Social Group and Album Enhancements - [Scandal's] vBGallery

Description
Turn your vBulletin Album system to an organized Gallery. Watch presentation!

The basic idea of Scandal's vBGallery is to organize vBulletin Albums AND forum attachments (pictures) to a section with lots of functions (categories, search, latest objects, statistics, menus etc).
Designed for vBulletin 4.2.0 (otherwise you must add the navbar links manually).



Features:
- Categories system for Albums (like Forums for threads)
- Five (5) levels of subcategories allowed
- Album, picture and comment search
- Who browsing Gallery (= Gallery Home, Albums, Pictures)
- Gallery statistics
- Forum attachments gallery (with ability to act it as category)
- Pages: latest pictures - latest albums - latest comments (with feature to turn them to "All")
- "My Comments" feature (display all user comments)
- My Pictures/Albums in "this" category
- Ability to set custom statusicons to categories
- Notifications to users with "uncategorized" albums to move them
- Ability to hide empty categories (= with 0 albums)
- Admincp environment
- No annoying copyright info

Language Packs:
- Deutsch (Sie) - Deutsch (Du)


Installation:
1. Upload all files of folder "upload" to your forum root.
2. Import *xml product.
3. (Important) Open template album_edit and find:

<fieldset class="blockrow">

add below:

<vb:if condition="$vboptions['sc_gallery_onoff']">
{vb:raw formdata.catid}
</vb:if>

Done!

Upgrade:
1. FIRST OF ALL: Upload and replace all files of folder "upload" to your forum root.
2. THEN: Import XML product with "Allow Overwrite" to YES.

Who can view vBGallery;
Access to vBGallery has all members who belongs to usergroups with "Can View Albums" to YES.

What if I decide to turn off or uninstall vBGallery;
You are back to Albums without data lose (except the category of each Album - function of this hack).

How could I change the size of Gallery's thumbnails?
vBGallery use the thumbnail size you have set via admincp. To change it go to:
Admincp > Options > Message Attachment Options
... and set your value to "Thumbnail Size"
... afterwards you must rebuild attachment thumbnails at: Maintenance > General Update Tools > Rebuild Attachment Thumbnails

How to install navbar links (for vBulletin 4.0.X - 4.1.X)
Read this post

*Links (for vBulletin 4.0.X - 4.1.X)
::Screenshot::::..
GALLERY:
->/gallery.php

My Stuff:
(My Albums)-> /album.php
(Add Album)-> /album.php?do=addalbum
(My Comments)->/gallery.php?do=mycomments
(Pending Albums)->/gallery.php?do=pending

(Latest Pictures)->/gallery.php?do=latestpictures
(Latest Albums)->/gallery.php?do=latestalbums
(Latest Comments)->/gallery.php?do=latestcomments
(Search)->/gallery.php?do=search


Changelog:
v1.0 first release (beta)
v1.2 second release
- New layout choice for galleridisplay: Grid layout with feature to change the width of albumbits via admincp
- Integration of vBulletin's sidebar with Gallery Home (admin can enable or disable it on admincp)
- New feature: flood check and character limit check for the search engine
- Improved breadcrumb (add category name to navbit) ("Gallery > {category name} > Member List > {username} > Albums > {album name}" )
- "Inverse pyramid like" statistics for categories [a main category "has" the albums of its subcategories - like forum statistics (threads/posts) works for subforums]
- New feature: admin can enable/disable the view of empty categories (= categories with 0 Albums)
- New feature: admin can enable/disable the use of search engine by guests
- Building of Gallery Statistics by cronjob (= refresh every one hour). Very important for server performance.
- 1 bug fixed
v1.5 third release
- Classic layout abolished
- New: Notification feature = users with Albums in category "Uncategorized" auto-notified by the system to move them to a subject category (pending albums)
- New feature: admin can set if he want him users to display Albums or Pictures when open the categories.
- New: menus "Browse Albums" & "Browse Pictures" on Gallery Display (user can navigate the albums/pictures in the category)
- New: My albums/pictures in "this" category feature
- Admincp environment improved (List Albums)
- 3 bugs fixed
v1.6 fourth release
- Galleryhome: fixed the view of description for header categories
- New feature: ability to add custom statusicons to categories (screenshot)
- 1 phrase undefined variable fix
- pending albums: 1 bug fixed
v2.0 fifth release
- New feature: forum pictures attachment gallery (with ability to turn it as gallery category)
- search feature for attachment gallery
- 1 phrase issue fixed
- 1 bug fixed
v2.1
- better attachments gallery popup

Developer's notice: I give support only for code errors, not for style problems.

Tested on vBulletin 4.2.0

[Leica.Robbiani]

Hi there,

Originally Posted by dopeytjen

Hello, I was wondering if I could get some help on this. I have a problem when I upload an image, say I upload a 1.1MB image, it would upload fine, yet when I inser it in a gallery, it woul dbe around 150KB and the image would be really small and horrible quality.. How would I fix such a thing? ^^'. I have set the maximum heigth and width to 60000 in the usergroup by the way.. so that's not it...

I think this is not a problem of this mod, it's a problem of your album settings in the vB settings.

btw, why are your images more than 1 MB filesize ??? You can have really large images around 200 kB by good quality using jpg-compression.

Best regards

L.R.

[Mr_Running]

It's an honest screen shot.
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...3&d=1339252308

Testing: I see the spillage of information over flowing.

Factors: Image size, title length, etc...


Tagged Mod Will wait for a fix.

A lot of potential...Excellent.

[Leica.Robbiani]

Hi there,

Originally Posted by Mr_Running

It's an honest screen shot.
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...3&d=1339252308

Testing: I see the spillage of information over flowing.

Factors: Image size, title length, etc...


Tagged Mod Will wait for a fix.

A lot of potential...Excellent.

Search in the album.css template for .albumlist_entry, add the height and set the values of width and height to values, what are good for you. That's the way I did.

Best regards

L.R.

[SilverBoy]

Hi Scandal, I wish there is ability to give usergroup permissions to add albums to specific categories.

for example cat. A every one can add his albums to it
but cat. B only admins and moderators can add their albums to it.

[Kolektor]

Hi scandal, I would like to request the ability to upload pictures using SWFUploader.

[vnairp11]

This is a wonderful plugin just few issues, attachments with longer names messs up template and do not go to the next line.

How do i organize my nav menu bar so the gallery shows up next to albums, I can do this via a tabs plugin but then how do i disable the default navbar tab for this gallery?

[Scandal]

Originally Posted by vnairp11

This is a wonderful plugin just few issues, attachments with longer names messs up template and do not go to the next line.

How do i organize my nav menu bar so the gallery shows up next to albums, I can do this via a tabs plugin but then how do i disable the default navbar tab for this gallery?

Go to admincp > (left block) Settings > Navigation Manager
... and select Edit for the "Gallery" tab. Then turn it as inactive. :up:

[doctorsexy]

Smashin mod... thanks

[goyo]

Finally! Great Job.

There's only one problem....it's very very slow on our site.

Maybe it's the fact that we have 940569 forum attachments.

I'd pay for optimize this to work faster...

[RoC wonko]

I am getting a missing image message after I upload a pic, could some one please advice me on how to fix this.