4images Gallery 1.7

A lot of people, both here and at 4homepages.de have been requesting for a mod/hack that would integrate vBulletin 3 RCX with 4images 1.7 lately. The solutions are scattered around the forums, but nobody has it all in one page.

So I've decided put them all togather, and release it, so it will be easier for people to do the intigration successfully.

Please note that all the codes in this hack/mod are property of Jan and mtha.
http://www.4homepages.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1659
http://www.4homepages.de/forum/viewt...tart=165#32514

I have tested this on vBulletin 3.0.0 RC3 and it worked successfully.

Features:

• Uses your existing vBulletin powered forum's login account for authentication.
• Uses your existing vBulletin powered forum's whos online feature
• Can be modified to display any information from your existing vBulletin database, perticularly from the "user" table, which means you can display any information about the logged in user.
• Since it is integrated with the database, you can display any gallery information such as latest picture, how many pictures a member have submitted etc... on your vBulletin powered forum.
• Extra modifications can be found here

Screenshot:
Attached

Demo:
http://www.randomforum.com/forums/gallery *NEW
(Please note the gallery sports a custom style, not the default)
http://www.vb-es.com/galeria/ (Non-English)

[thakikka]

Whenever someone uses any gallery page the who is online in the forum gets resetted

[Braindg]

Originally Posted by NyCwill

Braindg - are you using subdomains? if you are did you make sure to set the cookie domain to .domain.com (replace domain with your site domain)

You got the "Members Personal Category" to work with vb3? if so can you tell me how?

RE: MPC - not with vb3, with 4 images yes.. works great!

regarding my main problem, no im not using any subdomains..
i might have missed a bit of code somewhere. ill review the changes... or do them again

[NyCwill]

So the MPC doesnt work with the integration?

[Braindg]

i dont think it interfers with it?.. not sure, but of a dumbass me

[NyCwill]

you got a demo of it? .. I want to see it working hehe....

[Matrixgl]

I am really sorry guyz, for not replaying to this thread for the past couple of days. Lately, I have been busy with lots of other things, and I had to finish the new vB3 style for my new forums asap.

Thank you mtha for helping out, and I will be replying to all your posts tonight or tommorow.

You can see my gallery here:

http://www.randomforum.com/forums/gallery/index.php

and my new board:

http://www.randomforum.com/forums/index.php

[NyCwill]

Sorry hehe I dont if you were replying to my post or not but my post was referring to braindg.. hehe.. btw nice site I love how you integrate the style of your forums with the gallery...... how did you do it? did you pull the style from vb or just plug in the images??

[Braindg]

Originally Posted by NyCwill

you got a demo of it? .. I want to see it working hehe....

its not public yet..
still need to sort out why i cant use the forum users table..
would save me alot of hassle!

[phenomenon]

Originally Posted by Matrixgl

You can see my gallery here:

http://www.randomforum.com/forums/gallery/index.php

and my new board:

http://www.randomforum.com/forums/index.php

Matrix,

Very cool. A couple questions for you as I try to decide how much hacking I want to attempt:

I see your footer on the gallery page is the same as the footer on the forum page. Did you just enter the html from the forum template into the gallery template? Or did you hack the gallery php with an if statement to include the template from vbulletin for the footer?

I'm trying to decide right now the best way of altering the 4images to fit my site. The 4images gallery has loose CSS control; all the table widths are defined in the html, which is kind of a pain. To go through and change everything to fit my site would require a global find/replace; I'm thinking if I am going to do that I might as well go through and just rewrite the html using <div> and css to control everything. Along those lines, I started thinking if I did that, I may as well use all the same css classes/ids as vbulletin, then just copy the <style> portion of the vbulletin html (vbulletin doesn't use an external style sheet) and paste it into style.css. That way if I change the look of my forum, I can just copy the css from there and paste it into 4images and be done with it.

However, if you've hacked the 4images php further to use templates from vbulletin like the header and footer, i'd love to know how you did it, as that would make things like adding the $navbar from vbulletin into 4images, etc. I'm thinking of having a look at how some of the other hacks here work and altering 4images, but I'm not much of a php person and am a bit intimidated.

anyway, thanks!

[ChuanSE]

I think that this hack should stay in beta releases, as it isn't a full release worthy atm :/ (imho)