft...That would be a great feature...
Thank you again

F

[tbworld]

Originally Posted by Fongool

I got it installed and it looks great!...Maybe for any future updates, you can think about adding a watermark maker so users can add a watermark to their pictures to prevent theft...That would be a great feature...
Thank you again

F

This modification has not been updated since June of 2012.