New Posting Features - Photo Popup - Insert pictures easily from vB Albums, Photopost, vBGallery, Photoplog

Whats new in Version 3.5

• now supports attachments
  • config file will be installed automatically (from folder UPLOAD/includes)
  • remember to add the product option "attachments" in your AdminCP when upgrading
  • make sure you reupload photo_popup.php
• new config file for CND Garage 2.x
  • new config file photo_popup_config_cndgarage.php
  • if you're using CND Garage in a lower version that 2.x,
    • and you're upgrading: just continue to use the old file
    • and you're doing a fresh install: delete the new config file, and rename photo_popup_config_cndgarage.php.old (remove the .old)

vB4 version available

What does it do?

When creating or editing a post, your users can open a popup window that will show them pictures in the chosen gallery or albums. Now also supports attachments: Reuse what you uploaded! A click on the picture inserts it into the editor.

Works with

• vBulletin 3.7.x and 3.8.x, vB Blog (probably anything that uses the vB editor)
• Photopost Pro
• Photopost vBGallery
• Photoplog
• CNG Garage

Detailed features list

• see second post

Installation

1. Extract the archive.
2. Upload the contents of folder "UPLOAD" to your forum root. Note how the folder structure in this folder mirrors the folder structure in your forum root, so every file will be in the right place.
3. a) If you intend to use only the vBulletin forums albums, proceed to step 4.
   b) If you intend to use any other gallery product, see "Product configuration" in second post.
4. Install the product.
5. a) If you are using Template Modification System (TMS), you're done.
   b) If not, do the template modifications explained in template_edits.txt manually.

Basic Configuration

• if you're using only vB albums, everything is done via AdminCP->Options->Photo-Popup
• Decide there how many rows and columns the popup table will have, what gallery products to use, which insert options you want to allow, activate code mode on a usergroup permission basis, or activate debug mode
• See "Product Configuration" in second post.

Upgrade

• Just reimport the product-xml-file, overwriting the old version, and reupload the photo-popup.php.
• Please check in config_file_versions.txt whether the config file for one of the products you use has been changed since last update.
• If the config file for one of your products has been updated, upload it from config files folder to your includes directory. Don't forget to take note of any any changes and settings in the old file and adapt the new one accordingly, if necessary.

Support and debugging

Ill help whenever I find the time. Before asking, please activate debug mode and post the information given there (especially under "Code". Please try the two links given - do they look "normal" and do they work? Debug information is only shown to Administrators (usergroup 6). Always state the products you use, including the software versions. Also read the infromation in the second post of this thread.


Hopes for the future
World peace, happiness, health and lot's of money


Version history

• Version 3.5
  • new: supports attachments
  • new config file for CND Garage > 2.x
• Version 3.4 / 3.4.1: Album dropdown not populated if using mysqli,Photopost not saving medium sized images, Fix for PHP 5.3.0 related bug (bugfixes)
• Version 3.3 new/updated config file vBGallery (bugfixes); session-handling fixed; workaround for vbseo problem with Firefox in WYSIWYG editor
  • Important: template edits have to be redone!In every manually done template edit find: photo_popup.php?e=$editorid and replace with photo_popup.php?$session[sessionurl]e=$editorid
• Version 3.2 new/updated product config file vBGallery (bugfixes), some additional error checking and error messages, debug information enhanced
• Version 3.1 new/updated product config files: cnd garage (thanks to wottech for cooperation), photoplog categories, photoplog albums, photoplog, vBGallery; some additional cookie error checking; error checking in AdminCP removed; bugfixes from this thread.
• Version 3.0 code reorganisation: implemeting of new galleries made easier by outsourcing of the relevant settings and database queries into seperate config files; new feature: support for vBGallery and Photoplog (lite?) added; minor bugfixes
• 3.0.1 Important bugfix if you are using vB albums: wrong database query in config file. To fix this, it's enough to reupload photo_popup_config_albums.
• 2.2 New feature: 2 plugins to show correct location and activity in "who's online". Bugfix: Bit of unphrased German removed from template (in pagenav dropdown). For upgrade from 2.1 just import product file, no uploads necessary.
• 2.1 New feature: Code mode. Lets you see the corresponding bb- or html-code instead of sending the image to the editor. If your browser allows that, the code is also copied to clipboard. Bugfix: Fixed a problem where pagination misbehaved when working with vB albums
• 2.0 New feature: Support for quickreply and quickedit!
• 1.4 New feature: Three new insert-options: thumbnail, medium and original image not linked themselves, but with a link to the gallery/album in the line below. This should be especially interesting for the users of the image resizer mod.
• 1.3 feature improvement/bugfix: default popup size is now determined before opening, not after (window.resize method causing issues in Firefox). Auto-close of the popup now using the YUI Event Listener; the needed library is already part of vB's standard distribution. New feature: title bar with "close this window"-link.
• 1.2 new feature: popup closes after editing is completed; smaller changes in Layout
• 1.1 new feature:set popup window size, to go with your table settings; minor bugfixes
  
