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

[HCGB]

Originally Posted by Fraggs

So now I have giant boxes with little thumbnails in them. Where would one go to change that? Based on the CSS I'd be willing to bet it's in the default vB code somewhere, just no clue where.

The vB CSS dynamically calculates the div size using the current admincp thumbnail dimensions - unless you've messed with the CSS as a previous poster suggested?

Originally Posted by nishant.soni

I got 2 questions:

1. I own a forum about hollywood+bollywood, so i need a picture gallery where there would be a cover page of "angelina jolly" and when someone clicks on it, they'd be taken to the actual gallery, possible to do?

2. I checked one of the forums that had this plugin, isnt there any "next,previous" button?

Use an Album - which has a cover picture - all part of vB. There are first/previous/next/last buttons on the page navigation (top AND bottom of each page).

Originally Posted by brown12321

Another bug I see is when you select on an option on the navbar, you get the Forum tab as selected. You can select Album Gallery, Picture Gallery, add album, etc and the Gallery tab will never be selected.... Is there a way to fix this?

The pictures and albums are part of the forum - that's why the forum tab is hilit.

[mobe00]

I get an vbulletin database error. Just know i got 150 in a few mins. It comes and goes..But its always the same error message.. only the attachmend id and query that differs. Always picall.php as refeerer. whats wrong ? Has something to do with this mod or ?

Database error in vBulletin :

mysql_connect() [<a href='function.mysql-connect'>function.mysql-connect</a>]: User xxxxxxxxxxxx_xx already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connections
/customers/xxxxxxxx.xx/xxxxxxx.xx/httpd.www/includes/class_core.php on line 312

MySQL Error :
Error Number :
Request Date : Friday, April 23rd 2010 @ 12:54:56 PM
Error Date : Friday, April 23rd 2010 @ 12:54:56 PM
Script : http://www.xxxxxxxxxx.xx/attachment....id=993&thumb=1
Referrer : http://www.xxxxxxxxxx.xx/picall.php?query=&page=9
IP Address : 213.31.11.24
Username :
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version :

[samiro]

now i try to disable the "product-gallery-108" ( but not "product-gallery_navtab-100")
and it still work fine...

so what this file "product-gallery-108" really do in VB4 ?
can we inport just the navtab/navbar xml ?

[HCGB]

Originally Posted by mobe00

I get an vbulletin database error. Just know i got 150 in a few mins. It comes and goes..But its always the same error message.. only the attachmend id and query that differs. Always picall.php as refeerer. whats wrong ? Has something to do with this mod or ?

Nope - it's an issue with your host - the MYSQL variable max_user_connections is set too low (for a reasonably active board it should be at least 200). You could try reducing the number of images per page (see first post) but that's only a fudge and won't stop users seeing the error.

Originally Posted by samiro

now i try to disable the "product-gallery-108" ( but not "product-gallery_navtab-100")
and it still work fine...

so what this file "product-gallery-108" really do in VB4 ?
can we inport just the navtab/navbar xml ?

...gallery-108 has the templates and phrases for the product - if you remove it the product will not work. The other xmls just add menu options that link to the product. Exactly what are you trying to do?

[way2xtreme]

A quick question: how do I edit the length of album title in preview trumbnails? It seems to cut the name down to 20 chars or so....

Thanks

[Uskana]

I found this very nice feature. VERY EASY to install. Thank you.

[mgcom]

cheers

installed, nominated and rated

anyway to change the navtab drop down links to white ?

[HCGB]

Originally Posted by way2xtreme

A quick question: how do I edit the length of album title in preview trumbnails? It seems to cut the name down to 20 chars or so....

If the titles were longer they would break the image box.

Originally Posted by mgcom

.. anyway to change the navtab drop down links to white ?

They should BE white - unless you have modified the vB css?

[mgcom]

Originally Posted by HCGB

If the titles were longer they would break the image box.



They should BE white - unless you have modified the vB css?

nope, have not touched anything mate, the links are completely invisible until i hover over them then they turn white

[HCGB]

Originally Posted by mgcom

nope, have not touched anything mate, the links are completely invisible until i hover over them then they turn white

They should be white then yellow when hovered over - they use the standard vB drop down menus stylevars. There must be something modified in your installation (custom style maybe?). Try checking the CSS for popupbody popuphover and the style variables navbar_tab_linkhover_color and navbar_tab_font - one or more of them must have been been modified.

Post a link to your site if you are still having probs.