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.

[dsboyce8624]

Yes, I have the WebPage/GuestBook hack installed. This is a great way to let them include images.

Thing is it offers you two options, to edit in HTML, or to edit in BBCode.

The Popup doesn't know the difference. I told the users how to get the links from the Gallery for HTML, but it's just too cool to get the Popup to know the difference and insert the right kind of code.

[The Geek]

hmmm - I dont know what to say without giving you a way that would break it for other its designed purpose. You can basically change the pasted code in the template to be HTML instead of BB code, however if its used in a normal forum setting, it will still post HTML which will get converted to plain text.

[dsboyce8624]

Originally Posted by The Geek

hmmm - I dont know what to say without giving you a way that would break it for other its designed purpose. You can basically change the pasted code in the template to be HTML instead of BB code, however if its used in a normal forum setting, it will still post HTML which will get converted to plain text.

I think I need to add a conditional, same way the web page editor does it.

If html then . . . else . . .

Just not confident in my skills.

[The Geek]

The problem is that the popup doesnt know where it came from... it just knows is the wysiwyg editor is valid. If it is, it builds and pastes HTML into the editor, otherwose it spits BBcode into the editor.

[dsboyce8624]

Originally Posted by The Geek

The problem is that the popup doesnt know where it came from... it just knows is the wysiwyg editor is valid. If it is, it builds and pastes HTML into the editor, otherwose it spits BBcode into the editor.

Sounds like a big bite for my tiny mouth. Guess I'll just do a conditional in the webpage editor to only show the popup if using bbcode.

[lazytown]

The Geek,

I've found what appears to be a bug in the Gallery Popup. If there is an aposthrophe (') in the picture's title, it will not insert correctly into the post. I haven't checked for quotes/etc. Actually when you click the thumbnail in the geek popup, it doesn't do anything.

By the way, I LOVE this mod!

-V

[claimbuddy]

Anybody subscribed to this thread!

Please post your suggestions for improvements again here.

1) display all images
2) display images in "category" choose category from drop list
3) display images from last week, day
4) display images from

basically when combined with gallery, a way to limit the choices for images you must look through to find the one you want - This way you can set up the gallery to work with the pop up (browser - it is basically an image browser - it browses the folder where all of your files are stored in gallery)

[Hades-1]

i searched and cant this

what im looking to do is to change the amout of thumbs displayed per row

can anyone help?

[T3MEDIA]

Nice ideas wish I could code.

[Hades-1]

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