Photopost to vb/Home Intergration v1.7

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// Photopost 4.6.6 to vbhome/forum Intergration (vb2.0 & vbadvanced 1.01 vb3 Intergation
// Created by PixelFX & Respective Developers
// Version 2.0 in design
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NEW UPDATE COMING: I've got this system working with vb3.o and v2.0

New Credits:
Updated Hack: PixelFX
New Thumbnail Includer: Midnightz
And Thanks to everyone below.

Update Coming Soon!

INTRODUCTION:
After searching the web and a few sites, I wanted a way to show single / latest gallery images on my
vbhome/vbulletin forum. This hack, was setup in hopes to help others get a similar result to get gallery
images from photopost to show up on your vbhome/vbulletin front page. The concepts for this hack came is
from a combo of locations, as well as adding some of my own custom hacks and templates.

NOTE 4 vbindex: This hack should work with both vbhome & vbindex, the only difference for vbindex is you would make changes to the vbindex index.php not the vbhome index.php, also you would setup templates for use in the vbindex templates rather vbhome. Make sence? I'll rate a seperate txt for that soon.

CREDITS:
- Grunt for phpinclude,
- Matt Chroust for thumbincluder.php,
- Craigr for helping at vbhome, with support
- TECK for vbhome 4.2
- Enthusiast, Inc. for PhotoPost 4.1.0, RC1 & community
- Jelsoft Enterprises Limited for vbulletin 2.3.2
- vBulletin.org for support learning how to hack vb
- PixelFX for vb/home templates & some custom php vb hacking below.
- midnightz for updated thumbnail includer (see end of thread)

HACK ADDONS:
Forum home addon - Mickie D Follow Link below for addon download
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=123

Catigory Exclude Addon - PixelFX Credits in zip file,
http://files.pixelfx.ca/catigory_exclude_addon1.0.zip

LICENCE INFO:
To get all required files you need licenced copy of vbulletin v2.2.x / 2.3.2 & photopost pro 4.1.0+ /

I'm working on version for vb3.0 gamma/RC1 as well, which is in testing

FILES NEED:
vBulletin 2.3.3+ (installed) Tested on 2.2.x as well
PhotoPost 4.51+ (Choose to intergrate with vbulletin when you install photopost.)
vBHome 4.2+ (clean install)
thumbincluder.php tweaked, and link to database.
thumbincluder.txt modified by pixelfx for catigory addon - coming soon.
thumbincluder.txt version 2, by midnightz

I take no credit for the thumbnailincluder.php which is needed for this hack to run. Although I have made edits
to it, for my next version of this script

LOCATION OF THUMBNAIL-INCLUDER:
(requires membership account and licence for photopost)
http://www.photopost.com/members/for...threadid=26550

for the thumbnailincluder11.txt rename to what ever ya want file.php be sure you set varables to your liking.
Then upload, To your gallery's root directory. I've found you can use multiple files and it works fine See addon coming soon for that.

Example: http://www.url.com/gallery/thumbnailincluder.php

SUPPORT:
I will only support this hack on this thread currently. aka here,
if you would like to create addons please PM me
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=53539

BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING BACK UP YOUR FORUM DATABASE & GALLERY,
FILES ETC. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.
I've tested this on my two vb sites, and it works awesome. However I can't predict what it
will do on sites that are heavely hacked.

LAST UPDATED:
December 7th,2003

(note that update news info can befound at end of thread)

Note: This should work if you edit the forum/index.php but only if you want images to show up in
your forums rather than your vbhome. This is something I need to test more, so will post alternate update shortly for that.

NOTE: this version is for vbhome 4.2 to php 4.1.0 intergration, again addon will be posted soon.
NOTE: Text File Download at buttom of file,

MAIN DEMO:
NA - Coming soon.. for version 2.0

COMING SOON:
Addon - News & Specific Image Catigory on it's own page.
Example of addon:
- Supports Random Images
- Supports Recent Images
- Supports Most Popular Images

This works with main hack, and or sub pages (coming soon!)

TESTED ON:
vbulletin v2.3.2 Final, Photopost 4.1.0 RC2 , and vbhome v4.2 (clean install)

PLEASE CLICK INSTALL:
If you use this hack, thanks

News Update: [12.04.2004]
I'm still working on a vb 3.0.3/pp4.8.5 version of this. Its also got a unique gallery/news system with the update. It's taken a while for me to get it out as I've been swamped with contracts, but I hope to release update soon.

[Smoothie]

the phpinclude template in your admin cp.

[Russ_T]

Thanks for your help

[Russ_T]

Hmm

I followed the instructions fine and have got everything how it should be but I get "Query failed", is there a way I can turn on more detailed error reporting so I can see WHAT failed please?

http://www.zclub.net/gallery/thumbincluder.php

It doesn't include on my vbHome at the moment although $gallery is definately in there.

Thanks a lot

[Smoothie]

did ya edit the thumbincluder.php file?

[Russ_T]

$Url_Path = "http://www.zclub.net/gallery/"; //URL of your photo album, where the index.php is (with / at end)
$data_dir = "http://www.zclub.net/gallery/data/" ; //URL of your photo dir where those jpeg stored (with / at end)
$images_dir =$Url_Path."images/"; //URL of your photopost images dir where default missing thumb image is stored (with / at end)
$rel_dir = "data/"; // path to the data directory where pictures reside RELATIVE
// to the location of THIS file (used for checking thumbs)
//Database Setting
//You must change these values in order to run this script
//These value are not visible in the output page source

$host = "localhost"; //Server Name
$user= "hehe"; //Username
$password= "hoho"; //Password
$database="haha"; //Photopost database name or forum database name

//Display Setting (Changes to fit your page)
$q_switch = "latest"; // "random" or "most_views" or "latest"
$limit = 1; //number of image to show
$table_width = "100%"; //width of the table generated
$column = 1; //number of columns of the table generated
$photo_cell_align = "center"; //alignment of those cells

Like that but with REAL usernames etc

[Smoothie]

the relative path looks wrong;
// path to the data directory where pictures reside RELATIVE

[Russ_T]

I did originally try a relative url but that didn't work so I changed it to that, sorry, I have now changed it to

"/data"

because my thumbincluder is in www.zclub.net/gallery/ and data is www.zclub.net/gallery/data

Still getting a query failure though

http://www.zclub.net/gallery/thumbincluder.php

Thanks for your time, much appreciated!

[Intex]

PixelFX - very nice hack. Is there any way you could make this work with Tigga's excellent myvbindex?

I've just purchased Photopost, so this would be a great asset to the homepage.

[cinq]

Cannot get this to work , running vb2.2.9 , pp3.3.1 , vbhome4.2

All i get is compressed articlebits and a huge blank area on the right side of the index page.

[PixelFx]

I didn't test the hack with vb2.2.9, however when I set it up I was using vb 2.3.0 final, photopost 3.3.1 and vbhome 4.2, I don't know if it works with 2.2.9 ..

I'm currently working on trying to intergrate this hack with photopost 4.0, vb 2.3.0, and vbhome 4.2..

I'm also playing around with photopost 4.0 and vb3.0 intergration with my test board...

nothing stable yet, but good learning experience..

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Russ_T your relitive path would be, something like, /usr/home/accountname/gallery/data,

not your http path....

the best way to find that info out is if you have SSH/telnet access on your server. You would just cd to the data dir, then type pwd to get the full path information...