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

[onesexforum]

the gallery navtab appears at the end of the row. Is there a way to get it to appear after the forum tab?

[akxt660]

has a way to put a website signature at all images?

[way2xtreme]

Originally Posted by HCGB

If the titles were longer they would break the image box.



They should BE white - unless you have modified the vB css?

Hi there again,

I have set my image box to 300 px width, which means I can take at least another 15 characters. where do I find the code to edit? Most of my album names are long

Thanks in adv.

[Huy Ho?ng]

Hi. Very good

[NixonJr]

Hey Guys,
Have just installed this on 4.0.8 - works great however...

Uploaded a photo then i click on an album then theres just the photos ( no writing of what the photos are)

is this normal?

Thanks.

[topladz]

ive just installed this mod using the navbar option when i click on album gallerey or picture gallerey it goes to a search engine the lastest album and my album is ok what have i done wrong and how do i edit it

cheers adam

[lsdoodle]

I installed the nav bar and realized I wanted the nav tab so I disabled the navr bar plugin and the nav tab is showing in the right area great. You can create your own photogallery, but the top two drop down for album gallery and picture gallery leads to a 404 page missing error.

Just realized when you say install to root of forum, you mean of the website not the forum folder. It works!

[Alibass]

Originally Posted by lsdoodle

Just realized when you say install to root of forum, you mean of the website not the forum folder. It works!

I was just about to ask you where you installed at.

This is nice mod and works great on 4.0.8 PL2

[thespi]

I've got it installed but the button stretches in Internet Explorer 7 and earlier right across and over the search bar:
www.carpediem.im

Otherwise working 100%

[OldSchoolDSL]

Originally Posted by thespi

I've got it installed but the button stretches in Internet Explorer 7 and earlier right across and over the search bar:
www.carpediem.im

Otherwise working 100%

Does the same thing in IE8 & IE9 (beta). No problems with any other browser, just IE. However, as long as its the last item on your list... It doesn't really cause any issue (just larger)