Major Additions - [DBTech] Dragonbyte Gallery v1 (vB4)

Dragonbyte Gallery is a fully functional gallery system addon for your forum that will allow your users to create their own photo albums to store and display their images. You can run multiple instance of the gallery on the same site with the same files, yet have a completely different look and function because of the modular sytem it was built on. Users can customize how their gallery profile is displayed on each instance.

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Major Features

Multiple Instances You can run an unlimited number instances of the gallery on the same forum with same set of files! Each instance can have a different look and feel to it, and with enough work can have a completely different function because of the system we built it on.

AJAX integration We used AJAX wherever we could to help reduce the page reloads

Automatic resizing and thumbnail creation As long as your server can handle it, the users can upload whatever size pictures they want. The gallery will control the size displayed and stored, and will even create a thumbnail, all automatically. Users no longer have to worry about resizing their images to fit what your forum specifies. If you do not have a server with the power to resize images (GD image library can get pretty memory intensive) then you can set the gallery to reject images that do not fit into your size criteria.

User Albums Users can create their own image albums to organize and display sets of their images. Albums can also be set to hidden and/or password protected. So users who want to have images for only certain friends or not visible to anyone else at all can easily organize them.


Complete Feature List (Lite)

• Albums
  • Public or Hidden - Images in a hidden album will not be visible to users other then that owner
  • Album icon will display latest image added to it
• Images
  • Image paths are hidden through the php files, so it keeps users from browsing your image folder without going through your page
  • Camera images will be prepopulated with camera information from jpeg images
  • Images resized and thumbnails created automatically on upload
• Comments and Rating
  • Users can comment on individual images
  • Users can rate images
  • Users can comment on user profiles
  • Easily integrates with Advanced Post Thanks/Likes mod
  • OOB integration for twitter, google+, pinterest and facebook!
• Can upload multiple files with one selector (HTML5 browsers only)
• Unique user profile per each gallery instance
• Users can customize their profile display per instance
• Can search by tags, title, description or owner
• CMS widget to display latest, highest rated or most viewed image or latest albums
• Forum sidebar block to display latest, highest rated or most viewed image or latest albums
• Forumhome box to display latest, highest rated or most viewed image or latest albums
• Subscribe to users and receive notification when new images are added
• A lot of AJAX integration to reduce page reloads
• vBShout Integration to create shouts on new images and comments
  
  ACP
• Gallery Settings
  • Multiple gallery instances
  • Mass import from ACP
  • Import from vB Albums and vB Gallery
  • Gallery Navigation Link Name
  • Modular layout so each instance can have it's own look and feel
  • Multiple layers of categories
  • Usergroup permissions per instance
    • Can View Gallery
    • Can Add Album
    • Can Upload Images
    • Can Rate Images
    • Can Delete Images
    • Can Delete Others Images
    • Can Comment
    • Can Delete Comments
    • Can Delete Others Comments
    • # of Albums
    • # of Images
  • Custom fields on image page
    • Single line text field
    • Multiple line textarea
    • Select Dropdown
    • Grouped Checkboxes
    • Grouped Radio buttons
• Gallery General Settings
  • Turn Gallery system on/off
  • CMS widget settings and number to display
  • Choose from two different styles of image views
  • Settings to change your gallery filename as well as ability to run it outside of the forum root directory!
• Gallery Image Settings
  • Change location of gallery images
  • Are images downloadable?
  • Choose to automatically resize images or force users to upload images within your set range
  • Image count settings
  • Enable/Disable twitter integration
  • Enable/Disable google+ integration
  • Enable/Disable pinterest integration
  • Enable/Disable facebook integration

Complete Feature List (Pro)

• Albums
  • Password Protected - Only users with the password will be able to view the albums images. They can see the thumbnail view but will not be able to browse to the album view
• Images
  • Admin can select if images will be watermarked or not.
  • Watermark can be dynicamic or Etched. Dynamic for powerful servers will little space, Etched for less powerful servers and more space.
  • Watermark can be an image or text, located in several different locations over the image
• Comments and Rating
  • Easily add/remove images as your favorites
  ACP
• Gallery Settings
  • Usergroup permissions per instance
    • Max Image Width
    • Max Image Height
    • Max Thumb Width
    • Max Thumb Height
• Gallery Watermark Settings
  • Select if you want to use text, image or no watermark
  • Select if you want to have dynamic or etched watermarks
  • Several different text watermark and image watermark positions to choose from

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[kylek]

THinking of trying this out but looked at a few sites that have this installed and have yet to see one where the categories showed. Does anyone have the categories showing?

[dknelson]

Originally Posted by bzcomputers

I would say shortly they will be on par with each other and very soon after that, Dragonbyte Gallery will be the leader.

...this is just one man's opinion

Photopost vbGallery
Photopost has been around for years with their product and it has had time to mature and is a pretty clean and refined product now. Photopost works well but can be a little intimidating setting it up and tweaking it to get it the way you want it. On the other side the support for vbGallery I have found to be almost non-existent. If you have an idea or an issue, don't hold your breath on getting it fixed/implemented. Their updates are few and far between and don't expect any new features/additions in the lifetime of your product license - they will most likely not be coming. I believe Photopost became complacent because up until now competition was lacking, especially on the vBulletin side for galleries.

