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

[TheBish]

EDIT>> This is working in 4.04.

Thanks!

[TheBish]

Is there a way to get this into the CMS? I read every post in this thread and there has not been a single mention of this. Maybe it is not remotely possible or maybe it is so easy and I am simply missing it.

[intelgio2]

I have uninstalled this but the dropdown menu is still there. Where do I go to remove the menu? I have just installed PhotoPost....

[cmiller1014]

How do you get your albums to be small and organized like that? My pictures and album previews are all HUGE!

[onlyamd4000]

Having trouble letting unregistered members view photos. They can see the albums but cannot view images inside the album. Any advice would be great. Nice plugin!

[Alfa1]

I would love to have global categories for images, so that images from multiple users can be shown in a Gallery category.

[Nosfer@tu]

Originally Posted by trilogy33

Have a look at mine: http://www.mx5nem.org.uk/albumall.php?
My thumbnail pics are set to 100x75 which for me are ample enough.

Can you add a screenshot or link to your public albums? I may be able to help out here.
Other than that, uninstall and reinstall the product to see if that resets the dimensions.

Originally Posted by HCGB

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?
.

Where do you configure this ?
Are we talking, because that is also for posts/theads?

"Message Attachment Options"
Thumbnail Size
Maximum width and height that the thumbnail can have. The image will be proportionately resized so that the longest side is no larger than this setting. If you change this setting, you will need to go to Maintenance -> Update Counters -> Rebuild Attachment Thumbnails.

EDIT:
Works fine with VB 4.0.4 PL1

[neiljedmonds]

Superb,
Installed and worked first time....I have one small problem the text in my tab is black and so is my background and I cant see the "Album Gallery/Picture Gallery etc" until I hover over the text.

Cheers

[furst]

this has been working fine for awhile now but today im getting errors as below

The following errors occurred:

kookaburra.jpg: Unable to move/copy file

[EquinoxWorld]

Any news anyone on this mod working with 4.0.5?