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

[bad2dbone]

Originally Posted by Videx

Maybe you just installed your forum into the root of your server. Not a good idea IMHO, but at any rate it's the folder with showpost.php and showthread.php.

Thanks it worked thanks a bunch

[clubvr4]

Does this mod allow for the following situation.

Admin creates album.
All Members can add to that album?

For example, i create a album for a car show our club went to, then all the people who attended can add their images (but not delete) to the same album, keeping everything uniform.

Cheers.

[KW802]

Originally Posted by clubvr4

Does this mod allow for the following situation.

Admin creates album.
All Members can add to that album?

For example, i create a album for a car show our club went to, then all the people who attended can add their images (but not delete) to the same album, keeping everything uniform.

Cheers.

No. This mod does not change the basic functionality of the stock vB "Albums" but rather presents the data in a different fashion.

[KW802]

Originally Posted by Wayne Luke

... I didn't like that the Navtab presentation was a dropdown menu and different than my other tabs. So I edited the system to work like other tabs. ...

Mind if I run with your idea and post an update? I started with your original post but ran into a few issues (some missing curly braces to close the phrase names, sessionurl instead of sessionurl_q, etc.) and before I knew it I ended up adding code to cache the template (that will eliminate an extra query on every page) and also added a link for "Latest Albums" on the "What's New" tab.

[Wayne Luke]

Originally Posted by KW802

Mind if I run with your idea and post an update? I started with your original post but ran into a few issues (some missing curly braces to close the phrase names, sessionurl instead of sessionurl_q, etc.) and before I knew it I ended up adding code to cache the template (that will eliminate an extra query on every page) and also added a link for "Latest Albums" on the "What's New" tab.

That is fine.

Actually have the template cached in another plugin assigned to the cache_templates hook. Would be good to have it assigned to the product though. I have a product just for the site that contains the plugin currently.

PHP Code:

if (THIS_SCRIPT == 'vbcms')
{
    $cache[] = 'forumhome_loggedinuser';
}

if (THIS_SCRIPT == 'index')
{
    $cache[] = 'block_users_online';
}

$cache[] = 'gallery_navbar_link'; 


Have a plugin to group the templates as well. It is assigned to the template_groups hook.

PHP Code:

$only['gallery_'] = $vbphrase['group_gallery']; 


[KW802]

Originally Posted by Wayne Luke

...Have a plugin to group the templates as well. It is assigned to the template_groups hook. ...

One ahead of you.


I'll post the product XML in a minute.

[KW802]

Originally Posted by Wayne Luke

... I didn't like that the Navtab presentation was a dropdown menu and different than my other tabs. So I edited the system to work like other tabs. ...

Attached is a vB product XML (done with vB 4.1.3) that started off as a result of Wayne posting his original alternate navbar idea (see the past few posts above for the rest of the details ).

This product will do the following for you...

• Add a new "Gallery" button to your navbar in the same style as the stock vB buttons. The new templates will be cached.
  • After clicking "Gallery" you will then get links for "Album Gallery", "Picture Gallery", "Latest Albums", "My Albums", and "Add Album" in the sub-menu area.
• Add a new "Latest Albums" link to your "What's New" button menu.
• Group the various "Gallery" templates together.

Yep, just some very minor little things but it gives a clean overall integration feel. Attached are screen shots of what a logged in user will see.


EDIT: For those that may not have a lot of uploads, I recommend increasing the number of days for uploads to show up in the "Latest Albums" search results so that you're less likely to get a blank page when hitting that link (ACP => Settings => Options => User Profile: Album Options => Recent Album Update Days).

[doctorsexy]

i just get a white screen... all installed ok..

[lyalybagdad]

<a href="http://www.lyalybagdad.com/albumall" target="_blank">http://www.lyalybagdad.com/albumall</a>

[nurga]

This plugin is working great for me, I'd like to display a random image from the gallery on my home page. I'm curious where the plugin stores these images on the server for me to pull from?