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

[Webbstre]

I have just downloaded and installed the files in vb4 Gallery104b.zip. If I manually type in the albumall.php page it loads, but there is no change in the menu anywhere. I definitely imported the product file correctly, but still, no menu.

[deadbolt80]

Just installed in 4.0.1 and works beautifully.

Thank you!

[HCGB]

Originally Posted by Webbstre

I have just downloaded and installed the files in vb4 Gallery104b.zip. If I manually type in the albumall.php page it loads, but there is no change in the menu anywhere. I definitely imported the product file correctly, but still, no menu.

Check that the plugin appears in the list in AdminCP->Plugins & Products->Plugin Manager. If it does then the navbar template hook must be missing in your vb installation (are you using a modified navbar template?).

[Webbstre]

Originally Posted by HCGB

Check that the plugin appears in the list in AdminCP->Plugins & Products->Plugin Manager. If it does then the navbar template hook must be missing in your vb installation (are you using a modified navbar template?).

It's in the plugin manager, but you are probably on to something with the template hook thing. I haven't manually changed the default navbar template, but could another add-on have modified it for me? This is what is in my list right now:

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 Lastest five downloads widget 	1.4 	widget with lastest five downloads 	
 microMEMBERS 	4.2.1 	Memberlist replacement 	
 Most popular downloads 	1.3 	Widget with most popular downloads 	
 New Album Picture Forum Home 	1.0 	  	
 PHPKD - Advanced Quick Reply 'Ultimate' 	4.0.100 	This product extends 'Quick Reply' functionality to allow all "Advanced Editor mode" options [ All Built-In BBCodes / Smilie Box / Smilie Menu / Attachments ] (with full control from AdminCP). 	
 Picture and Album Gallery 	1.04 	Picture and Album Gallery vb4 	
 Postbit Last Online Date And Time 	1.0.0 	Show users last online activity date and time to postbit 	
 Spiders in WGO 	1.0 	Show Spiders In Whats Going On Box 	
 Tabbed Forum Home 	4.0.0 Beta 1 	This product allows for you to work in YUI tabs into your forum home and have AJAX calls to load the information. 	
 Use Original Thread for Comments 	4.0-0.1 a2 	When a thread is promoted from the forum to the CMS, this mod makes the CMS use the original thread for the comments. 	
 VaultWiki 	3.0.0 Beta 6 	A fully-functional wiki for vBulletin. 	
 vBulletin Blog 	4.0.2 	Personal web log, integrated with vBulletin. 	
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 VSa - Login To User Account 	3.0.5 	VSa - Login To User Account

[Kat00]

Brilliant.

[iadventure]

I have thumbnails set to 600 on my forum, Because of this, when viewing image galleries they overlap. Is there a way to re-define the thumbnail size just for this mod so it show properly?

[Videx]

I don't know, but 600 is hardly a thumbnail. Don't you test your layouts on the lowest common denominator - like a 1024X768 laptop screen? One of your 'thumbnails' would fill half my screen! And then there's netbooks at maybe 1024X600. It doesn't sound like you're thinking this through.

[HCGB]

Originally Posted by Webbstre

It's in the plugin manager, but you are probably on to something with the template hook thing. I haven't manually changed the default navbar template, but could another add-on have modified it for me? This is what is in my list right now:

I am not familiar with any of these plugins. If you check the plugin code for each one you will see which template hook it uses ($template_hook[something_or_other]). Check for $template_hook[navbar_after_getnew]. More than one plugin can use the same hook location provided each appends its output to the hook variable.

You could try changing the gallery hook location to $template_hook[navbar_start], $template_hook[navbar_after_pm], $template_hook[navbar_after_faq] or $template_hook[navbar_after_calendar] which will move it to a different position in the menu.

[HCGB]

Originally Posted by iadventure

I have thumbnails set to 600 on my forum, Because of this, when viewing image galleries they overlap. Is there a way to re-define the thumbnail size just for this mod so it show properly?

Err... no. Browser image resizing would significantly increase page load time. The sites I run have the full images resized to 800 on upload (thumbnails at 120) - there isn't much benefit in having a higher resolution for the vast majority of users. I would suggest you re-size thumbnails to 100-150 (the size of your thumb ).

[pjaco]

Thanks