Social Group and Album Enhancements - [Scandal's] vBGallery

Description
Turn your vBulletin Album system to an organized Gallery. Watch presentation!

The basic idea of Scandal's vBGallery is to organize vBulletin Albums AND forum attachments (pictures) to a section with lots of functions (categories, search, latest objects, statistics, menus etc).
Designed for vBulletin 4.2.0 (otherwise you must add the navbar links manually).



Features:
- Categories system for Albums (like Forums for threads)
- Five (5) levels of subcategories allowed
- Album, picture and comment search
- Who browsing Gallery (= Gallery Home, Albums, Pictures)
- Gallery statistics
- Forum attachments gallery (with ability to act it as category)
- Pages: latest pictures - latest albums - latest comments (with feature to turn them to "All")
- "My Comments" feature (display all user comments)
- My Pictures/Albums in "this" category
- Ability to set custom statusicons to categories
- Notifications to users with "uncategorized" albums to move them
- Ability to hide empty categories (= with 0 albums)
- Admincp environment
- No annoying copyright info

Language Packs:
- Deutsch (Sie) - Deutsch (Du)


Installation:
1. Upload all files of folder "upload" to your forum root.
2. Import *xml product.
3. (Important) Open template album_edit and find:

<fieldset class="blockrow">

add below:

<vb:if condition="$vboptions['sc_gallery_onoff']">
{vb:raw formdata.catid}
</vb:if>

Done!

Upgrade:
1. FIRST OF ALL: Upload and replace all files of folder "upload" to your forum root.
2. THEN: Import XML product with "Allow Overwrite" to YES.

Who can view vBGallery;
Access to vBGallery has all members who belongs to usergroups with "Can View Albums" to YES.

What if I decide to turn off or uninstall vBGallery;
You are back to Albums without data lose (except the category of each Album - function of this hack).

How could I change the size of Gallery's thumbnails?
vBGallery use the thumbnail size you have set via admincp. To change it go to:
Admincp > Options > Message Attachment Options
... and set your value to "Thumbnail Size"
... afterwards you must rebuild attachment thumbnails at: Maintenance > General Update Tools > Rebuild Attachment Thumbnails

How to install navbar links (for vBulletin 4.0.X - 4.1.X)
Read this post

*Links (for vBulletin 4.0.X - 4.1.X)
::Screenshot::::..
GALLERY:
->/gallery.php

My Stuff:
(My Albums)-> /album.php
(Add Album)-> /album.php?do=addalbum
(My Comments)->/gallery.php?do=mycomments
(Pending Albums)->/gallery.php?do=pending

(Latest Pictures)->/gallery.php?do=latestpictures
(Latest Albums)->/gallery.php?do=latestalbums
(Latest Comments)->/gallery.php?do=latestcomments
(Search)->/gallery.php?do=search


Changelog:
v1.0 first release (beta)
v1.2 second release
- New layout choice for galleridisplay: Grid layout with feature to change the width of albumbits via admincp
- Integration of vBulletin's sidebar with Gallery Home (admin can enable or disable it on admincp)
- New feature: flood check and character limit check for the search engine
- Improved breadcrumb (add category name to navbit) ("Gallery > {category name} > Member List > {username} > Albums > {album name}" )
- "Inverse pyramid like" statistics for categories [a main category "has" the albums of its subcategories - like forum statistics (threads/posts) works for subforums]
- New feature: admin can enable/disable the view of empty categories (= categories with 0 Albums)
- New feature: admin can enable/disable the use of search engine by guests
- Building of Gallery Statistics by cronjob (= refresh every one hour). Very important for server performance.
- 1 bug fixed
v1.5 third release
- Classic layout abolished
- New: Notification feature = users with Albums in category "Uncategorized" auto-notified by the system to move them to a subject category (pending albums)
- New feature: admin can set if he want him users to display Albums or Pictures when open the categories.
- New: menus "Browse Albums" & "Browse Pictures" on Gallery Display (user can navigate the albums/pictures in the category)
- New: My albums/pictures in "this" category feature
- Admincp environment improved (List Albums)
- 3 bugs fixed
v1.6 fourth release
- Galleryhome: fixed the view of description for header categories
- New feature: ability to add custom statusicons to categories (screenshot)
- 1 phrase undefined variable fix
- pending albums: 1 bug fixed
v2.0 fifth release
- New feature: forum pictures attachment gallery (with ability to turn it as gallery category)
- search feature for attachment gallery
- 1 phrase issue fixed
- 1 bug fixed
v2.1
- better attachments gallery popup

Developer's notice: I give support only for code errors, not for style problems.

