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

[vetty]

It didn't work (on my site) with vb suite 4.1.11 and vbseo

When the first 2 options are clicked ie., albumall.php and picall.php

It Redirects to my forum http://domain.com/forums/ and nothing happens.

I have reinstalled many times but didn't work. Pl let me know why ? Thank you.

[SnaKe |WiH|]

ugh. Not sure what is happening.

Install:
4.1.11
product-gallery-109
product-gallery-navbar

Issue:
I am in a usergroup with all permissions on yes, but when I go to the my albums or add album link I get "you have no permission to access this page". Albums set to yes in User:Albums in the admincp.

what am I missing?

Help is greatly appreciated!

[Akyeame Kwame]

Originally Posted by vetty

It didn't work (on my site) with vb suite 4.1.11 and vbseo

When the first 2 options are clicked ie., albumall.php and picall.php

It Redirects to my forum http://domain.com/forums/ and nothing happens.

I have reinstalled many times but didn't work. Pl let me know why ? Thank you.

I'm getting the same issue with the same details 4.1.11 and vbseo
picall.php shows but albumall.php redirects to forumhome (forums/forum.php)

[ChrisPhantom]

How would I change the upload size limit to 1 MB?

I struggle to find where you change the upload size limit.

[michaelbang]

I'm having trouble with the speed of the mod. It loads every picture one by one, and takes what seems like forever to load the full page.

Have I done something wrong? It's the only page that loads slowly, so I dont think the problem is my server speed.

Any suggestions? Would be much appreciatet... If not, I think I'm gonna uninstall again.

[michaelbang]

Uninstalled for now

[G37Sam]

Installed and tested on vb 4.1.12

Works like a charm

[michaelbang]

Originally Posted by G37Sam

Installed and tested on vb 4.1.12

Works like a charm

No problem with speed when loading gallery page?

[vnairp11]

How do i fix this... look at the gallery tab, how do i fix that arrow on top

http://mastiffmixed.com/forums/forum.php

i would like to either remove the arrow on top all together or put the arrow next to the menu . thanks

[Videx]

Originally Posted by bankcroft

Any ideas?

Since that looks nothing at all like mine, I would assume it's a custom style issue. Try it in the default style to confirm.

PS I'm a native English speaker and that's the first time in my life I have ever seen the word "educible". I had to look it up. If it's some translation program that added that one it needs to be fixed, because that ain't right.