User Profile Member Link for Coppermine Gallery

It?s my time to give back to the vb.org community. Our site is using Coppermine Photo Gallery for our members and we needed a way to have a link in the member?s profile that would go directly to their gallery and not just the general page. So, with a little bit of code, I wrote it. (very little that is) I felt there may be others that can use this little add-on to link there members too. If you use it please remember to click install, it will let me know if this hack was worth posting or not.


REQUIREMENTS: 1) Coppermine Gallery (http://coppermine-gallery.net/) 1.4.0 or better (Installed and working)
2) VB Bridge (Installed and working for Coppermine)

VERSION: 1.0

VERSIONS SUPPORTED: 3.5.X (maybe 3.6.x? but untested)

PROCESS: One plug-in install, and one template mod

INSTALL TIME: One minute or less

DIFFICULTY: Super Easy


INSTALL INSTRUCTIONS:
******* Step One *************
Download the CMG_memberlink_plugin.xml and add it as a new plug-in with the Plugin Manager in your AdminCP


******** Step Two *************
******** Add this line into your MEMBERINFO template where you want gallery link to show********
******** Make sure to edit the URL to point to your gallery *****

<a href="http://www.YOURDOMAINNAME.com/YOUR GALLERY/index.php?cat=$cmcatid" title="View My Gallery">View My Gallery</a>

******* Step Three ************
Click the install button on vBulletin.org

****** Step Four ************
Enjoy!

[Veer]

Thanks, any screen shoot?

[SIN77]

i was thinking about installing coppermine, if i do this will be a nice add on

[DILLIGAF]

Originally Posted by Pehchaan

Thanks, any screen shoot?

It's a bit hard to show a text link of what it does in a screen shot. All it does is add the members category id for coppermine to the end of the URL link to the gallery.

[blind-eddie]

How about a screen shot of your admincp and usercp?To show us what it will look like.Im just curious,This hack enables members with permission to start there own gallery? Or is this a done manually per member request?
I just want to make sure this is the hack I have been searching for. Thank You.

[DILLIGAF]

Originally Posted by blind-eddie

How about a screen shot of your admincp and usercp?To show us what it will look like.Im just curious,This hack enables members with permission to start there own gallery? Or is this a done manually per member request?
I just want to make sure this is the hack I have been searching for. Thank You.

Coppermine gives ever member their own gallery when you install the VB bridge for itl. It is a baic few steps to setup the bridge. The VB Bridge is included with Coppermine. The little hack I created just makes a link to the user's gallery for others to view.

[joeyhavlock]

What if the member has not created a gallery in coppermine yet?

[Konstantinos]

cool i was looking for this, works in 3.6.8

[zeus_r6]

works great...now to figure out how to get that link into the postbit!

[liquidrage]

To add it to your postbit.
Make this into an xml file.

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?> 
  <plugins>
  <plugin active="1">
  <title>CMG Post User</title> 
  <hookname>postbit_display_complete</hookname> 
  <phpcode>$cmuserid = sprintf("1%04d",$post['userid']);</phpcode> 
  </plugin>
  </plugins>

It is basically the same thing as the other one. You'll need both. Save it and import that.

Then, the HTML part in the postbit that you're adding will look like:

<a href="http://www.YOURDOMAINNAME.com/YOUR GALLERY/index.php?cat=$cmuserid " title="View My Gallery">View My Gallery</a>

Again, it's the same thing as above, just with a different variable name. The differences in the XML file are just the unique name, and that the hook fires are the postbit.

Example:
http://www.flyersphans.com/forums/