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

[Keyvan63]

Originally Posted by Videx

Assuming you're sure you are importing the latest version (109), then if you must you can edit the dependencies in the xml file with a text editor.

However, I just checked and 109 looks like it will work, so you're probably trying to import an older version.

Thank U Videx I found out that this one is compatible and worked vB4 Gallery 109.zip
108 did not work.

Installed,great work,Thanks

[powerwheelie]

Hi all,

I recently upgraded from 3.8.2 to 4.1.7. Version 3.8 had a Gallerymod installed. When I installed 4.1.7, which comes with a gallery preinstalled, it took all of the albums and photos automatically, which is a cool thing!

But, now the layout is screwed up a little. I get big thumbnails instead of small ones. Please check here:
http://www.ducati1.de/albumall.php?

Here?s another forum I run, which was a fresh install. Everything is how it should be. Same version, 4.1.7.
http://www.scooterundsport.de/forum/albumall.php

Is there a way to fix the gallery thumbnails etc on ducati1?

[quincyy]

Does this plug-in have the capability of uploading multiple pictures? If not, does anyone know of any that allows multiple picture uploads that is free to members?

[S@NL - BlackBik]

Works perfect in 4.1.8

[CSS59]

installed! Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!

[powerwheelie]

Originally Posted by powerwheelie

Hi all,

I recently upgraded from 3.8.2 to 4.1.7. Version 3.8 had a Gallerymod installed. When I installed 4.1.7, which comes with a gallery preinstalled, it took all of the albums and photos automatically, which is a cool thing!

But, now the layout is screwed up a little. I get big thumbnails instead of small ones. Please check here:
http://www.ducati1.de/albumall.php?

Here?s another forum I run, which was a fresh install. Everything is how it should be. Same version, 4.1.7.
http://www.scooterundsport.de/forum/albumall.php

Is there a way to fix the gallery thumbnails etc on ducati1?

I sussed it out, I had to reassign the thumbnail size to every thumbnail in the database. It can be done through the admin CP.

[CSS59]

how do I add a link to albums under the username and location in the thread display view?

[usuyusu]

Thank you for this great mod!

Installed and running on vBSuite 4.1.8

[Megaboost]

Originally Posted by powerwheelie

I sussed it out, I had to reassign the thumbnail size to every thumbnail in the database. It can be done through the admin CP.

Could you please be more Specific on how you did this, I've looked in adminCP and cannot find where to re-assign thumbnails. I also get massive thumbnails and also a white background too

[FannBlade]

Originally Posted by Megaboost

Could you please be more Specific on how you did this, I've looked in adminCP and cannot find where to re-assign thumbnails. I also get massive thumbnails and also a white background too

Look in "update counters" under maintenance section of adminCP