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

[coffeelover]

Just installed and everything seems to look right in the menu, but the "Album Gallery" and "Picture Gallery" links just lead to blank pages. Any ideas what I need to do to fix this?

...Nevermind, just figured it out. Thanks!

[NTMID8]

What did you do to fix for the Picture Gallery?

[coffeelover]

Originally Posted by NTMID8

What did you do to fix for the Picture Gallery?

I inadvertently saved the files in the upload folder to my upload folder - when I moved them outside the upload folder (where they are suppose to be), the links worked.

[coffeelover]

Is there any way to change the default size of the album and picture border that surround the images? By default, they are huge. I noticed in the developers screenshot that the images were more like thumbnails. Is this something that can be adjusted in vBulletin, this mod or directly in the code somewhere?

[The Rocketeer]

Originally Posted by coffeelover

Is there any way to change the default size of the album and picture border that surround the images? By default, they are huge. I noticed in the developers screenshot that the images were more like thumbnails. Is this something that can be adjusted in vBulletin, this mod or directly in the code somewhere?

it is possible, but I forgot how, its in the css.


but thats why I suggested the modded to fix the values so no matter what we set out thumbnails to be the images are always set as small. get it?

Can anybody please help?

[orangefive]

Is is possible to have gallerys created by a mod for events then everyone can upload pictures from the event to the event gallery - that would roooool!

[NTMID8]

Originally Posted by orangefive

Is is possible to have gallerys created by a mod for events then everyone can upload pictures from the event to the event gallery - that would roooool!

Agreed. This would be a phenomenal addition.

[FudgeBalls2002]

Can you please tell me how to edit the color of the font and/or background of the leave comments box beneath a picture? The font shows up the same color as the background making it invisible.

[danhaga]

Is there a way to make it possible for others to post images in galleries you created?

I would like to have just a few set albums that any registered member can add photos to.

[fmgrowit]

I've been looking for a photo gallery for my forum for a while now. Since the developer of this mod seems to have abandoned this thread, would anyone recommend installing this mod?

I'm not a designer/coder/programer and the last thing I need is another headache on my site. Someday if the site ever gets big enough, I'll hire a full time tech, but until then, I can't even find someone to design a stinking title banner. (and to answer the developer's question to an early problem with someone else...no, I don't have time to read 40 pages of posted to try to understand this mod, the install or the bugs.)