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

[FTDave]

I found another plugin supporting this and was able to pull photos and put them on the bottom of the page. I really appreciate your hard work.
Thank you.
http://www.teenbay.net/

[QuickQuestion]

On my forum (4.1.2), when you go to albums or pictures I get a 404 error. I'm using the navtab option. Any ideas?

Edit: Ah; not ignoring the very first step in the installation process might fix it. Problem solved. Sorry for my epic fail.

[Wordplay]

thanks a lot, great mod.

installed.

[Saad1180]

Thank's You for this hack

[mgcom]

Originally Posted by blankpage

How can I change the white links on white background on Gallery tab? the links are not readable

thanks..

go to your stylevars for whatever skin your using and edit

navbar_tab_linkhover_color

[marius25]

It will be great to have some picture categories added by admin (or albums). ..and users to submit images into the admin categories (or albums only). In this way a forum with many images will be more organized...and the end user may search pictures by categoies.

[ivang]

I vote for the categorization of the albums. It could set by admin/creator on a preconfigured categories basis.
Another very interesting thing is to show the # comments on every image (or perhaps albums also). To do not use more space on the page than needed, it could be done over the image via css, like 8WR Media Library mod (example: http://www.peskayak.net/site/media.php)

It is installed and works!

[maineGuy72]

is there a way to have it auto resize an image with a max width? some picture go out of the set width of the template
http://www.nhreptile.com/album.php?a...ttachmentid=97
thanks

[insanewhip]

Great mod, marked installed

[Lostboyfan]

Is there a way to rename the gallery link to something else. Like Personal Albums?