• 1.0 Initial release

Development and bugfix releases for config files
If the need arises, there will be development or bugfix releases of config files between official releases of this mod. The zip file attached to this post will always be up to date. At the moment, there are no development/bugfix-releases.


Translations
Deutsche ?bersetzung bei vbulletin-germany.org.
Arabian translation, thanks to Subah.
Russian translation, thanks to nohuhu.


Screenshots
AdminCP, Photopost settings, Photo Popup in action, quickreply

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[cellarius]

Originally Posted by KenDude

Your vbgallery directory structure is not parsed correctly.

It is - for the newest release that I am running for testing purposes. Your directory structure reflects an older version. A fix for this has been posted somewhere in this thread. Just search for it.

[cellarius]

Originally Posted by KenDude

FYI I have the latest and greatest vbgallery, and it needed this too!

So maybe it does not change a directory structure that is already in place. Anyway, my installation uses the 1/2/3/4 format. If anyone can clarify when vBG uses which format and whether there is an easy way to detect it, I'll happily adapt the mod. As long as this is not the case, vBG-users who have 1234-structure will have to apply that patch.

[0ptima]

the 1234-structure is used when php is in safe mode.

[0ptima]

Originally Posted by cellarius

So maybe it does not change a directory structure that is already in place. Anyway, my installation uses the 1/2/3/4 format. If anyone can clarify when vBG uses which format and whether there is an easy way to detect it, I'll happily adapt the mod. As long as this is not the case, vBG-users who have 1234-structure will have to apply that patch.

My gallery uses the 1/2/3/4 format (the format used when you are not using safemode) and this hack worked fine for me as my user ID is 1. When I switched to a test user with ID 123, the hack stopped working. I had to apply the patch provided by wottech here.

To determine whether a gallery is using safemode, in ACP, go to VbGallery -> Maintenance and scroll to the bottom.

BTW, this is a great hack !

[tandy]

Originally Posted by abroad

vb Albums: Did anybody figure out how to fix it? Can't insert pictures from the popup window.

I have the same problem, i do the same on 2 of my site, one is working, the other does not, in the second i have the popup window but can't insert picture from album, and in the bottom of both popup windows i have error in page.

[cellarius]

Originally Posted by 0ptima

My gallery uses the 1/2/3/4 format (the format used when you are not using safemode) and this hack worked fine for me as my user ID is 1. When I switched to a test user with ID 123, the hack stopped working. I had to apply the patch provided by wottech here.

To determine whether a gallery is using safemode, in ACP, go to VbGallery -> Maintenance and scroll to the bottom.

BTW, this is a great hack !

Thanks - for the compliments and the hint concerning safe mode.

New config file for vbGallery!
v 3.1b

So - there's just another new config file for vBGallery with the following fixes and new features:

• Photo Popup determins correct folder structure
  by checking whether vBG is running in safe mode environment and setting the folder structure accordingly. This is determined by a variable that vBG sets in its config database. The code for pulling together I borrowed from wottech, who posted a fix here.
• Photo Popup now checks whether vBG is set to save the originally uploaded images.
  If this is the case, all "original"-options for inserting the images are linked to those original images, the images shown in the Gallery are linked to the "medium" options. If original size images are not safed, the behaviour is as it was up to now: The images shown in the Gallery are linked to the "original" options, the "medium" options are disabled. If you have "save originals on upload" active but do not want to allow them to be inserted, you can set the new "original_override"-switch at the top of the config file to "TRUE".

Please check out the new config file and report any bugs here

File removed for a later version, check next posts!

