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

[CybaGirl]

Originally Posted by Scalemotorcars

For those using the Tab xml and your having problems seeing the links, try using this in your plugin. Copy and replace the entire code for the tab plugin and of course you can manually edit the font color values.

Im sure its not the best way but it works in FF, IE, Chrome and Avant browsers.

PHP Code:

// change $allowguests from 'true' to 'false' if you do NOT want guests to see the gallery menu

    $allowguests = true; 

/******** NO EDITS below here! ************/
/******************************************/

if ($show['member'] OR $allowguests)
{
    global $vbphrase, $vbulletin, $stylevar;

    $sess = $vbulletin->session->vars['sessionurl_q'];
        $template_hook[navtab_end] .= '
        <li class="popupmenu">
            <a href="javascript://" class="popupctrl navtab">
                ' . $vbphrase['gallery'] . '<img src="' . vB_Template_Runtime::fetchStyleVar('imgdir_misc') . '/arrow.png" align="' . vB_Template_Runtime::fetchStyleVar('right') . '" />
            </a>
            <ul class="popupbody popuphover" style="color:' . vB_Template_Runtime::fetchStyleVar('navbar_tab_linkhover_color') . ';font:' . vB_Template_Runtime::fetchStyleVar('navbar_tab_font') . '">
            <li></li>
                <li><a href="albumall.php?' . $sess . '"><font color="#333333">' . $vbphrase['album_gallery'] . '</font></a></li>
                <li><a href="picall.php?' . $sess . '"><font color="#333333">' . $vbphrase['picture_gallery'] . '</font></a></li>
                ' . ($show['member'] ? '
                <li><a href="album.php?' . $sess . '&do=latest"><font color="#333333">' . $vbphrase['latest_albums'] . '</font></a></li>
                <li><a href="album.php?' . $sess . '&u=' . $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] . '"><font color="#333333">' . $vbphrase['my_albums'] . '</font></a></li>
                <li><a href="album.php?' . $sess . '&do=addalbum"><font color="#333333">' . $vbphrase['add_album'] . '</font></a></li>
                ' : '') . '
            </ul>
        </li>';
} 


AWESOME!!!!

Thanks so much for posting the solution to this problem!

For my dark skin I switched where it says <font color="#333333"> in your fix to <font color="#FFFFFF"> which makes the words now show up as white instead of the grey colour in your fix.

One question though.

Is there a way to just edit the colours for only one template? If so how would this be done as in what file needs to be changed and what needs to be added where?

As this fix edits all templates.

So now if someone is using default skin the drop down menu is now displaying the links in white text.

I don't understand why the default code in this mod changes the text color for. When every other mod that is added to the nav bar on my dark skin does not do this.

Thanks.

[thespi]

Ok there is an issue (BUG) when there are over the amount of albums then the page selsction is not shown on the user albums. This only occurs if a user has over the amount of albums to display on one page:
The page selction shows here:
http://www.carpediem.im/albumall.php?
BUT NOT HERE:
http://www.carpediem.im/album.php?u=109

Is there a change or correction I can make to fix this.

[HCGB]

Originally Posted by thespi

Ok there is an issue (BUG) when there are over the amount of albums then the page selsction is not shown on the user albums. This only occurs if a user has over the amount of albums to display on one page:
The page selction shows here:
http://www.carpediem.im/albumall.php?
BUT NOT HERE:
http://www.carpediem.im/album.php?u=109

Is there a change or correction I can make to fix this.

The first link shows albums for ALL users, the second link shows albums for only ONE user. The second link isn't part of this mod - it's the inbuilt vB album viewer - if it isn't working properly then report it as a bug on the vB site?

[thespi]

Originally Posted by HCGB

The first link shows albums for ALL users, the second link shows albums for only ONE user. The second link isn't part of this mod - it's the inbuilt vB album viewer - if it isn't working properly then report it as a bug on the vB site?

OK will do, how about the NavBar tab is there away to truncate it within IE as its pushing the tabs that proceed it off & looks untidy.

P.S. I received this reply from vB support, The albumall.php file is not a vB file. & they do not support third-party add-ons ect ect... So somewhere in the php a

<vb:if (user)> = show <div class="floatcontainer" id="controls_above"><div id="pagination_top">{vb:raw $pagenav}</div>

is missing. Now I don't know anything about the code so that's just made up, if these issues are resolvable then it will be working fine.

[fholbert]

Just what I'm looking for! Any one installed this on 4.0.8? Any issues with 4.08?

[thespi]

Originally Posted by fholbert

Just what I'm looking for! Any one installed this on 4.0.8? Any issues with 4.08?

If you have the tab on the nav bar it will stretch across until the end of the navbar. And users with over the amount of albums you display on one page will page nation doesn't start.

[fholbert]

Originally Posted by thespi

If you have the tab on the nav bar it will stretch across until the end of the navbar. And users with over the amount of albums you display on one page will page nation doesn't start.

Thanks, I'll load it up!

[Brandon Sheley]

This product is not compatible with version 4.1.0 of vBulletin. (Compatible starting with 4.0.2 / Incompatible with 4.1 and greater)

[Alibass]

I'm using it on my 4.1.0 PL1 board and it works great. Dont know what to tell you.

[taxman]

Originally Posted by Alibass

I'm using it on my 4.1.0 PL1 board and it works great. Dont know what to tell you.

Did you have it already installed when you upgraded to 4.1.0 ?

Will not install for me,,, also states "incompatable"