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

[Garamond]

Is there an importer available so we can move all PhotoPost pictures over to vB Albums?

[trilogy33]

Originally Posted by Black-CA

@HCGB

I like your mod. Is it possible to change height or wide to get the whole information in one lane below the pictures? Separated for example

• First ==> Album: "Title of the album"
• Second ==> by: "username" on "Date"

Attachment 115474

As there's no character limit to album titles, I also see the overrun of text at the base of the album placeholder. So, a quick workaround is to modify the CSS...

In: album.css

#latestalbumcontainer li

Find:

height:{vb:math {vb:raw vboptions.attachthumbssize} + {vb:stylevar font.fontSize}*{vb:stylevar line_height}*2 + {vb:stylevar small_fontSize}*{vb:stylevar line_height}*2 + {vb:stylevar padding} / 2};

Replace with:

height:190px;

190px I've found is ample on my test installation.

Hope this helps in the meantime



Addendum:

.albumlist_entry {
float:{vb:stylevar left};
margin-{vb:stylevar left}:{vb:math {vb:stylevar padding} *2 +5};
margin-top:{vb:math {vb:stylevar padding}*2};
padding: 0 {vb:math {vb:stylevar padding}+5} {vb:stylevar padding} {vb:math {vb:stylevar padding}+5};
text-align:{vb:stylevar left};
display:block;
width:{vb:raw vboptions.attachthumbssize}px;
height:{vb:math {vb:raw vboptions.attachthumbssize} + {vb:stylevar font.fontSize}*{vb:stylevar line_height}*2 + {vb:stylevar small_fontSize}*{vb:stylevar line_height}*2 + {vb:stylevar padding} / 2};
overflow:hidden;
border: {vb:stylevar albumlist_entry_border};
background:{vb:stylevar albumlist_entry_background};
-moz-box-shadow: -2px 2px 2px {vb:stylevar shadow_color};
-webkit-box-shadow: -2px 2px 2px {vb:stylevar shadow_color};
}


Alter the line in red to whatever height suits e.g.
height:190px;

[abroad]

does not work with 4.03...

This product is not compatible with version 4.0.3 of vBulletin. (Compatible starting with 4.0.2 / Incompatible with 4.0.3 and greater)

[trilogy33]

Fine under 4.0.3

[kaposer]

May I suggest adding a "Gallery Rules" position to the drop down menu, linking to a posting rules page? Some sites won't accept nudity for exemple, and it should be clearly specified.

Thanks again

[conradk]

Thanks for this.

[Videx]

Feature suggestion: Show random pictures no older than x days.

Problem: Selecting 'new' pictures means the pictures are static with only the same last ~5 pics showing all the time. Selecting 'Random' pics shows pics 5 years old as well as newer pics, with no way to weight the display towards newer pics.

[YankForum]

installed on 4.0.1 and is working great

[Farstate]

Originally Posted by abroad

does not work with 4.03...

This product is not compatible with version 4.0.3 of vBulletin. (Compatible starting with 4.0.2 / Incompatible with 4.0.3 and greater)

I can confirm this - does not work with 4.03.

To replicate:

• Upgraded forum to 4.03
• Tried to install product-gallery-107.xml
• Error given as above

[Farstate]

Further to my previous post, the following work-around got the gallery mod working:

1. In product-gallery-107.xml, find line 10 (<dependency dependencytype="vbulletin" minversion="4.0.2" maxversion="4.0.3" />)
2. Changed 4.0.3 to 4.0.4 (<dependency dependencytype="vbulletin" minversion="4.0.2" maxversion="4.0.4" />)