Dragonbyte Gallery
Dragonbyte Gallery is a new product. From it's initial release just two months ago to the current product I think it has come a long way. The initial setup is much more straight forward (as compared to Photopost) and user friendly enough even for a novice. Support is second to none (as is with all Dragonbyte products from my experience). Every suggestion and comment made to them is truly taken into consideration. Their implementation of bug fixes, tweaks and additional features seems to be continual. The only thing that I believe holding Dragonbyte Gallery back at this point is the lack in number of users and good feedback, since it is such a new product. My suggestion is to jump on board and give it a run - I don't think you will be disappointed, this product is going places! Use it, let them now what you like and don't like. The more feedback they get, the better the product we all will get.

Like I said at the top, I believe it is almost inevitable the way things are going that the true leader in vBulletin gallery software will soon be Dragonbyte Gallery.

I agree with a lot of this opinion but not all. I disagree with the part about support. I have been a user of Photo Classifieds for many years and have found the support to be very good. A bit abrupt at times but I'm sure that I would get that way also if I had to answer the same questions over and over again. Especially from people like me who simply didn't read the install instructions closely enough. I recently upgraded to the newest version of Photo Classifieds and am very impressed with it.

I'm a relatively new user of DragonBytes software. I AM a paying customer of the Thank You mod pro version and it works very well. I presently have the Lite version of Gallery installed and have mixed feelings. At this time, I am really struggling with the decision to stick with it or go with PhotoPost. A couple of small missing but I think essential features is one reason and the fact that I can't seem to get a response at the Dragonbytes forum is the main reason. I am getting a database error. I posted about it at his forum and have received no response. I typically get a response at the PhotoPost forum at least within a couple of hours. From a style standpoint, that is where the polished Photopost has a bit of an advantage. A lot of options for small things like the frames around images and etc. that really help tailor it to the look that you want. I think that would be a nice feature to be added to the Pro version.

I have also asked about adding a link to the users gallery from the Postbit and also their Profile. To me those are very basic and essential features. I posted a question about it on the Dragonbyte site about 3 days ago and not a single response. I posted some code that ALMOST works but not quite. I'm sure that somebody who is a real coder could answer it within minutes but nothing.

At this point, I am leaning towards PhotoPost again due to the lack of support from DragonBytes. It is even causing me to have some buyers remorse about buying the pro version of the Thank You mod.

I admit though that the Gallery is a nice product and other than a couple of small things that should be standard even in the lite version, I think they have done a good job with it.

[kylek]

I was an avid photopost user (use on 4 sites) but am now looking for alternatives since they have raised the forum support yearly access from $39 to $99 a year. And wouldn't you know it, a week after mine expired I needed the info thats sitting in a support thread to move a photopost pro gallery to another server and to get it now it will cost $99 to get access to their support forums.

[dknelson]

OK...I'm not a coder by any means so this took me longer than I really want to admit. I've seen this asked a few times though so here is what worked for me.

Edit template "Postbit".

Now you can put this where you want but this puts it just under the username in the Postbit.

In template "Postbit". Find:

{vb:raw post.onlinestatus}

Just after that, paste:

<div class="smallfont"><a href="http://www.yoursite.com/forum/dbtgallery.php?do=view_user&id={vb:raw post.userid}">User Gallery</a></div>

Of course change the URL to the actual URL to your specific forum.

[dknelson]

By the way, the next thing I want to do is to change the link in the members profile to point to the DBGallery. I see no reason to have two different galleries so plan to disable the builtin VBulletin gallery. Hopefully it will be easier for me to figure out.

[kylek]

Anyone point me in the direction of what these errors show? I think its installed right but when I upload a photo I get the missing image and these errors at the top.

Warning: imagepng(..../..../dbtech/gallery/images/upload/1/5/6/5/thumb/6_1417470970.png): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in ..../dbtech/gallery/includes/class_core.php on line 939

Warning: imagepng(..../..../dbtech/gallery/images/upload/1/5/6/5/full/6_1417470970.png): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in ..../dbtech/gallery/includes/class_core.php on line 939

Warning: filesize(): stat failed for ..../..../dbtech/gallery/images/upload/1/5/6/5/full/6_1417470970.png in ..../dbtech/gallery/includes/class_core.php on line 815

Warning: filesize(): stat failed for ..../..../dbtech/gallery/images/upload/1/5/6/5/thumb/6_1417470970.png in ..../dbtech/gallery/includes/class_core.php on line 816

[kylek]

Found the problem and its fine now.

In image options > image upload path I had full path to where you want images uploaded to. Switched it back to the default dbtech/gallery/images/upload/ and its all working now with no errors.

[kylek]

When we go to delete an image the delete popup box flies in and flies halfway off the right hand side of the screen. Anyone know where to find the setting for this?

Nearest I can find is the left setting but cant find where to change it.

element {
display: inline;
left: 1315px;
top: 1417px;

[lazee]

I've installed this mod last week and everything went smooth and it is easy to get around, the two thing that i don't know is after upload a picture then it show a white page with save all , if i skip it or not it doesn't break any thing just wonder why it there.

The second thing is the comments system not support other language or unicode, is there any way to fix this. thank you.

Ps:Thank DragonByte for this nice mod.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by kylek

When we go to delete an image the delete popup box flies in and flies halfway off the right hand side of the screen. Anyone know where to find the setting for this?

Nearest I can find is the left setting but cant find where to change it.

element {
display: inline;
left: 1315px;
top: 1417px;

Does this happen on a default (unmodified) skin? What's your resolution?

Originally Posted by lazee

I've installed this mod last week and everything went smooth and it is easy to get around, the two thing that i don't know is after upload a picture then it show a white page with save all , if i skip it or not it doesn't break any thing just wonder why it there.

The second thing is the comments system not support other language or unicode, is there any way to fix this. thank you.

Ps:Thank DragonByte for this nice mod.

Make sure you have display_errors turned on in php.ini.


Fillip