[KenDude]

But wait there's more! Sorry but you have another error in the code as well with vbgallery.

If a user uploads a photo titled MyPhoto.JPG into vbgallery, vbg will create a thumbnail called MyPhoto_thumb.jpg by default.

However, your code in the pop up window is looking for MyPhoto_thumb.JPG (extension in caps like the original file) and so the user will see red x's instead of thumbnails when they look through their images because Linux treats the file extensions in a case sensitive manner.

Now if you click on that red x inserted thumbnail it WILL take you to the correct full size photo because the full size photo does end in .JPG or whatever the all caps extension happened to be.

This should be as easy as making the _thumb file always end in a lowercase version of whatever the original extension is or else storing the actual thumbnail file name or checking it in some way.

For now I have told my members NOT to choose the thumbnail insertion when looking through their vbgallery files to insert but to choose full size insertion until the code can be fixed to handle the file extension case problem.

Thanks in advance for the fix, sorry to keep piling these on you, but my members are a picky bunch and usually find any issues with any code with any browser, etc...

[cellarius]

Originally Posted by KenDude

If a user uploads a photo titled MyPhoto.JPG into vbgallery, vbg will create a thumbnail called MyPhoto_thumb.jpg by default.

Correct. So far I follow you when trying to reproduce this.

However, your code in the pop up window is looking for MyPhoto_thumb.JPG (extension in caps like the original file) and so the user will see red x's instead of thumbnails when they look through their images because Linux treats the file extensions in a case sensitive manner.

Hm, that's where I'm losing you: the code for the thumbnails is genereted by strtolower-ing the file extension, thus it is always lowercase.

Now if you click on that red x inserted thumbnail it WILL take you to the correct full size photo because the full size photo does end in .JPG or whatever the all caps extension happened to be.

Actually, the path and filename used to show the thumbnails in the popup window and for the insertion process come from exactly the same variable - they can not be different. Their extensions both have to be lowercase.
By the way: If I'm uploading an image that has a uppercase extension, vBG changes the original uppercase extension to lowercase.

This should be as easy as making the _thumb file always end in a lowercase version

That's what the script does at the moment, actually...

Thanks in advance for the fix, sorry to keep piling these on you, but my members are a picky bunch and usually find any issues with any code with any browser, etc...

No problem, really. Since I do not use vBG in a productive environment, I don't have the ability to do such intensive testing. This way, sooner or later we'll get it goin'

So, after some more thinking, I decided to take more information directly from the database. All filenames - thumbs, originals, everything including extensions - are now taken directly from the database and thus should mirror exactly what vBG uses. If it works there, it should also work with this mod. Please test the attached config file and see whether it solves the problem. If not, please check whether vBG indeed saves original files with uppercase extensions (which it does not for me - and I was unable to find an option in the vBG settings, tho I did not look too hard) and provide the content of the debug table field for "Code".

[cellarius]

Originally Posted by tandy

I have the same problem, i do the same on 2 of my site, one is working, the other does not, in the second i have the popup window but can't insert picture from album, and in the bottom of both popup windows i have error in page.

Since the error descriptions on this have been more than vague up to now, there really is no way to address this issue. I do not experience any errors. At least state which browser you are using and what the error is (exact error message!). Are you sure you have uploaded the latest version of photo_popup.php?

[KenDude]

Thanks for looking into this. Since I've had vbgallery for a couple of years there is some chance that vbgallery has changed over time. I have confirmed that a member who uploaded a photo ending in .JPG has a thumb ending in .jpg and hence has a red x problem. I am out of town currently but will return tomorrow and will try your new config file to see if it takes care of the problem by pulling the names directly from the database. I would hope that it would since the database could contain photos that vbgallery has stored differently at different times.

I was going to ask about your config setting for storing the original file. While there IS a setting for that in vbgallery to apply universally I don't use it. By default if someone uploads it creates a thumbnail and resizes to say 800x600 or whatever my default settings are. However, you can override that with settings for each category and in fact I do that. So I have some categories where say an image that is 3000x2000 will be uploaded and a thumbnail is created, an 800x600 version is created and the original 3000x2000 image is also saved. I don't know if running vbgallery in this way poses a problem for your mod if users try to insert say a medium sized photo or the original, etc. I just wanted to point out that some of us don't use the save original setting universally, but rather use it for only certain categories. Hope that helps!