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

[k6rikko]

Hi all i need your help sorry <.< But i dont find to change the font and background colors for the upload boxes. I have attached a picture its easier to explain what exact i mean .

Have many thanks

[vBTwist]

Great mod. We're using it as our Portfolio (with some minor customizations) over at vBTwist.com :up:

[aberg]

Today install in version 4.1.7 without any problems. :up:
Thanks for it

[FTDave]

Works great for me.

[kircherl]

Is there a translation into german?

[FTDave]

Thank you for the time you spent writing this hack.

[gonzek]

wonderful hack! THANK YOU!

One thing more - please look at attachment. How can I fix that the box with picture is too small?

http://se-center.info/picall.php?

[klawit]

well done! Thanks for that.

Mod works properly so far with vB 4.1.5 ... just marked as installed.

Thou I did some minor modifications:
- with the board having a thumbnail size set to 120px, there were text fragments vanishing down below the picture boxes (just like gonzek's attached picture shows), thus condensed the phrase "by: user on date" a little ... but still a tiny issue.
- added the full phrase in gallery_picallbit template as tooltip, so it can be viewed at least when running the mouse over each picture:
<img .... title="{vb:rawphrase album}: '{vb:raw picture.title}' ({vb:raw picture.username}, {vb:raw picture.picturedate})"/>

- changed the position within the navbar to have it close to the community menu (where the standard "album.php" is mentioned as option):
$template_hook[navbar_after_community]

Just some ideas ...

EDIT:
Found this workaround mentioned some pages earlier ...
=> https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=182
(190px work perfect for our board, when thumbnail size is set to 120 in admincp)

[spillage]

I've been using this Mod for quiet some time, and it has been performing well.

Yesterday I decided to add icons to the Tabs to pretty things up.
After much searching, I decided the place to put the icon code was here;

<a href="javascript://" class="popupctrl navtab"><img src="images/misc/Tab-Gallery.png" border="0" align="top" alt="" />&nbsp;
				' . $vbphrase['gallery'] . '<img src="' . vB_Template_Runtime::fetchStyleVar('imgdir_misc') . '/arrow.png" align="' . vB_Template_Runtime::fetchStyleVar('right') . '" />
			</a>

This worked great for all but IE9 users... they get the dropdown menu arrow wrapped onto a second line.


Using compatability mode makes things worse.


Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

[spillage]

Gallery dropdown links not working from vBadvanced Links Directory.

Whilst working of the the Icon issue above, I found that the Gallery dorpdown links all gave a file not found error when on the LD page.

This is rectified by editing the Gallery plug-in code to include the full URL for each of the links.
Example;

<li><a href="/forums/albumall.php?' . $sess . '">' . $vbphrase['album_gallery'] . '</a></li>