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

[jhabers]

sweet!!!

can you put a break here like this

Pictures:5Last
Picture:01-10-2010

to

Pictures:5
Last Picture:01-10-2010

or possibly replace or add the owner of the album to the preview?

Great work!

[jhabers]

Dropdown looks to be broke when not logged in, using IE8

[VonDoom]

Installed, tested, rated and nominated. Great work. Thanks for this very useful product.

[ssslippy]

attached is a PLUGIN to cache the template.

[claystation]

This is really awesome, there are albums that I didn't even know existed on my board and they are great! I do have a problem though, my thumbnails are bigger then the white background box behind them and the text that goes with the pictures gets cut off?

[pjcnlv]

Just need that nice pulldown menu in the navbar tabs.

[Alien]

Originally Posted by claystation

I do have a problem though, my thumbnails are bigger then the white background box behind them and the text that goes with the pictures gets cut off?

This modification just pulls CSS the way vBulletin does the album templates by default (which is pretty nasty right now IMHO). It's not the fault of this mod.

If you want to make some adjustments, these two values will probably help point you in the right direction. Use values you want, then just stick them in your additional.css template so they override built-in values:

.albumlist_entry
#thumbnails li .picture

As an example only, mine are currently set to:

.albumlist_entry {
float:left;
height:200.04px;
margin-bottom:20px;
margin-left:25px;
margin-top:20px;
padding:0 15px 10px;
text-align:center;
width:150px;
}
#thumbnails li .picture {
display:block;
height:150px;
padding:10px;
width:150px;
}

[kevinfx]

Originally Posted by abroad

Cant see the Albums when I am not registered. Get this message:
No User specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator

Me too, unable to view any links from Gallery dropdown as guess

[HCGB]

Originally Posted by claystation

..... my thumbnails are bigger then the white background box behind them and the text that goes with the pictures gets cut off?

If you upgraded from vb3 OR changed your attachment thumbnail size then you need to:

AdminCP->Maintenance->Update Counters->Rebuild Attachment Thumbnails


v1.03b fixes the layout problems Alien and others have noticed. You can also now control whether unregistered users can see the gallery menu (see first post) and view the thumbnail galleries.

[x626xblack]

Thanks! Installed! 5 Stars! MOTM! Finally!

Works GREAT!