New Posting Features - Cel Photo Popup - Insert pictures from vB Albums, Attachs, Photopost, vBGallery

Important!

Old editor (vB 4.1.3 and below): use 4.0.008!
New editor (vB 4.1.4 and above): use 4.1.00x!

What does it do?

When creating or editing a post, your users can open a popup window that will show them their pictures in the chosen gallery, albums or attachment system.


Detailed features list

• see second post

Upgrade from vB3 version
Please uninstall the old version at AdminCP->Plugins & Products->Manage Addons. Also remove all files you uploaded for the vB 3 version apart from the editor icon, which will be reused. This will be /photo_popup.php and all /includes/photo_popup_config_[product].php files, relative to your forum root. Then follow the installation instructions below.


Installation

1. Extract the archive.
2. Choose the products you want to use and rename the configuration files in _UPLOAD/includes/cel/cel_pp_config from .php_new to .php
3. If you're using Photopost Pro, you need to fill in some crucial information into the config file. Please see the config file for more information.
4. Upload the contents of folder "_UPLOAD" to your forum root. Note how the folder structure mirrors the folder structure in your forum root, so every file will be in the right place.
5. Now the Photo Popup and your chosen product configuration files will be present with default settings on your server. Later on, you may want to make adjustments there.
6. Install the product file at AdminCP->Plugins & Products->Manage Addons.
7. Template edits?
   • If you are using new editor, you're done.
   • If you are using old Editor and Template Modification System (TMS), you're done.
   • If none of the above two conditions apply to you, do the template modifications explained in _DOCS/OLD_EDITOR_ONLY-template_edits.txt manually for the editors you want the popup accessible from.

Basic Configuration

• Global configuration is done via AdminCP->Options->Cel Photo-Popup
• Additionally, you can make settings and overrides in the seperate product config files. See "Product Configuration" in third post.

Upgrade

• If upgrading within the vB4 series, just reimport the product-xml-file, overwriting the old version, and reupload all files (skip the icon if you're using a custom one).
• Most times you will be done, but please check in _DOCS/config_file_versions.txt whether the config file for one of the products you use has been changed since you last updated.
• If the config file for one of your products has been updated, rename _UPLOAD/includes/cel/cel_pp_config from .php_new to .php and transfer your custom settings from your current config file to the new one. Then upload it to your server.

Support and debugging

Please note the information in this post of this thread.


Version history
For older versions see the vB3 version of this Mod.
### 4.1.004 ###
fixed several bugs, text-button re-added (full list)
### 4.1.002 ###
button not showing issue resolved
### 4.1.001 ###
adapted to new vB editor, added workaround for image spacing
### 4.0.004-008 ###
bugfix releases
### 4.0.003 ###
initial release
new (core): completely rewritten code
new: categories/user albums/folders listed hierachically in albums dropdown
new: Photopost Pro and vBGallery permissions for categories
new: global permissions check
new: cache system for albums dropdown
new: override all product related AdminCP-Settings in the product config file.


** Please note that the config files for Photoplog and CND Garage have not been converted. I do not have access to vB4 versions of those two softwares for testing and developing. Whether this will change in future, I don't know - at the moment, apart from having no software access, I'm very much out of time. Anyway, the config files are not too hard to figure out and there is a short introduction to adapting them. Please feel free to convert or develop for other software, if you like, and submit to this thread or to me personally by PM.

### Don't forget to click install! ###
(No support if you don't)

[8thos]

What's different about the new version? Old version does Albums and Photopost perfectly.

BTW I also love your groups on forum home mod. Good job.

[cellarius]

Originally Posted by Octavius.

What's different about the new version? Old version does Albums and Photopost perfectly.

It will work with the new editor currently in beta testing (will be in vB4.1.4, already in use at vb.com).

BTW I also love your groups on forum home mod. Good job.

Thanks

[TundraSoul]

Awesome work, this should be a default vB function.

Cosmetic question: How may I change the name 'Photopost' from the pop-up window, drop down list of photo sources? I'd like to rename it to the name of my gallery.

Thanks!

[cellarius]

The addon is fully phrased, so just edit the according phrase in AdminCP (cel_pp_photopost).

[cellarius]

Whats new?

• adapted to the new vB Editor introduced in vB 4.1.4
• now works in post, CMS (bug in vB pending), blog, group and visitor messages editor automatically, no more template edits needed
• Workaround for image spacing limitation (new AdminCP option for seperator)

Important!

Old editor (vB 4.1.3 and below): use 4.0.008!
New editor (vB 4.1.4 and above): 4.1.001!

Additional notes:

Regarding the bug in CMS editor: At the moment, CMS editor does not show images in CMS WYSIWYG mode. Vote for this bug to get it fixed fast!

There is a limitation in the vB CKEditor implementation that keeps this mod (and any external script that drops content into the editor) to add a trailing space to this content. This makes it impossible to simply add a space between inserted images. For a (temporal?) workaround, I have added a new AdminCP option that allows for defining a custom seperator that will be inserted after every image inserted. You can use BBCode in this seperator. For convenience, there's a method provided to insert a . (point) in the color of the editor background that you have defined in stylevar textedit_background. This is off and needs to be activated, if desired.

Let me know if there are any problems or you have a better solution for the seperator problem, since my somewhat hackish fix does lead to somewhat messy code in the post...

[TundraSoul]

No template edits anymore correct?

I'm using vB 4.1.4 and 4.1.001 and it's not showing up in the editor. No icon or anything.

[cellarius]

Correct, no more template edits. Please check the following:

• make sure you have uploaded the icon file images/buttons/cel/cel_photo_popup.png
• then check whether it works in unmodified default style
• if you are using a custom style, it may be that this style uses its own images directory; if this is the case, make sure to upload cel/cel_photo_popup.png into the buttons directory of your custom style. Example: images/mystyle/buttons/cel/cel_photo_popup.png
• If you don't know where to look for this directory, check stylevar imgdir_button to find out.

So, why do I use the buttons and not the editor directory? Because, funny enough, the stylevar for images/editor is not available in the editor plugin javascript environment, while the one for images/buttons is.

[kilgor]

vb 4.1.4

• installed as per manual
• [checked] icon uploaded to images/buttons
• [checked] not showing up with default or any other style
• [checked] stylevar imgdir_button = images/buttons

[TundraSoul]

Originally Posted by cellarius

Correct, no more template edits. Please check the following:

• make sure you have uploaded the icon file images/buttons/cel/cel_photo_popup.png
• then check whether it works in unmodified default style
• if you are using a custom style, it may be that this style uses its own images directory; if this is the case, make sure to upload cel/cel_photo_popup.png into the buttons directory of your custom style. Example: images/mystyle/buttons/cel/cel_photo_popup.png
• If you don't know where to look for this directory, check stylevar imgdir_button to find out.

So, why do I use the buttons and not the editor directory? Because, funny enough, the stylevar for images/editor is not available in the editor plugin javascript environment, while the one for images/buttons is.

The image resides where it's supposed to be. Verified.

I verified the image does not display in an unaltered default vB 4.1.4 style. For that matter, there's no broken image spot in the editor, where I would almost expect to find the plug-in working.

[cellarius]

You won't see a broken image spot, since the image is displayed not via <img>, but by css. If you want me to troubleshoot this on your forum, send me login details that allow me access to an editor on your forum (if you allow guest posting, a link will suffice).