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.

[BlackxRam]

This mod needs a feature to create new threads in a specific forum when something has been added to the gallery. That would be a nice addition.

[BlackxRam]

If this mod auto populated info from the youtube API as well, things like optional thumbnails, time, title..ect for when you put in the URL or Filename... I think that would make this mod even more desirable.

[BlackxRam]

Also, I am having trouble editing or even deleting approved submissions from the main interface. As far as I can tell that option is missing somewhere on each submitted item page.

Edit: Ok I found the Edit / Delete options buried in the "My Media" pages. Perhaps if those options could also be located in the main page areas and details area that would be nice as well.

[BlackxRam]

There is also a square error image over the thumbnail of youtube videos. This square image also shows on the demo page as well.

[BlackxRam]

When you add a youtube video and the script fails to get the image there is no way to reattempt to get that image? Opting to choose the size of the thumbnails for the main page listing would be nice. The massive size they are right now is a bit distracting.

This addon shows promise, but I think it needs a couple extra things to give it that killer app potential.

[TheAdminMarket]

Media Gallery ver. 1.0.2 released. This version fixes the issue of not displaying the icon on mouseover the thumbs. The fonts directory was missing from the distribution file.

To upgrade:

1. Dowload version 1.0.2 and unzip it
2. Upload the folder mediagallery/font/ to mediagallery directory
3. (Optional) Imprort xml file to update the version number.

[TheAdminMarket]

Originally Posted by BlackxRam

This mod needs a feature to create new threads in a specific forum when something has been added to the gallery. That would be a nice addition.

Even if it's not big deal as I've added this feature in other mods, when I coded this mod I had in mind to release something simple. Let's say an advanced Gallery than the one that comes with vBulletin. Maybe in the future. Can't promise anything.

[TheAdminMarket]

Originally Posted by BlackxRam

If this mod auto populated info from the youtube API as well, things like optional thumbnails, time, title..ect for when you put in the URL or Filename... I think that would make this mod even more desirable.

As I wrote in my previous reply, this mod is just an advanced Gallery than the one that comes with vBulletin. Nothing more.

[TheAdminMarket]

Originally Posted by BlackxRam

There is also a square error image over the thumbnail of youtube videos. This square image also shows on the demo page as well.

Fixed in version 1.0.2. The fonts folder was missing from the distribution package.

[TheAdminMarket]

Originally Posted by BlackxRam

When you add a youtube video and the script fails to get the image there is no way to reattempt to get that image? Opting to choose the size of the thumbnails for the main page listing would be nice. The massive size they are right now is a bit distracting.

This addon shows promise, but I think it needs a couple extra things to give it that killer app potential.

You can use bigger thumb size. The design is responsive so the thumb size should be fits to any width.