Major Additions - [DBTech] Dragonbyte Gallery v1 (vB4)

Dragonbyte Gallery is a fully functional gallery system addon for your forum that will allow your users to create their own photo albums to store and display their images. You can run multiple instance of the gallery on the same site with the same files, yet have a completely different look and function because of the modular sytem it was built on. Users can customize how their gallery profile is displayed on each instance.

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Major Features

Multiple Instances You can run an unlimited number instances of the gallery on the same forum with same set of files! Each instance can have a different look and feel to it, and with enough work can have a completely different function because of the system we built it on.

AJAX integration We used AJAX wherever we could to help reduce the page reloads

Automatic resizing and thumbnail creation As long as your server can handle it, the users can upload whatever size pictures they want. The gallery will control the size displayed and stored, and will even create a thumbnail, all automatically. Users no longer have to worry about resizing their images to fit what your forum specifies. If you do not have a server with the power to resize images (GD image library can get pretty memory intensive) then you can set the gallery to reject images that do not fit into your size criteria.

User Albums Users can create their own image albums to organize and display sets of their images. Albums can also be set to hidden and/or password protected. So users who want to have images for only certain friends or not visible to anyone else at all can easily organize them.


Complete Feature List (Lite)

• Albums
  • Public or Hidden - Images in a hidden album will not be visible to users other then that owner
  • Album icon will display latest image added to it
• Images
  • Image paths are hidden through the php files, so it keeps users from browsing your image folder without going through your page
  • Camera images will be prepopulated with camera information from jpeg images
  • Images resized and thumbnails created automatically on upload
• Comments and Rating
  • Users can comment on individual images
  • Users can rate images
  • Users can comment on user profiles
  • Easily integrates with Advanced Post Thanks/Likes mod
  • OOB integration for twitter, google+, pinterest and facebook!
• Can upload multiple files with one selector (HTML5 browsers only)
• Unique user profile per each gallery instance
• Users can customize their profile display per instance
• Can search by tags, title, description or owner
• CMS widget to display latest, highest rated or most viewed image or latest albums
• Forum sidebar block to display latest, highest rated or most viewed image or latest albums
• Forumhome box to display latest, highest rated or most viewed image or latest albums
• Subscribe to users and receive notification when new images are added
• A lot of AJAX integration to reduce page reloads
• vBShout Integration to create shouts on new images and comments
  
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• Gallery Settings
  • Multiple gallery instances
  • Mass import from ACP
  • Import from vB Albums and vB Gallery
  • Gallery Navigation Link Name
  • Modular layout so each instance can have it's own look and feel
  • Multiple layers of categories
  • Usergroup permissions per instance
    • Can View Gallery
    • Can Add Album
    • Can Upload Images
    • Can Rate Images
    • Can Delete Images
    • Can Delete Others Images
    • Can Comment
    • Can Delete Comments
    • Can Delete Others Comments
    • # of Albums
    • # of Images
  • Custom fields on image page
    • Single line text field
    • Multiple line textarea
    • Select Dropdown
    • Grouped Checkboxes
    • Grouped Radio buttons
• Gallery General Settings
  • Turn Gallery system on/off
  • CMS widget settings and number to display
  • Choose from two different styles of image views
  • Settings to change your gallery filename as well as ability to run it outside of the forum root directory!
• Gallery Image Settings
  • Change location of gallery images
  • Are images downloadable?
  • Choose to automatically resize images or force users to upload images within your set range
  • Image count settings
  • Enable/Disable twitter integration
  • Enable/Disable google+ integration
  • Enable/Disable pinterest integration
  • Enable/Disable facebook integration

Complete Feature List (Pro)

• Albums
  • Password Protected - Only users with the password will be able to view the albums images. They can see the thumbnail view but will not be able to browse to the album view
• Images
  • Admin can select if images will be watermarked or not.
  • Watermark can be dynicamic or Etched. Dynamic for powerful servers will little space, Etched for less powerful servers and more space.
  • Watermark can be an image or text, located in several different locations over the image
• Comments and Rating
  • Easily add/remove images as your favorites
  ACP
• Gallery Settings
  • Usergroup permissions per instance
    • Max Image Width
    • Max Image Height
    • Max Thumb Width
    • Max Thumb Height
• Gallery Watermark Settings
  • Select if you want to use text, image or no watermark
  • Select if you want to have dynamic or etched watermarks
  • Several different text watermark and image watermark positions to choose from

