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

[hotslot]

Some reason this plugin does not allow guest to view albums or pictures.

[Videx]

My guests can see them. Perhaps those are private albums? Or you have guest permissions to view albums turned off? AdminCP>Usergroups>Usergroup Manager>Not Logged In>User Album Permissions

[Webbstre]

Just an Update: I figured out what my problem was: I kept searching for a tab instead of a sub-menu. I ended up using this mod to put in a tab:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=233629

However, I want to make my own submenus for the Gallery pages. Is there any way to do this?

Edit:
Ok, I see now that even if I make a tab that says Media and link it to the album display in this mod, it still highlights the forum tab. I guess I'd need to know how to change it to highlight the Media tab and use the custom submenus I created via the add-on I listed earlier in this post.

[hotslot]

Originally Posted by Videx

My guests can see them. Perhaps those are private albums? Or you have guest permissions to view albums turned off? AdminCP>Usergroups>Usergroup Manager>Not Logged In>User Album Permissions

Thank YOU!

[Cybeth]

Hi,

sorry for my bad english

Question

How can I add the link here ago?

which code (Gallery) for the navbar?


Thanks

[HCGB]

Originally Posted by Cybeth

Hi,

sorry for my bad english

Question

How can I add the link here ago?

Thanks

Edit the Gallery menu plugin code and, on the last line
.... change navbar_after_getnew to navbar_end

[Cybeth]

Originally Posted by HCGB

Edit the Gallery menu plugin code and, on the last line
.... change navbar_after_getnew to navbar_end

Thanks

[SuperGLS]

Originally Posted by HCGB

Edit the Gallery menu plugin code and, on the last line
.... change navbar_after_getnew to navbar_end

Oh cool, thanks! I put mine after the Calendar link. Thanks again.

[Larry523]

Is there a (relatively) easy way to get the Gallery link to show up in the navbars for the CMS and Blogs sections and not just Forums? Guess I need to learn coding since I'm running into this with lots of mods for vB4.

[HCGB]

Originally Posted by Larry523

Is there a (relatively) easy way to get the Gallery link to show up in the navbars for the CMS and Blogs sections and not just Forums? Guess I need to learn coding since I'm running into this with lots of mods for vB4.

I can't see an easy way to add it to those versions unless it's added as a tab (see posts above) rather than a drop down menu.