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

[KProjects]

No problems so far w/ 4.0.5
--> http://www.glockforums.org

[EquinoxWorld]

Originally Posted by KProjects

No problems so far w/ 4.0.5
--> http://www.glockforums.org

Thanks for the reply friend. Also received other responses that it's working ok as well.

[CrosseyedGamer]

it's actually mind boggling that this isn't just built into VB.

Works just great for me as well on 4.0.5.

The only thing I would ask someone is , how do I move the tab over a few spots?

Thanks!

[hqarrse]

Excellent mod - thank you.

Originally Posted by Verionia

Can you put categories in this pretty please

I would second this. I think a cats system is essential particularly for larger forums. I'd certainly donate again if this were added

[sergioloporto]

Excellent! I am using it on 4.0.5 and is looks fine. However I would feel safer if you could test it

[Gursimran]

very nice mod,

thanks a lot

[InsomniacP]

This is a great MOD but my images have lost lots of there quality once i uploaded them, and it didn't keep there transparent BG, is it possible to enable them to accept PNG rather than converting them to JPG?

[Webbstre]

I'm pretty sure those are settings you can fix within the vBulletin admincp - settings area, and aren't related to this mod. I also had quality settings until I went through and fixed everything and added a few more accepted file types.

[safakuygur]

very ni,ce thanks

[hemi6pack]

The picall and album all options dont work for me - page not found.

I run vB Suite 4.05 but not in the root directory - its installed in the forum directory (common for those of us who used to run vBA and other CMS's before VBsuite.

Very probably this is a pathway issue but has anyone seen it?

The rest of the options on the navtab work fine.... only the picall.php and albumall.php are "missing".

Thanks for your help..... GREAT mod!!