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

[8thos]

Originally Posted by akxt660

What are the updates for the 1.09 version?

The 1.09 version lets people who have the latest versions of vb4 install the modification.

That is all. Nothing else has changed. Period.

[8thos]

Originally Posted by mkv

Is there any hack that gives users feature to easily embed picture from their albums into a thread?
Maybe drag/drop or similar?

/M

Yep it's called Cel Photo Popup.

[8thos]

I remember when I was a noob.

The reason the more experienced posters are annoyed is because some of you aren't using the search function.

There's an answer to almost every question you can think of if you actually read the whole thread.

[steveyos666]

The album gallery and picture gallery links don't work, latest/my/add links all work though. This might be because I'm the only user with an album though? I'm not sure, but either way it seems to be working besides that, but I'll have to get another member of my forum to make an album and see what happens.

[bad2dbone]

why do i get this where do i upload these files album mall.php n picall can any1 give me a detailed des on where to upload to file on my ftp?

Not Found

The requested URL /albumall.php was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache Server at www.horsepowertech.net Port 80

[bad2dbone]

can somebody help with this?

[Videx]

Originally Posted by bad2dbone

can somebody help with this?

I'm not sure how anyone can make it plainer than "copy the contents of the UPLOAD folder into your forum folder.".

If you've done that and are still having trouble, have you read this entire thread for a similar problem and a solution?

[bad2dbone]

Ya but not quite sure what the forum folder is exactly called theres no folder on my ftp called that

[Nightcop]

Originally Posted by bad2dbone

why do i get this where do i upload these files album mall.php n picall can any1 give me a detailed des on where to upload to file on my ftp?

Not Found

The requested URL /albumall.php was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache Server at www.horsepowertech.net Port 80

Same as what I get

[Videx]

Originally Posted by bad2dbone

Ya but not quite sure what the forum folder is exactly called theres no folder on my ftp called that

Maybe you just installed your forum into the root of your server. Not a good idea IMHO, but at any rate it's the folder with showpost.php and showthread.php.