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

[David Hodgkins]

I'm running v109 on a forum running 4.1.4. There is an incompatability when users are using IE 7. Can you look into this issue?

I've included an image that shows the issue...

[Reece^B]

works great, but how do I change the name gallery to 'garage'?

Also how do I add a random thumbs feature to the forum home?

[MonkYZ]

Installed and rated 5 stars! Great mod!
Unfortunatelly i am having issues with some images. For some reason, they don't get resized (and that's really bad for huge images, as i am on a fixed style). For example:

http://www.consolegames.ro/forum/mem...ham-asylum-34/

http://www.consolegames.ro/forum/mem...d-donglu-yu-3/

Can you please tell me how to fix that?
Thanks in advance!

[steven vaccaro]

Anyone try this?
I hope its ok to link to another forum. If not I apologize.

http://www.theadminzone.com/forums/s...ad.php?t=81363

[rootsxrocks]

Originally Posted by David Hodgkins

I'm running v109 on a forum running 4.1.4. There is an incompatability when users are using IE 7. Can you look into this issue?

I've included an image that shows the issue...

thats great to hear the 4.1.4 bit that is

[maria bartolome]

Hi ¡

4.1.4 I have a forum I would like to install this mod but I want to make sure that doing this gallery of photos displayed on the top and the last block users images as thumbnails
Is it possible to install the latest version?

Forgive my English thanks ¡

[ICC FORUM]

Hi....I need help. This is the first time i have attempted to install anything on my forum. We use v4.0.3 and wanted this album feature......but i dont seem to be able to get the two first options on the drop down menu to work. When i click the Album Gallery or the Picture Gallery i get this:-

Not Found
The requested URL /albumall.php was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

and this for the picture album :-

Not Found

The requested URL /picall.php was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

I sure its a simple fix, but i do need someone to point .....no.....spell out a solution to me, i can be best described as learner when it comes to this.

thanks in advance

[Videx]

Originally Posted by maria bartolome

Hi ? 4.1.4 I have a forum I would like to install this mod but I want to make sure that doing this...

I know it isn't easy if you aren't fluent in English, but whenever you install ANY mod you have to read the entire thread. Just on this last page you'll see comments about 4.1.4.

Originally Posted by ICC FORUM

The requested URL /picall.php was not found on this server.

It sounds like you uploaded the files to the wrong place. picall.php should be in your forum root - right next to poll.php.

[MonkYZ]

Originally Posted by MonkYZ

Installed and rated 5 stars! Great mod!
Unfortunatelly i am having issues with some images. For some reason, they don't get resized (and that's really bad for huge images, as i am on a fixed style). For example:

http://www.consolegames.ro/forum/mem...ham-asylum-34/

http://www.consolegames.ro/forum/mem...d-donglu-yu-3/

Can you please tell me how to fix that?
Thanks in advance!

Nobody knows how to solve this? I've double checked and the size in Options Albums is set to 1024 x 768... But the image is displayed full size...

[Videx]

Originally Posted by MonkYZ

Nobody knows how to solve this? I've double checked and the size in Options Albums is set to 1024 x 768... But the image is displayed full size...

You haven't told us anything about what you've already done to try to solve the problem. Or anything about your server and software versions. Can we assume you have:

• Read the entire thread and followed the suggestions in previous posts? Links please.
• Uninstalled this mod completely and gotten default albums to work right?