Tested on vBulletin 4.2.0

[Leica.Robbiani]

Hi there,

gallery.php gives back a blank page on vb4.0.6.

Best regards

L.R.

[BaanFarsang]

There are problems on Non-English language/UTF-8 translation!

[Athena1984]

This is a great modification! Some ideas for future releases, I would like to see the categories displayed as a side menu as opposed to the forum like display kind of like a widget. I would also like to see the ability to create more subcategories. I also think the album display should be easier to edit. I don't like how close the image is to the wording and it's taking me some time to figure out how to change this. Other than that, I think this looks really promising and I can't wait to see what you come up with next.

[jo8jo]

Works fine on my vB 4.2 PL1.
Some ideas for future releases:
- configuration for album thumbnail size (e.g. via ACP)
- easier edit of albumdisplay
- show picture comments & infos below the picture

Anyway this looks really promising

[midwan]

Looks really good so far, we've installed it and are really happy with the way it integrates with VB 4.2.0.

Some sort of moderation on new uploads would be nice to see in a next version!

[victorvu]

Hi:

I installed it and set up a few catagories and it went smoothly. When creating albums, it did not let me choose a catgory. I have about 20 catagories created, but only see one with one sub-catagory, a short list. The rest is not there.

Can you tell me what happened?

A short note: Is it possible to have a Golld version cheap, so everyone can buy one for your good work?

Thanks.

Victor:up:

[victorvu]

Originally Posted by victorvu

Hi:

I like this mod better than the previous, but still lack a few, such as automatically slide photo, arrows for next photo and previous photo, plus thumbnails and have it hide or unhide. Able to display picture info or hide it.

If this is going to be next release, it is a perfect.

Installed, voted, and nominate.

Victor

:up:

Hi all:

I figured with out already. Thanks.

Victor:up:

[Scandal]

Version 1.2 available! Enjoy! :up:

v1.2

• New layout choice for galleridisplay: Grid layout with feature to change the width of albumbits via admincp
• Integration of vBulletin's sidebar with Gallery Home (admin can enable or disable it on admincp)
• New feature: flood check and character limit check for the search engine
• Improved breadcrumb (add category name to navbit) ("Gallery > {category name} > Member List > {username} > Albums > {album name}" )
• "Inverse pyramid like" statistics for categories [a main category "has" the albums of its subcategories - like forum statistics (threads/posts) works for subforums]
• New feature: admin can enable/disable the view of empty categories (= categories with 0 Albums)
• New feature: admin can enable/disable the use of search engine by guests
• Building of Gallery Statistics by cronjob (= refresh every one hour). Very important for server performance.
• 1 bug fixed

Installation:
1. Upload all files of folder "upload" to your forum root.
2. Import *xml product.
3. (Important) Open template album_edit and find:

<fieldset class="blockrow">

add below:

<vb:if condition="$vboptions['sc_gallery_onoff']">
{vb:raw formdata.catid}
</vb:if>

Done!


How to upgrade:
1. FIRST OF ALL: Upload and replace all files of folder "upload" to your forum root.
2. THEN: Import XML product with "Allow Overwrite" to YES.

[Scandal]

Originally Posted by jo8jo

Works fine on my vB 4.2 PL1.
Some ideas for future releases:
- configuration for album thumbnail size (e.g. via ACP)
- easier edit of albumdisplay
- show picture comments & infos below the picture

Anyway this looks really promising

How could I change the size of Gallery's thumbnails?
vBGallery use the thumbnail size you have set via admincp. To change it go to:
Admincp > Options > Message Attachment Options
... and set your value to "Thumbnail Size"
... afterwards you must rebuild attachment thumbnails at: Maintenance > General Update Tools > Rebuild Attachment Thumbnails

Check v1.2

[Front Range 4x4]

Originally Posted by Leica.Robbiani

gallery.php gives back a blank page on vb4.0.6.

Blank page on 4.1.12 too.