Geek Gallery Popup for vBadvanced Gallery or PhotoPost 4 or higher

IMPORTANT:
Please note that I can no longer support this project. Primarily as it is designed for vb3.0.x and I no longer use that version (im obviously on vb3.5x ). There is a version for vb3.5 over here . This project is left here for the community.
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Inspired by mpdev's photopost popup modifcation.
I used photopost and had his modification installed. When I moved from photopost to vBadvanced Gallery, I needed the same type of hack - so here it is!

This lil doofer is designed to allow your users to open up a popup window while creating a post. The popup window will display all of the users images in thier gallery (vba or photopost) and allow them to click on an image to insert it into their post (inline). They can insert the image as a thumbnail, large image, or a clickable thumbnail that will open the large image in a seperate window. The real cool thing here is that all this works no matter which editor they are using.

You must have vBadvanced Gallery installed and working or PhotoPost 4 or higher duh.

Difficulty: Easy
File modifications: A few (only for phrases).
Time: About 5 minutes
Sign: Libra

Known issues:
Mozilla wysiwyg editor does not allow for html inserts which limits their options to thumbs or original pics only.

Change Log
v. 3 Update 20/2/05
Rewrote most of file to include support for PhotoPost. You can now set up your installation to use either vBadvanced Gallery or PhotoPost 4 or 5. This is determined by the settings in your geek-gallery-popup.php file. Special thanks goes to MPdev for helping sort out the PP integration.

v.2.01 update 11/2/05
fixed mozilla support

v.2 update 3/1/05

1. Added a couple more insertion methods
2. Tidied up UI big time
3. Auto sized popup window
4. Finished the phrasing (found a hard coded phrase)

v.1.1 updated 21/12/04

1. Added phrasegroup additions to newreply, newthread and private as phrases were not appearing there (easy edits).
2. Made the $mediaext easier to edit (types of images allowed in popup)
3. Fixed typo in template that always showed the Next button (took me ages to find the stupid thing)
4. Fixed Back phrase as it was overwritten during the install
5. Fixed problem where in non wysiwyg editor, the clickable thumb was screwing up

To upgrade: Follow instructions in the Readme

Make sure you click the freaking Install button. Otherwise you will run the risk of being skipped over in my Christmas Card Mail Out.

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by T3MEDIA

Picture is there.
But for argument sake....
Say it isnt, how do I turn off the error message?

Have you tried the new file I attached a couple of posts previously?

[tormodg]

Geek, I have noticed that sometimes the LAST image posted does not want to be inserted into a post with Firefox. It has happened a few times for me now. Any other picture will work just fine. Just FYI.

I have a question: The current method of insertion points to the file directly, right? So if a file is moved, the image breaks. Maybe it would be wise to think up some sort of solution to this - it can be a real hassle when for example a gallery is reorganized.

[tormodg]

Originally Posted by T3MEDIA

Picture is there.
But for argument sake....
Say it isnt, how do I turn off the error message?

Again...my bad for not reading the post correctly. Apologies. Blame the nasty flu I'm struggling with.

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by tormodg

Geek, I have noticed that sometimes the LAST image posted does not want to be inserted into a post with Firefox. It has happened a few times for me now. Any other picture will work just fine. Just FYI.

I have a question: The current method of insertion points to the file directly, right? So if a file is moved, the image breaks. Maybe it would be wise to think up some sort of solution to this - it can be a real hassle when for example a gallery is reorganized.

Huh - not sure why FF wouldnt display the last image. Thats all pretty much done behind the scenes. Ill look into it.

As for moving the pics - no matter which gallery you use, when you move or delete an image, it wil update their tables. That is where the info comes from so I dont think there should be a problem?!?

[T3MEDIA]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Have you tried the new file I attached a couple of posts previously?

on it now!

[tormodg]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Huh - not sure why FF wouldnt display the last image. Thats all pretty much done behind the scenes. Ill look into it.

As for moving the pics - no matter which gallery you use, when you move or delete an image, it wil update their tables. That is where the info comes from so I dont think there should be a problem?!?

But, Geek...the LINK to the full size image will work since it goes to showimage.php, but the thumbnail is inserted as a hardcoded path, ie:

http://www.hypography.com/gallery/fi.../M33_thumb.gif

If I move the image this path will change...I don't know how to solve this. I am just saying it might become a problem when reorganizing.

Or maybe I am wrong?

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by tormodg

But, Geek...the LINK to the full size image will work since it goes to showimage.php, but the thumbnail is inserted as a hardcoded path, ie:

http://www.hypography.com/gallery/fi.../M33_thumb.gif

If I move the image this path will change...I don't know how to solve this. I am just saying it might become a problem when reorganizing.

Or maybe I am wrong?

If you use the front end program (either PP or vBadvanced) to move or reorganise the images, then it doesnt really matter as the images will always stay in the same physical location.
If you were to manually move them, you would break the front end programs depiction of the image as well as this popup.

HTH's

[mindbuster]

Thanks for a VERY nice modification, saves alot of copy/pasting links, and very n00b friendly.

*clicks install*

Installed with no errors on patched vB 3.0.5.

[zooounds]

Just installed the software and have some feedback:

The back and forward links will totaly destroy the size of the window if there is to few images on page.

When I have inserted the patches in the php-s cript to enable the strings all other strings on the page ++++s up. Had to remove the patches to make the other things work.

Why is mots of the functionality removed in Mozilla?

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by zooounds

Just installed the software and have some feedback:

The back and forward links will totaly destroy the size of the window if there is to few images on page.

When I have inserted the patches in the php-s cript to enable the strings all other strings on the page ++++s up. Had to remove the patches to make the other things work.

Why is mots of the functionality removed in Mozilla?

Hey zooounds - Im not sure what you mean.

The functionality in Mozilla is reduced because the mozilla wysiwyg editor doesnt support pasting html. THe functionality is fine in standard editors.