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

[Bozza]

When the mod description says...

"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."

...does all include attachments? I've installed as I want a way to 'unlock' many years of attached images on my site but I'm not convinced this is showing me them.

[chocolate angel]

thank you so much for this mod. works great on 4.1.3.

[RF600]

You can also submit comments to the pictures?

[8thos]

Originally Posted by RF600

You can also submit comments to the pictures?

Yes.

[av8or1]

Installed. Seems to work just fine with 4.1.3. Thanks!

EDIT: I have customized my version though to suit my own tastes just a bit. Hope that's ok. Thanks again! :up:

[rootsxrocks]

another basic Feature that should already be standard

[RF600]

is there a possibility to create a category where the user upload the pictures to? for example, cars, nature and a few other

or is there something else that I can take it. what is free. ;-)

[denman75]

thank you for this modification its great

But i use a fixed template ,but i dont want the pics show next to each other, but for example in rows , 3 rows with 4 pictures width in stead of one long horizontal line of pictures is this possible?
now if i set more than 4 pictures they stand next to my template
sorry for the bad English ill ad a picture to explain it a bit better
if its possible

[Methok]

Hi,

Any way to have the mod display the Exif data? maybe below or to the side of the image when viewed in the album?

- Methok

[Rahstyles]

Problem.. vb albums is saying cant show image cause theres an error