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

[AnabolicResourc]

Great hack, thanks !

[TimberFloorAu]

Could you code this so that Menu is in Navbar not sub menu below it.

If not I dont mind doing it, and just disabling your menu hook in product

[oddmud]

This isn't working on Internet Explorer for me. Only in firefox. It displays the thumbnail, but the picture itself is blank.

[jmfemedia]

is there anyway to make it so that in the admin panel you create the album names etc and that each member/usergroup can put the images into a "public" gallery rather than having galleries for individual members?

[hohleweg]

Hi
Can i ses it on a live forum?
Greetings Jo

[mobe00]

still my unregistered user cant see the gallery. Even thou i set the user permission for them to view albums..something strange here ? anyone ?

[mobe00]

Also did a change in the template gallery_navbar so the unregistered users dont see the options My Albums and Add New Albums, since those are of no use for them.

<li class="popupmenu">
<a href="javascript://" class="popupctrl" accesskey="99">Gallery</a>
<ul class="popupbody popuphover">
<vb:if condition="$show['member']">
<li><a href="picall.php?{vb:raw session.sessionurl}">Picture Gallery</a></li>
<li><a href="albumall.php?{vb:raw session.sessionurl}">All Albums</a></li>
<li><a href="album.php?{vb:raw session.sessionurl}do=latest">Latest Albums</a></li>
<li><a href="album.php?{vb:raw session.sessionurl}u={vb:raw bbuserinfo.userid}">My Albums</a></li>
<li><a href="album.php?{vb:raw session.sessionurl}do=addalbum">Add New Album</a></li>
<vb:else />
<li><a href="picall.php?{vb:raw session.sessionurl}">Picture Gallery</a></li>
<li><a href="albumall.php?{vb:raw session.sessionurl}">All Albums</a></li>
<li><a href="album.php?{vb:raw session.sessionurl}do=latest">Latest Albums</a></li>
</vb:if>
</ul>
</li>

[HCGB]

Originally Posted by jmfemedia

is there anyway to make it so that in the admin panel you create the album names etc and that each member/usergroup can put the images into a "public" gallery rather than having galleries for individual members?

No - this mod uses the vB albums system. Users can create and add to as many albums as they wish or they can use common group albums.

Originally Posted by hohleweg

Hi
Can i ses it on a live forum?
Greetings Jo

Look at any of the forums marked "installed" in this thread

Originally Posted by mobe00

still my unregistered user cant see the gallery. Even thou i set the user permission for them to view albums..something strange here ? anyone ?

You are using an out-of-date version - the navbar template is no longer included . Please upgrade

[Nurofen]

Is there anything like this for v3.8?

[nofx1982]

there will be a release with rating images?