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

[teach1st]

There's nothing to see as a guest. It's a class site and guests have very limited access. You won't be able to see the gallery.

http://www.teach1st.com/bobo/vb/forum.php

[The Rocketeer]

Thanks Fred.

Still haven't been able to figure out why the album images are showing up as full size instead of showing up as thumbnails as it shows in the authors screenshot.

[teach1st]

Here is what the album thumbnails look like:

[The Rocketeer]

Strange, all the images are way out of proportion on my one.
This is exactly the problem I am having

[teach1st]

Could it be related to settings in admincp?

[The Rocketeer]

no, already tried that one I'm afraid. didn't see any such settings to control the image sizes in User Profile:Album Options.

[Videx]

I'm pretty sure I remember seeing this problem in ages past. Have you re-read the entire thread for clues? It's possible other things were also updated recently on your server and you just never noticed until you did the 414 update.

[The Rocketeer]

Thanks Videx, I got it sorted now. haha..

This was the solution https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...=237931&page=7

I had the thumbnails set to 600 for some reason. haha lol.

PS: I am still having some text overflowing issues after setting the thumbs at 100 and rebuilding the attachment thumbnail counter..

Edit: found a half baked solution to that text / information overlapping too, here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=182

[The Rocketeer]

To the author, it would have been great if the mod

1. as default, would display everything as 100 ~ 150px ish and without bothering with the Thumbnail settings.

2. The album.css was fixed a bit so that the lines dont get overlapped if the titles are longer than usual.

[pantani]

Is it possible to disable the private album some how?
So if they upload pictures they can't upload in private album ( i ant private album disabled ), so they have to be seen for everybody?

Thanks