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

[sola]

HCGB, do you have any idea why I'm getting this error? Only from UNREGISTERED. Thanks.
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Database error in vBulletin 4.0.3:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT ap.*,p.caption
FROM albumpicture ap
LEFT JOIN picture p on p.pictureid=ap.pictureid
WHERE state = 'visible' AND albumid = '119';

MySQL Error : Table '*******_vb.albumpicture' doesn't exist
Error Number : 1146
Request Date : Tuesday, May 11th 2010 @ 01:00:14 AM
Error Date : Tuesday, May 11th 2010 @ 01:00:14 AM
Script : http://www.********.com/vb/cron.php?rand=1273557612
Referrer : http://www.********.com/vb/birthdays...47-baba-2.html
IP Address : 88.73.141.28
Username : Unregistered
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version :

[HCGB]

Originally Posted by sola

HCGB, do you have any idea why I'm getting this error? Only from UNREGISTERED. Thanks.
Script : http://www.********.com/vb/cron.php?rand=1273557612
Referrer : http://www.********.com/vb/birthdays...47-baba-2.html

Nothing to do with this mod - the script shown above is executing a scheduled task.

[sola]

Originally Posted by HCGB

Nothing to do with this mod - the script shown above is executing a scheduled task.

Thanks. Will go figure it out.

[Xencored]

How can i change the Colour of the Text in the NavTabs one mate

ive tryed to find the Style Variable without luck ;/
Thanks

[ArminTECH]

interesting

[HCGB]

Originally Posted by Animemike

How can i change the Colour of the Text in the NavTabs one mate

ive tryed to find the Style Variable without luck ;/
Thanks

For the tab you need to check the popupmenu class, for the menu items it's navbar_tab_linkhover_color. Should be the same variable for all tabs.

[Xencored]

Originally Posted by HCGB

For the tab you need to check the popupmenu class, for the menu items it's navbar_tab_linkhover_color. Should be the same variable for all tabs.

Bah yea ..... it was late lol
Thanks alot

[Derwin]

It took me about 5 minutes to install, and it works GREAT! Thanks for a fantastic add-on to vbulletin 4!

You can see it installed perfectly by going to www.PODLovers.com

Thanks again!

[Bansheebob]

When I click on "Gallery" > "Picture Gallery" I get a google "Opps, this link appears to be broken" page.

Any help appreciated, thanks.

[Bansheebob]

Sorry but uninstalled, the upload photo page is very confusing, photos were all out of alignment and threw off my template, picture gallery link plus others were giving me errors etc. More trouble then it was worth for me. I'll have to pay for something better I guess to make it much more easier for my members.