Geek Gallery Popup for vBadvanced Gallery or PhotoPost 4 or higher

IMPORTANT:
Please note that I can no longer support this project. Primarily as it is designed for vb3.0.x and I no longer use that version (im obviously on vb3.5x ). There is a version for vb3.5 over here . This project is left here for the community.
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Inspired by mpdev's photopost popup modifcation.
I used photopost and had his modification installed. When I moved from photopost to vBadvanced Gallery, I needed the same type of hack - so here it is!

This lil doofer is designed to allow your users to open up a popup window while creating a post. The popup window will display all of the users images in thier gallery (vba or photopost) and allow them to click on an image to insert it into their post (inline). They can insert the image as a thumbnail, large image, or a clickable thumbnail that will open the large image in a seperate window. The real cool thing here is that all this works no matter which editor they are using.

You must have vBadvanced Gallery installed and working or PhotoPost 4 or higher duh.

Difficulty: Easy
File modifications: A few (only for phrases).
Time: About 5 minutes
Sign: Libra

Known issues:
Mozilla wysiwyg editor does not allow for html inserts which limits their options to thumbs or original pics only.

Change Log
v. 3 Update 20/2/05
Rewrote most of file to include support for PhotoPost. You can now set up your installation to use either vBadvanced Gallery or PhotoPost 4 or 5. This is determined by the settings in your geek-gallery-popup.php file. Special thanks goes to MPdev for helping sort out the PP integration.

v.2.01 update 11/2/05
fixed mozilla support

v.2 update 3/1/05

1. Added a couple more insertion methods
2. Tidied up UI big time
3. Auto sized popup window
4. Finished the phrasing (found a hard coded phrase)

v.1.1 updated 21/12/04

1. Added phrasegroup additions to newreply, newthread and private as phrases were not appearing there (easy edits).
2. Made the $mediaext easier to edit (types of images allowed in popup)
3. Fixed typo in template that always showed the Next button (took me ages to find the stupid thing)
4. Fixed Back phrase as it was overwritten during the install
5. Fixed problem where in non wysiwyg editor, the clickable thumb was screwing up

To upgrade: Follow instructions in the Readme

Make sure you click the freaking Install button. Otherwise you will run the risk of being skipped over in my Christmas Card Mail Out.

[SVTBlackLight01]

Originally Posted by The Geek

GUess it wouldnt be too hard. I was going to do it but decided to focus on GAS3. Ill see what I can do (very busy right now though... so dont hold your breath!)

I was able to modify the code to insert the medium images instead of the large images, but it presents a problem. Not all of the images in the gallery have a medium size. For now I just disabled the menu option for inserting the large images. So all is good!

[The Geek]

Tormodg - Is this from the latest install package? I know there way one missing from before and I just combed through my file here and it seems fine. I just want to double check we are looking in the same spot

Blacklight - Ahhh... Actually rings a bell. I think I actually looked into it, but I couldnt find any efficient way of checking for the existence of the files without a lot of extra processing.

[tormodg]

Geek, I have successfully managed to edit the code so that images are shown inline. Due to the limited options availabe when inserting photos, I resorted to just left-aligning them.

BUT there is a catch here. I was unable to make this work in the Enhanced WYSIWYG editor. I assume the Enhanced editor does some parsing of the images. At any rate it completely ignored any settings I tried to make.

So here is my current solution:

a) Opt for the Standard Editor
b) create a BBcode which looks like this:

<img align="{option}" src="{param}" style="padding:0 5px 5px 0;border:0;" alt="" />

c) edit your geek_photo_popup to use the [img="left"] instead of just [img] tag.

Now all my images will be displayed inline and left-aligned but for my purpose that is fine. I'll see if I can do some more hacking later but right now I need to crash (it's 1:09am over here in Norway).

It would be swell of course to have this work in the Enhanced Editor but I need to familiarize myself with how it works and why it is parsing out my style (I initially appended a class="geekimage" but it never shows up in my source).

Edit: Wonder if this is because I have turned off HTML? Hm...

[tormodg]

An added bonus to using the standard editor is that the URL is also wrapped around the thumbnail so it works swell in Firefox.

[The Geek]

Why not just add [ left ] tags to the javascript insertion code?

[tormodg]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Why not just add [ left ] tags to the javascript insertion code?

The [ left ] tag does not align the image so that text can flow around it - at least I am not able to make that work.

Edit: Another reason to use a custom BBcode is to get the custom spacing which leaves some room to the left and belom the image.

[The Geek]

aw, right... Like I said - I think that the vb IMG tag gets wrapped in a DIV which would require you to edit that to get wrapped text (or as you have done - create a custom BB code).

[tormodg]

It works really well for me now! Left-aligned images, and I can control the properties by changing the BBcode if I like. Neat. And I also get the URL inserted in mozilla browser.

Another killer app from Geek.

[T3MEDIA]

ok weird..

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.3:

Invalid SQL: SELECT
images.id AS imageid,images.cat,c.catname AS cattitle,'' AS extention,images.title,
images.bigimage AS filename,images.medsize,images.width owidth, images.height oheight,images.medwidth width,images.medheight height
FROM photo.pp_photos AS images
INNER JOIN photo.pp_categories AS c on images.cat=c.id
WHERE images.userid=1 and images.approved=1 ORDER BY images.date DESC LIMIT 0 ,13
mysql error: select command denied to user: 'mysitesname@localhost' for table 'pp_photos'

mysql error number: 1142

Date: Sunday 20th of February 2005 07:45:59 PM
Script: http://www.mysite.com/forums/geek-gallery-popup.php
Referer: http://www.mysite.com/forums/newrepl...wreply&p=42460

[T3MEDIA]

what happens if I have no photos saved in photopost? will I get an error?