Major Additions - PhotoPlog: The Pro Gallery

PhotoPlog: The Pro Gallery - Version 2.1.6 for vBulletin 4.2.1

This is a full-fledged and completely integrated image gallery add-on for vBulletin. No template edits are necessary. This is the same version that was licensed for sale back in the vBulletin 3 days, but it has been upgraded to vBulletin 4.2.1 and is being offered without charge and is not feature-limited. You get the full pro version.

It comes with various thumb, image, and display settings, has the ability to determine and display EXIF information, is integrated with several packages including Highslide, and you can set a number of usergroup and category permissions, moderate comments and files, add custom fields, FTP import, mass move, and more.


Integrated packages (all are the most recent packages available as of 09 June 2013):

• Highslide JS 4.1.13
• JHead 2.97
• CKEditor 4.1.1
• jQuery 1.10.1

PhotoPlog Pro 2.1.6 has been developed for the following version of vBulletin:

• vBulletin 4.2.1 (fresh install)

PhotoPlog Pro 2.1.6 has been tested on the following browsers:

• Firefox 21.0
• Internet Explorer 10.0.5

Check out the screenshots.


How to upgrade from PhotoPlog Pro v.2.1.5 to PhotoPlog Pro v.2.1.6?

You can follow the readme file, but this is a small change to fix a bug I inadvertently introduced
(sorry!!) when I moved the code around. All you need to do is one minute of work as follows:

• FTP these three files from the PhotoPlog ZIP:
  

  /forum/admincp/photoplog_plugins.php
  /photoplog/functions.php
  /photoplog/settings.php

• Reimport the following XML file via the vB ACP:
  

  product-photoplog.xml

  Do NOT uninstall !!!
  Do allow overwrite.

How to upgrade from any other version of PhotoPlog to PhotoPlog Pro v.2.1.6?

• Backup first and then follow the upgrade instructions in the readme file.

Additional questions...
Will there be a PhotoPlog version for vBulletin 5? Probably not. My understanding is that vBulletin 5 already includes a gallery.
So what happened to you anyway? Personal issues. My sincerest apologies to anyone negatively affected by my absence.
What about GARS, GAB, GAZ, GAL, and GeekMart? I'm not sure if I'll update these, and probably not anytime soon.

[K4GAP]

Originally Posted by davidg

i got something like this to that's why i had to uninstall the mod

Not that you asked but, this product is well worth getting installed. I love mine.

[skol]

@skol: That looks to be from double entries in the photoplog_customfields database table. Do you remember what you did right beofre that occurred? If you post the content of the photoplog_customfields table, I can tell you what rows to remove (or you can figure it out by looking where the doubles are based on catid in that table).

Thanks I did find the duplicates..It happens when I add a new category but only on that new category the others are fine..

Edit: Found the other two duplicates that were causing the problem sorted now,thanks again.

[flussmitteldj]

nice

[calorie]

Thanks everyone.

@skol: Was it your first new category? A sub-category? The first category after adding a divider bar? I haven't yet been able to replicate it, but I believe it is there though it only seems to happen in certain circumstances. If you can provide any further clue, I'd appreciate it. :up:

[espkaruna]

I'm having the blank portal page issue as well and I am not seeing how the 'How to upgrade from PhotoPlog Pro v.2.1.5 to PhotoPlog Pro v.2.1.6?' steps are any fix for that.

Installation went fine and PhotoPlog works but unless I disable the mod my VBA portal and all associated portal pages are completely blank. I did go through the steps mentioned in the vbadvanced.txt file and am using the latest version.

[hsoen]

Can this mod be used in shared webhosting with limited inodes since it stores images in file directory instead of vBulletin attachment mysql database?

How do you guys resolve such a limited inodes issue for running an image gallery with images storing in file directory?

[calorie]

@espkaruna: Try the attached file with vBA and please let me know the output. My guess is that a variable is not in scope but without access to a site with the problem, it is hard to tell without an actual error message or something to go on, sorry.

@hsoen: What is your inode limit? Just looking at HG as an example, the shared level of hosting has a limit of 250K. Do you think your gallery would be bigger than that (minus what you already have stored)? If so, IMO you'd up your hosting account to VPS or dedicated, not serve that many files from a database. You wouldn't want that many files to be served from a database, and if your gallery got that big, you'd have a rather active site and would probably need better hosting specs anyway. HTHs.

[hsoen]

@calorie: Yeah, I am with HG. Not yet hit the 250K inode limit. Even upgrade to VPS also subject to 1000K inode limit. Look like as the gallery grows, upgrading webhosting is the only way.

As inode is limited, I guess there is a need to limit number of images members can upload. Can Photoplog set image upload limit per user?

Can we use Photoplog to replace vBulletin image attachment? i.e. disable vBulletin image attachment.

[calorie]

@hsoen: Yes, you can set a limit on the number of uploads a person can do by setting limits on a per usergroup basis. Right now in v.2.1.6 each usergroup by default can upload 300 images with each being a max of 3MB, and you can set that to whatever you want. You can also set category permissions so if you only want your users uploading to certain categories, you can do that too. As for PhotoPlog replacing vB's image attachment system, I haven't tried that, but I suppose you could do it if you allow bbcodes, disallow attachments, but then allow gallery access. Then everyone would upload through the gallery and use bbcodes to link to images, but I'm not sure you'd want to do that as that would disallow non-image attachments.

[puertoblack2003]

Hello, is this php 5.4 ready I'm having issue installing plugin see error.

[Sun Jun 16 22:45:24 2013] [warn] [client xxx.xxx..xx] mod_fcgid: stderr: PHP Fatal error:  require_once(): Failed opening required 'your-file-directory\forumsvb/includes/photoplog_prefix.php' (include_path='.;C:\\php\\pear') in your-file-directory\\forumsvb\\admin\\photoplog_upgrade.php on line 11, referer: http://www.yourforumsite.org/admin/plugin.php?do=productadd