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

[Megaboost]

OK I've re-assigned Thumbnails but it is didn't work

EDIT: It's ok, I hadn't got my thumbnail size set low enough in my settings and its looking better now.

But I'm still not sure why the outline boxes are so big and haven't found out how to fix it yet... Does anyone know how I can fix the size of the boxes?

[thespi]

What was updated between v1.08 & 1.09, is there a point in me upgrading as I can't see a difference, I'm running vB 4.1.9

[OldSchoolDSL]

Surprisingly still working in

4.1.10 Alpha 2

Notice: I have requested vBulletin make this a default feature. And requested that the author be given credit for it.

http://tracker.vbulletin.com/browse/VBIV-13975

This mod was marked as Re-usable Code

[gezuvor]

Just installed this and it appears to be a great mod!

One question though; are attachments in threads added to a users gallery?? Would be a nice feature!

[GhostHunter2010]

installed on vb 4.1.9 works perfect thx for the hack

[Vattermann]

Works fine on 4.1.9 Thanks :-)

[Megaboost]

Can someone help me change my background color from white on the picture comments as below. I'm using Avenger Blue Theme and can't find anywhere to chage this.

Here's my problem...

[K4GAP]

Originally Posted by Megaboost

Can someone help me change my background color from white on the picture comments as below. I'm using Avenger Blue Theme and can't find anywhere to chage this.

Here's my problem...

Why not post that on the Avenger Blue Theme thread? He has addressed this problem in the past if you will take the time to read them.

[thespi]

It currently doesn't render correctly in the premium mobile style, that's the only issue we have with it at the moment. And there's no change log between 108 & 109

[CSS59]

How can I change the order of the Gallery tab? I want it in front of what's new, not after?
Thank you!