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]

Thanks LunaTech. Sorted all your points out and updated the package!

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by tormodg

Nail Geek,

Now you should write something like this for the vBa Links Directory as well!!!

huh. That could be useful (and most likely not too hard!). Let me finish whats on my plate and i'll look into it!

[LunaTech]

I have one more change if you want it to work when they post in the gallery too. In the js file you have to change the path from 'geek-gallery-popup.php' to '../forum/geek-gallery-popup.php'

Great script btw. I've really enjoyed it.

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by LunaTech

I have one more change if you want it to work when they post in the gallery too. In the js file you have to change the path from 'geek-gallery-popup.php' to '../forum/geek-gallery-popup.php'

Great script btw. I've really enjoyed it.

nice touch. I updated the package.

[The Geek]

Updated package to 2.0 with UI changes and more insertion options.

nJoy

[Ghostsuit]

Hmm just installed and the Phrases don't seem to be working for me they are in the phrase group but not appearing in the popup or under the smilies. I've hard coded the smilies one to get it working.

Also the insert doesn't seem to work in Firefox .9

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by Ghostsuit

Hmm just installed and the Phrases don't seem to be working for me they are in the phrase group but not appearing in the popup or under the smilies. I've hard coded the smilies one to get it working.

Also the insert doesn't seem to work in Firefox .9

hmmm. try editing one of the phrases and saving it. Somone has mentioned that sometimes that sorts out the phrases occasionally not being built correctly.

Ill look into the firefox issue today.

[The Geek]

yea. The Firefox issue I will need to redo the javascript for wysiwyg editor. The problem is the DOM is different for the wysiwyg editor. It works fine for the standard editor option though.

I will really try to get this done today, but if not it will be 1 week before I get back and can sort it.

Fingers Crossed

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by the nail geek

yea. The Firefox issue I will need to redo the javascript for wysiwyg editor. The problem is the DOM is different for the wysiwyg editor. It works fine for the standard editor option though.

I will really try to get this done today, but if not it will be 1 week before I get back and can sort it.

Fingers Crossed

Just thought I would update this.

The issue is that this hack doesnt play well with the Mozilla wysiwyg editor. In a nutshell, it doesnt insert the images.
I worked for awhile today around this issue and was saddened to discover that the wysiwyg editor for Mozilla does not support inserting HTML?!?!?

I can insert the image... but I just cant insert a linked image in one fell swoop. I am working out the code to insert the image then loop through the elements until I get the image and try to link that... but sadly my time is up. I am out of here for a week so this baby gets a 'Known Issue':

'Known Issue':
Does not insert images with Mozilla WYSIWYG editor
All other editors (standard and other wysiwyg) work fine.

Hopefully, some wise man will figure this out for me in my absence. Otherwise I will sort it on my return (worse case scenario... you wont be able to insert linked images).

Sorry

[Ghostsuit]

Originally Posted by the nail geek

hmmm. try editing one of the phrases and saving it. Somone has mentioned that sometimes that sorts out the phrases occasionally not being built correctly.

Yeah editing one sorted the Phrases

As for the Firefox Issue cheers least I know to hold off on the main site at the moment.