User Integration: 4images Gallery 1.7.2 + vB 3.5.4

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User Integration 4images 1.7.2 / vBulletin 3.5.x
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Copyright: ? 2002 Jan Sorgalla
Integration to vBulletin 2.x by Jan Sorgalla ?
Integration to vBulletin 3.0.1 by mtha
Integration to vBulletin 3.5.0 by mtha
Constribution:
Matrixgl for re-organize the hack
d1635d for adding the fix for 3.0.1
all others for comments and suggestions
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Hack version: 3.5.0.20051117
Compatible with vB 3.5.x and 4images 1.7.2
Translated Versions:
http://www.vbhacks-germany.com/forum...ead.php?t=1969
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Features:
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- Use vBulletin's user table instead of 4images.
- Forum's members can access and upload pictures (depends on permissions)
- Forum's admin can administrate the album (unless you do the EXTRA part)
- Display Who is browsing album, in the Forum's WhoisOnline list

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Changes and modifications
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4images file to replace: 5 (sessions.php, constants.php,admin/admin_global.php,templates/default/user_loginform.html)

Query to run: 0

* If you do EXTRA part, there're few queries to run, depends on what you want to do.

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Requirements:
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- vBulletin 3.5.0 installed and working
- 4images 1.7 fresh installed and working
- 4images and vBulletin are installed to use the SAME database
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Limitations:
- This is ONLY users integration. NO template/style integration.
- This hack use default usergroup for album level, there're only 4 levels of Guest, User awaiting, User, Admin. See Extra section at the end for other solution
- I didnt look at the "cooke path" and "cookie domain" yet, so it will use the default

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Notes before you install
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1. Back up the files before you edit.

2. 4images tables and vbulletin tables have to be in the same database.

3. If you run 4images and vBulletin under different subdomains,
for example http://4images.domain.com and http://vbulletin.domain.com,
you should use the following setting for vBulletin in

"vBulletin Options -> HTTP Headers and output":

#############################
Cookie Domain = .domain.com
#############################

Dont forget the dot at the beginning, and change domain.com to your domain. If you do not do this, you might experience a login problem.

4. If you delete users, you should delete the user first over the Control Panel of 4images
and after that over the Administration Panel of vBulletin.
This is neccessary to delete/modify all user-related data from the 4images database (images, comments, usergroups).

5. Its is highly recomanded that you use integration only with fresh new installations of 4images because of the following reason:
In the 4images user-table User A has the User-ID "1".
After integration 4images will use the user-table of vBulletin.
There, the User A has the User-ID "2" and User B the User-ID "1".
All images, comments and usergroup memberships are now "owned" by User B.

6. Lot of people are getting logged out after a certain period of time. This could be fixed by changing
"Session timeout in minutes" to "0" in the 4images control panel.
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INSTALLATION (read intergrate-4image-vB35.txt for more detail)
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Step 1: Edit the included sessions.php

Step 2. Edit the included constants.php

Step 3: Upload the files in UPLOAD folder to your album directory

Step 4: Import Product product-hao_wol_locations.xml from vB 3.5.0 adminCP product manager

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LOG:

20051117: clean up code, might have some small errors fixed.
20060410: modify for 4images172
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The End .

[VViper]

Hey has anyone got a random image module to work with VBA and the new version of 4images?
I want to get images from 4images into the right hand side of page index.

I can confirm that it does work with 3.6 and 1.7.3

[ocdotcom]

VViper - you can confirm this hack works on 3.6 and 1.7.3? Thanks

[VViper]

Yes works a treat. Be sure to make the changes to global.php as per the latest security bulletin though.

[vBFreak]

I'm currently running vB 3.6.1 and 4images 1.7.2 with the latest security fixes from the 4homepages website, everything seems to work fine

The sessions.php from plain 1.7.2 and plain 1.7.3 are way different, thus I didn't try to use 1.7.3 with the old 1.7.2 sessions.php because I want to avoid driving into problems.

A 1.7.2 install with the security fixes applied is considered to be as safe as the actual 1.7.3 by the developers, so I'll stick to 1.7.2 until mtha comes up with a new, fixed hack version for 1.7.3.

[VViper]

I love 4 images and so do the members.

hey has anyone got a method for pulling in random images from the gallery into Vbadvanced?

[vBFreak]

Maybe this can be useful for you:

http://www.4homepages.de/forum/index.php?topic=1020.0

Creating a new left or right-sided block and adding that code *could* work, if you're going to check that out let me know if it works, if not I'll try it for myself in my test board, maybe we can release this as a sub-mod then

[Paprika]

I see you guys are talkin about getting some random images onto your forum pages, but I want to get my like 5 latest gallery submissions to appear on near the top of the index page of my forum... any ideas?? or atleast 1..

[ocdotcom]

OK it appears to be working for me! I upgraded the boards to 3.6.1 and did a fresh install of 4images. I installed 1.7.3 because I couldnt find anywhere to download old versions of 1.7.2. Thanks for everyones help. If anything changes I will post here.

[ocdotcom]

I had a few random logout occurences but I changed the logout for 4images to 0 and left Vbulletin at 1800 and it seems to be working great.

[vBFreak]

Sometimes I've also had the problem that I was logged in in my Forums and logged out in my Gallery, even re-login to vBulletin didn't help then.

In that case simply close your site and clear ALL your cookies and your browser cache, then go back to your site and login, now the gallery should recognize you again