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[mousetech]

Solved by changing THIS_SCRIPT in cmps_index.php from 'index' back to 'adv_index' and disabling the

"Product : vBadvanced CMPS: Nav Tab" plugin. I then added my own "Home" button through the navigation

manager, set it's script to adv_index, everything is back to normal. I also cleaned up a few rogue

entries in the database, vb_navigation. Items that had been deleted were still there, plus I had to

manually set a default tab because the navigation manager was giving this error UPDATE navigation
SET state = (state | 2) & ~8

WHERE navid =;

MySQL Error : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL

server version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 4

This is kind of obscure but it may help someone.

[marccap]

I have 3-4 categories but none show on the drop down

Screen Cap

Any ideas

[Hengest]

Originally Posted by Halfhidden

My members are also wondering would it be possible to allow members to arrange albums and or pictures in what ever order they would like.

I could really use this too.

[littlebigdunc]

I have just experienced a problem with this, I had 17gb of covers in my gallery, went on site as all vanished checked my direct admin and still showing I'm using 17gb storage, so I rebuilt the index and there still not showing up my gallery is blank.

Any suggestions?

[Leica.Robbiani]

Hi there,

I installed the gallery and have the same problem:

Also the gallery tab is being marked as "selected" while on my vBadvanced homepage.

Next problem:

Originally Posted by DBTech

Public or Hidden - Images in a hidden album will not be visible to users other then that owner

This doesn't work. Every logged in user can see the thumbnails and the enlarged images in hidden albums.

Another thing is, the vB standard is for private albums, that contacts and friends can see the private albums. This is the function I need, so this gallery is a downgrade of a standard function of vB for me.

An album just for me is a very useless function (if it's working correctly...), if I have images that are just for my eyes and not any others, my hard disc is a better place to store them instead on a web server.

So well, I'm considering to uninstall this product or just using this gallery for some random images on forumhome and going back to scandal's gallery, who is using the standard vB album function.

Best regards

L.R.

[DragonByte Tech]

I want to apologize for the failed support on this lately. I have been swamped lately with work and unfortunately I got way behind on support on here. It will take a bit but I will get caught up with everyone's questions/problems and again sorry for the delay with support.

Dylan

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by misha69

Hi,

I?ve set all setting but members and guest can?t see the gallery, get a the `We are sorry but you do not have permissions to view the gallery. Please speak with the administrator if you feel this is an error? message

Did you get this worked out or give up on it? If you didn't get it worked out and want to try again let me know and I'll take a look.
Make sure they have access to see it through the gallery instance.

Dylan

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Halfhidden

Hi Dylan.
I'm super desperate to have this mode and am planning on the full version.
Can I import all of the images, image views and comments. I think I have over 250k comments and 26k pictures in VBGallery v3.01 right now.
My members are also wondering would it be possible to allow members to arrange albums and or pictures in what ever order they would like.
Sometimes there is a need for this.
An example of this would be if you are uploading a step by step tutorial and the server loads them in a different order than makes sense to the user.
I really, really want this script...

Unfortunately you can't order the images. The comments and views should import fine now (was a bit buggy at first). And if for some reason they don't I have a custom script I can tweak to go get them, the imported images retain their old gallery id.

I'll add a feature request to be able to order the images in an album. Not sure if it will make it in with the next release but you never know

Dylan

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by cavyspirit

I'm also considering this full version. I have 20K Photopost images to convert. When is your next major release scheduled (very approximately)? Thanks!

I'm working on the next version now, not sure when it will be released. We usually don't specify dates, even approx, until it's within a couple weeks out.

Dylan

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Alibass

@dragonbyte tech

When I go into general options and turn off the gallery all it does is remove the gallery tab on the navbar. It does not show the closed message. The gallery is still fully functional if you enter the gallery link into your browser. Is this the norm?
I'm using v1.2.5 and 4.2pl3

No it shouldn't be doing that. I'll check it out.

Dylan