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

[hohleweg]

Hi
When I aktive
"Navtab menue for Gallery"

the Button "Gallery" ist to wide
pleas look at the Pictue

Why? what can i do?

!!!It is ONLY in IE Kompatibilitäts Modus!!!
Greetings Jo

[gpc10347]

Originally Posted by tzelon

Tanks! this mod is great!
but I have one problem I'm using 4.0.6v and I install the navTab.xml, and when I selected the gallery Tab. the Forum tab is highlight and not the gallery.
can you help me?

I have the same issue and it also appears that using the navBar causes an incorrect element to be highlighted..

Seems petty to worry about it but it doesn't look right to me

[hohleweg]

*push my question!

[gokhansancar]

Everything is good but, there is a little problem, after i click on the pictures, the mod is not resizing the pictures, pictures are getting over sized , it would be better if you set a image size to display the pictures when you click on them.
Thanks by the way

[Globus]

Thank You HCGB!
Soon as i get my money back from photopost developers will send it to you! Promise!

[oddmud]

Originally Posted by furst

thanks works nicely except there is no line under my tab like my other tabs, any suggestions?

http://www.bowrd.com/content.php

I have this same issue, and can't find a fix for it.

[Hippy]

it's a drop tab so it just changes color when you mosue over like the other default drop tabs
If I am not talking about the same thing please post a screenshot
thanks

[NikC]

I also have the bug below in IE (only some versions or compatibility mode) which is preventing me from being able to use it on my live forum.

Originally Posted by hohleweg

Hi
When I aktive
"Navtab menue for Gallery"

the Button "Gallery" ist to wide
pleas look at the Pictue

Why? what can i do?

!!!It is ONLY in IE Kompatibilit?ts Modus!!!
Greetings Jo

[OldSchoolDSL]

Working fine on 4.0.8 (thanks)

[Daryn]

The style I'm using doesn't look quite right with the tab arrow on it. I'm looking at the code for the plugin:

$vbphrase['gallery'] . '<img src="' . vB_Template_Runtime::fetchStyleVar('imgdir_misc') . '/arrow.png" align="' . vB_Template_Runtime::fetchStyleVar('right') . '" />

I can see the arrow called here, and the label just before it. What part do I need to take out to remove the arrow?