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

[MrBig]

"tagged" Good Job :]

[Midas3]

This is a great idea (why the heck is this not standard????)

I would like to see it represented slightly differently however, is it possible to have it so instead of how it is in this image:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...7&d=1268228767

For "Gallery" to appear next to forum in the light blue nav bar , then for all the sub menu options of gallery, such as Picture Gallery, Albums , latest albums etc to appear in the dark blue nav bar below which in the image linked above currently contains "help,calender, new post" etc.

Thanks.

EDIT : Never mind found this which looks like it could do it:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=233629

[buddyheiko]

works great. Thanks.

How can I put "Gallery" on my own navbar below the original one ?

http://www.forum-spielmannszug.de/forum.php

Heiko

[Cybeth]

Wie works great. Der Galerie Link springt in den verschiedenen Browser hin -und her.

Im Opera am meisten.

Das sind die kleinen Schönheitsfehler, die keiner sieht.

[cad2go]

Top Class. Thanks. It's working beautifully on my local install.

Latest picture comments is something I get asked a lot about. Any plans for that in future releases?

[alfanexus]

Thank you so much.

Yes this should be a default thing in VB!!!!!!!

[spider62]

GREAT ! work 4.0

[jmfemedia]

I am having problems with this.

I am logged in as an administrator with all the appropriate setting but I get the following when I click on add albums

Ok, I added it to a fresh install that I did on another test board and it worked perfect but there is NO difference at all in the way the usergroups are done (apart from the name)

[HCGB]

Originally Posted by jmfemedia

I am having problems with this.

I am logged in as an administrator with all the appropriate setting but I get the following when I click on add albums

The "add albums" option is just a link to the standard vbulletin script "album.php" - same as if you click the "Create new Album" button on your profile album page. Try the button in your profile and you will find it does exactly the same thing

[jmfemedia]

I am a total f'in tool...

I forgot to switch the albums on in the options thats why it was not working.

I am sorry for wasting your time...