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.

[tormodg]

We're using it with RC4 and so far no issues have popped up.

[The Geek]

Thanks for that!

[Jason McConnell]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Thanks for that!

Sweet, was just wondering as that was the only thing holding me back from installing RC4. Thanks!

[gldtn]

Geek,

When ever there is no thumbnail it does not get the default image for "no thumbnaills" in vBAdvance Gallery and it gives the following error;

Warning: getimagesize(http://www.mydomain.org/fotografia/files/8/): could not make seekable - http://www.mydomain.org/fotografia/files/8/ in /geek-gallery-popup.php on line 198

Warning: getimagesize(http://www.mydomain.org/fotografia/files/8/): could not make seekable - http://www.mydomain.org/fotografia/files/8/ in /geek-gallery-popup.php on line 198

Note; I replaced my domain name with mydomain

[The Geek]

huh. I havent had this problem with vBa yet. I thought vBa always produced a tumbnail. Ill put a check in. have you tried the geek-gallery-popup.php found here-> https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=180

If I remember right - there is a file check in there.

[Omega Prime]

Thanks for yet another awesome hack! Everything went almost flawlessly, except I have 2 minor issues (I figured out one):

-The phrases didn't show up until I edited a random phrase and saved it (wonder why I sometimes have that issue with using your hacks... hehe)
-It seems that 2 options are missing from the dropdown menu, as I only see these 2 when opening up the pop-up. It's nothing major, but just something to note

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by Omega Prime

Thanks for yet another awesome hack! Everything went almost flawlessly, except I have 2 minor issues (I figured out one):

-The phrases didn't show up until I edited a random phrase and saved it (wonder why I sometimes have that issue with using your hacks... hehe)
-It seems that 2 options are missing from the dropdown menu, as I only see these 2 when opening up the pop-up. It's nothing major, but just something to note

Hey Prime.

Glad you dig. I would LOVE to find out what is screwy in my approach to adding a phrasegroup. At least its a quick and easy workaround where you wont have to ever worry about doing again.

Your other problem is a known limitation with mozilla in wysiwyg mode. It doesnt support pastehtml and therefore, I cant send a linked image over.
Therefore the only option was to disable those 2 options in mozilla wysiwyg situations.
If using a standard editor or IE you get all options.

[Allan]

I put the question, one it is never , a compatible version 4images is envisaged ?

[The Geek]

not likely. I am still in middle of doing the next version of this one. (got sidetracked doing GAB).

I am sure that it wouldnt take much to modify it to use any system out there. Its pretty straight forward stuff - its just that I dont use it and am not familiar with it so I cant code for it

[tormodg]

Geek - is there any hope that a version with the ability to add image captions will surface? Or at least a custom BB tag for captions?

It would make my editorial staff very happy.