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

[bigrover]

Very cool mod, testing it now.

I'm trying to figure out the permissions functionality of this mod and the default galleries. When setting up the albums it shows that private albums are viewable by "contacts" and moderators. What is a contact? Is that synonymous with friends in the user profile?

I have a need for private albums for users that aren't viewable by others. That can be managed by the user themselves if the friends/contacts are the controlling item. Other than album access, what is the functionality of the friends/contacts?

[bolobala]

Can you make vote for images in your gallery?

[Scandal]

Originally Posted by bigrover

Very cool mod, testing it now.

I'm trying to figure out the permissions functionality of this mod and the default galleries. When setting up the albums it shows that private albums are viewable by "contacts" and moderators. What is a contact? Is that synonymous with friends in the user profile?

I have a need for private albums for users that aren't viewable by others. That can be managed by the user themselves if the friends/contacts are the controlling item. Other than album access, what is the functionality of the friends/contacts?

If I understand correctly, this has to do with vBulletin Albums functionality, not with vBGallery mod

Originally Posted by bolobala

Can you make vote for images in your gallery?

I suggest you to try my other mod [AJAX] Thumbs Up? :up:

[bigrover]

Thank you for this mod.

I have a question about headers, categories and sub-categories. If I create headers for Texas and New Mexico, then categories for Landscapes and Architecture in both of them, the selection list in the edit album function is nonsensical. It only displays the categories, not the header they fall under so I don't really know which one I am selecting.

I know I can use categories and then have sub-categories under them, but I don't have a way to keep users from selecting the category itself instead of the correct sub-category. Using the forum analogy, would it be possible to specify the category is "closed" so no albums can be added to it like we can specify a forum is closed in vB? Or maybe there is a different solution I'm not seeing?

[bigrover]

How about an option to disable the display of empty sub-categories? The option adjusting the display of empty categories does not seem to affect sub-categories on my system.

Thanks

[bigrover]

The breadcrumbs at the top of the page do not display the path to the category currently being looked at. Assume I have categories for Texas and New Mexico, then sub-categories for Landscapes and Architecture in both of them. When I am in the Texas category the breadcrumb trail shows Gallery > Texas, but if I am in the Landscapes sub-category the breadcrumb trail shows Gallery > Landscapes, rather than Gallery > Texas > Landscapes as expected. I also note the header is not included in the breadcrumbs so having multiple headers would also be missed in the breadcrumbs. Can this be fixed?

I must say I really like this mod. Thank you for creating it for us.

[pokusek]

Is there a way to put latest comments to the vB sidebar?

[pokusek]

And also putting a record in the latest activity stream would be useful.

[pokusek]

If this mod would generate a RSS feed for latest images it would be great. Implement this feature, pretty please.

[Chadi]

Something is odd.

It is showing the home page side bar, on the gallery page below the grid of albums/pictures.