Who's Online for PhotoPost vBGallery

If you are upgrading from a previous version, un-install the product first, then re-install the new version. (Yes, even from ver 1.0.0 to ver 1.0.1)

Do not use this product with...
WOL is built into PhotoPost vbGallery from versions 1.0.3 and 2.0.x onwards. Do not use this product with those versions of vbGallery.

Description:
This is a small product that shows locations of users in your PhotoPost vBGallery instead of "Unknown Location" in vB's Who's Online page. I did not add links to the locations.

I had wanted to add links to some of the locations, but it looks complicated (getting the necessary data from the database and working out who should and should not see the links and activity details like image title, id, etc based on user and category permissions). It will take a lot more effort then I'm willing to, or can invest at the moment... so, I will not be adding that in the near future.

Oblivion Knight modified version 1.0.2 of this plugin to add links to the gallery index page. He posted the plugin in post #45.

Locations:
Browsing Image Gallery
Editing Gallery Image
Emailing Gallery Image
Managing Gallery Categories
Moderating Gallery Posts
Moderating Gallery Uploads
Posting Gallery Reply
Printing Gallery Image
Searching Gallery
Sending Gallery Ecard
Uploading To Gallery
Viewing Gallery
Viewing Gallery Image
Viewing Gallery Index
Viewing Gallery Slideshow
Viewing Linked Gallery Image

Credits:
Noppid for this WOL How-To.

Tested on:
vBulletin 3.5.1 and PhotoPost vBGallery (vbAdvanced Gallery) 1.01
vBulletin 3.5.4 and PhotoPost vBGallery 1.02

Effort to install:
1. Download the XML.
2. Import the product at the AdminCP->Plugin System->Manage Products.
(See the vBulletin manual on how to install products.)

What is installed:
- 3 Plugins
- 16 Phrases
(All names of the above are prefixed with "vp_")

Support:
Unfortunately I have to withdraw active support for this mod as I have simply do not have enough time on my hands nowadays.

Notes:
- If you have many plugins installed at the "online_location_unknown", it may interfere with this product. Most likely it's because the other hooks sets a variable that indicates the locations have been successfully processed. I have an "if" statement to catch that to prevent unnecessary processing. All you need to do to fix it is edit the "Process vBaGallery WOL Locations" plugin at that hook and remove:

if (!$handled)
{

and "}" in the last line of the plugin.

Change Log:
Ver 1.0.1 (Beta) - 19 Nov 2005
- Added missing phrases.
Ver 1.0.2 (Beta) - 26 Nov 2005
- Removed an extra line of code.

[vinzphua]

Version 1.0.2 released. Bug fix... sort of. Noticed an extra line of code, but it did not seem to be causing problems for anyone. It has been removed.

[Moparx]

the file is missing

[vinzphua]

Whoops! Sorry about that. Uploaded it again.

[divided_by_fear]

lol its a nice hack but i still get this here and there

Unknown Location
/forum.php

[moonclamp]

Originally Posted by vinzphua

That's odd because I didn't put in any links at all.

I just checked ... I'd already tried to add some WOL info using the custom WOL hack. It wasn't working at all on its own ... but it seems that with yours added the 2 hacks were working together.

Very odd.

[vinzphua]

Originally Posted by divided_by_fear

lol its a nice hack but i still get this here and there

Unknown Location
/forum.php

This product only adds WOL locations for vBadvance Gallery. Forum.php is not one of vBa Gallery's locations. It's from the modcp or admincp. You would be in forum.php if you accessed the Forum Manager either in the AdminCP or ModCP.

I'm pretty sure this product does not interfere with the normal WOL processing of vBulletin locations. Perhaps you have another plugin that is doing that?

[vinzphua]

Originally Posted by moonclamp

I just checked ... I'd already tried to add some WOL info using the custom WOL hack. It wasn't working at all on its own ... but it seems that with yours added the 2 hacks were working together.

Very odd.

You're using the hack by Andreas? If so, there are some posts in that hack's thread that specifically says that it will not work with files outside the forum folder.

My plugins specifically looks for files from the gallery folder, and strips off the path, leaving only the filename. That allows the filenames to be recognised by the custom WOL hack.

[MaxM]

Great work and thanks however it killed the link on my gallery so you could not find out what they were looking at. I tried to edit the xml file to show the true location of my gallery but no luck. It might be that I have a chat hook already set to show chat locations. At any rate since the only unknown location messages that I get are from my gallery I simply edited the $vbphrase[unknown_location] phrase to "</b>Photo Gallery<b>" The html code is in place on purpose so that it removes the bold type from the photo gallery but still closes the tag. I'm sure there are better ways but for me it worked fine. Again thanks for the work.

[vinzphua]

MaxM,

I don't quite get what you mean.

Do you mean you are still getting "Unknown location" for gallery links, when my plugins are enabled? Or that the location names are shown, but the link to the location is gone?

Or that you uninstalled/disabled it and edited $vbphrase[unknown_location].

Anyway, if you want to known their URL, set "Can view actual location of user (filepath/url)" to YES in the usergroup permissions. Members of that user group will see a round button with a question mark in the same column as the location name. When they mouseover the button, they will see a popup showing the URL of the location.

[divided_by_fear]

could you make one of these for vbadvanced? would be really nice since i get some of the Unknown Locations on there