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

[DeadSilence_]

Marked as installed.

Thank you very much, great mod.

[Ethan99]

Great mod! Perfect!

No problems on 4.1.1

[Wajdan]

Can we use this mod as rotating random pictures on the top of the forum home.

[Videx]

Originally Posted by Wajdan

Can we use this mod as rotating random pictures on the top of the forum home.

No. Go here: New Latest Album Pictures - Forum Home (it also does random pics)

[hogman]

Could anyone please point me in the direction on how to modify the script to have the gallery link in the navtab not be stretched across the width of the bar?



Many thanks

[boodog]

Would not install in 4.1.1

[DeadSilence_]

Originally Posted by boodog

Would not install in 4.1.1

Works flawlessly for me 4.1.1, I suggest it's probably an ID 10T error.

[Alibass]

Originally Posted by DeadSilence_

Works flawlessly for me 4.1.1, I suggest it's probably an ID 10T error.

LMAO

[Videx]

Originally Posted by DeadSilence_

Works flawlessly for me 4.1.1, I suggest it's probably an ID 10T error.

More useful would have been if you told us if you upgraded in place or if like him you tried to install it new.

But ya, just saying "would not install" doesn't give anyone much to suggest. Make sure you're trying to install the latest version.

[yayacannes]

Great job but now i'm on 4.1.0 PL2 it's impossible to upload more than one picture by one picture, is there an issue please ?