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

[ahmedipa]

I will try to add this feature for my site thank you very much

[bad2dbone]

I see but what's the other 108 file for?

[Gamelobby]

Is there any way to get a random 5 on top of forumhome, &/or modules for cmps for this.?

[KW802]

Originally Posted by Gamelobby

Is there any way to get a random 5 on top of forumhome, &/or modules for cmps for this.?

This is using the stock vB Albums data so you don't need a vBa module specifically for this addon but rather a generic "Albums" module.

Try something like this: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=249105

[ThomasR]

Wayne : I tried your edits on the plugin, I don't see any difference. I double checked the addition of the template and plugin, no way, it doesn't work. Do you have an idea of the step I may have forgotten ?

[AlexandrP]

Hello! Tell me, please, what can be wrong? I have vb 4.13 and vbCMPS. Your gallery looks and works very good, BUT only for Administrator usergroup. People from other user groups get database error when i enable Can View Albums for every group exept Administrstors. I try to reinstall it, but always the same. Please help me.

[m_k]

Awesome hack - just what I was looking for without going the PP route :-)

[Anders P]

In the template gallery_picallbit the word "on" is hardcoded, it should have a phrase.
Apart from that it seems to be a nice plugin.

[akxt660]

What are the updates for the 1.09 version?

[8thos]

Originally Posted by Videx

An empty album uses no resources at all (if that's what you meant by 'heavy').

You set up a folder to store users pictures when you installed vbulletin.

I think both you guys are in the wrong place. Instead of installing modifications you should be learning how the basic unmodified vbulletin works.

LOL So mean.