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

[kaposer]

This is a great Mod, thank you much. I've been waiting for this a loooong time. I've choosed to add the dropdown menu to navbar and added a new button on the navtab that links to picall.php, so you can go to gallery directly or find more options if you need something specific. The search function is great

I get swapped links on the dropdown menu tho, Picture Gallery links to albumall and Album Gallery links to picall, aren't they supposed to be otherwise?

Now all I need for my gallery is an option to center pictures, I'm running at 1024 maxWidth and if I post a picture larger than 1024 it doesn't get centered

Voted for MOM!

[HCGB]

Originally Posted by kaposer

I get swapped links on the dropdown menu tho, Picture Gallery links to albumall and Album Gallery links to picall, aren't they supposed to be otherwise?

Thanks for the vote

Download the latest version (1.07) - it fixed the swapped link problem.

[aberg]

Thanks for share this.
It's very nice to have this on the navbar.
Albums are difficult to find and with this mod it is very easy

[kylek]

Thank you!! marked installed, rated, and voted for MOTM.

[Dr.osamA]

Updated

thank you agen

[NashChristian]

Great Mod! Thanks for sharing!

One problem though... I just installed, tried both nav structures, didn't like the drop down tab (would prefer a regular tab to album all and then navbar drop down for the rest). Anyhow, that's not my one problem, but rather my one wish. Here is my one problem, when I installed the navbar nav, it disappears (the navigation) on the albumall.php, which means once a user gets to that page, there is NO way to navigate your product. They have to go back to the Forum, and then begin navigation again. (To clarify, the entire "forums" navbar disappears on the albumall.php, not just the nav for your gallery.)

Is there some way I can fix this? I know that I've seen other sites that use your mod without this issue, I don't know if this is due to the new plug-in installation, or ??? Bothersome though... lol. Thanks again for sharing, and let me know Santa's address so I can mail that WISH to him!

[NashChristian]

Reinstalled the drop-down tab, and now noticed that it doesn't have an "active" state. Hmmm... guess the navbar is best, if I can get it to show up on the albumall.php.

[NashChristian]

Originally Posted by kaposer

This is a great Mod, thank you much. I've been waiting for this a loooong time. I've choosed to add the dropdown menu to navbar and added a new button on the navtab that links to picall.php, so you can go to gallery directly or find more options if you need something specific.

Hey there,

How did you add the tab button? I would be interested in this, in conjunction with the navbar. Sounds like what I'm looking for. Please share...

Thanks!~

[HCGB]

Originally Posted by NashChristian

.....
Is there some way I can fix this? I know that I've seen other sites that use your mod without this issue, I don't know if this is due to the new plug-in installation, or ???

It works OK on a standard vB installation so I can only assume you are using a modified navbar or navtab template. I would suggest you try disabling other navbar mods until you find which one is causing the issue.

BTW: the right side navtabs items on your site are hidden at 1024/800 resolution - a lot of users still use these screen sizes so it might be worth reducing the number of navtab items so they can actually see them all

[badawidollah]

working on my vb402

thanks alot
you help me so much