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

[Videx]

Originally Posted by WhiskeyOSS

will not work with 4.06 there is a navbar issue when a hack tries to utilize it.. VB says it's the third party's problem not theres

That's not much help. Do you have a link?

[WhiskeyOSS]

retraction Its working now ... I reinstalled it just a few mins ago and its working now.. thank you

[HCGB]

Originally Posted by WhiskeyOSS

will not work with 4.06 there is a navbar issue when a hack tries to utilize it.. VB says it's the third party's problem not theres

Just tested it and it works perfectly OK with the standard vB style.

[WhiskeyOSS]

we just got it working with our mod style..we do not use the std vb style..
one of my do admins changed somthing in ours and it seems to be ok..

[K4GAP]

Works great with 4.0.6 running a custom style.

[daveaite]

Decided to give this mod a swing. I'll let you know if it works on vb4.06 as well.

Edit: It sorta...works. I can't create albums...the button "save changes" is stuck. lol

[coshotgun]

Running Vbulletin Suite and have the following problems that we would like to see fixed if possible:

Nav-tab
The gallery tab takes up the whole length of the tab bar. when mouse over it even changes color through the search box.
When clicked the drop down box covers the entire width of the page plus some. The text is not visable until you mouse over it
The drop down box does not disapear unless you click off the box somewhere

Nav-bar
Works great but only when you are viewing the forum. Does not appear at any other time.

this is just what we are looking for if it just worked correctly for us. thanks for all the hard work!!! Any chance of it working for us in the near future???

[HCGB]

Originally Posted by daveaite

Edit: It sorta...works. I can't create albums...the button "save changes" is stuck. lol

Nothing to do with this mod - album creation is a feature of vB - I would suggest that you check the permissions for the group wishing to create albums?

Originally Posted by coshotgun

Nav-tab
The gallery tab takes up the whole length of the tab bar. when mouse over it even changes color through the search box.
When clicked the drop down box covers the entire width of the page plus some. The text is not visable until you mouse over it
The drop down box does not disapear unless you click off the box somewhere

Menu style problems are usually down to using a custom style - you haven't provided a link or example.
The drop down menu behaviour is the same as all the other normal vB menus.

Nav-bar
Works great but only when you are viewing the forum. Does not appear at any other time.

The gallery is part of the forum - it isn't part of the CMS. It's easy to add menu links as the gallery browsers are separate pages (take a look back through this thread for examples).

[Capt Hair]

Thanks for the hack this is the first mod I'm doing myself, I am having a problem though.

I have it installed and the Gallery tab is appearing on the Nav Bar, but the "Album Gallery" and "Photo Gallery" links are not working. Any suggestions? Takes me to a 404 screen when I click on them.

Thanks

Edit: Figured it out what was wrong! Works perfectly!

Thanks again!

[coshotgun]

I got the last problem worked out and it worked great until today when I installed vBadvanced Links Directory v4.1.0.

Now when I am in the links directory, and click on the gallery links, it does not give the correct url. It injects the /links/albumall.php? in the url address rather than /albumall.php? from the forum directory...

What do i change to fix this???

Other than that it works great in 4.0.6

NEVER MIND.... I changed the XML to fix this