Social Group and Album Enhancements - [Scandal's] vBGallery

Description
Turn your vBulletin Album system to an organized Gallery. Watch presentation!

The basic idea of Scandal's vBGallery is to organize vBulletin Albums AND forum attachments (pictures) to a section with lots of functions (categories, search, latest objects, statistics, menus etc).
Designed for vBulletin 4.2.0 (otherwise you must add the navbar links manually).



Features:
- Categories system for Albums (like Forums for threads)
- Five (5) levels of subcategories allowed
- Album, picture and comment search
- Who browsing Gallery (= Gallery Home, Albums, Pictures)
- Gallery statistics
- Forum attachments gallery (with ability to act it as category)
- Pages: latest pictures - latest albums - latest comments (with feature to turn them to "All")
- "My Comments" feature (display all user comments)
- My Pictures/Albums in "this" category
- Ability to set custom statusicons to categories
- Notifications to users with "uncategorized" albums to move them
- Ability to hide empty categories (= with 0 albums)
- Admincp environment
- No annoying copyright info

Language Packs:
- Deutsch (Sie) - Deutsch (Du)


Installation:
1. Upload all files of folder "upload" to your forum root.
2. Import *xml product.
3. (Important) Open template album_edit and find:

<fieldset class="blockrow">

add below:

<vb:if condition="$vboptions['sc_gallery_onoff']">
{vb:raw formdata.catid}
</vb:if>

Done!

Upgrade:
1. FIRST OF ALL: Upload and replace all files of folder "upload" to your forum root.
2. THEN: Import XML product with "Allow Overwrite" to YES.

Who can view vBGallery;
Access to vBGallery has all members who belongs to usergroups with "Can View Albums" to YES.

What if I decide to turn off or uninstall vBGallery;
You are back to Albums without data lose (except the category of each Album - function of this hack).

How could I change the size of Gallery's thumbnails?
vBGallery use the thumbnail size you have set via admincp. To change it go to:
Admincp > Options > Message Attachment Options
... and set your value to "Thumbnail Size"
... afterwards you must rebuild attachment thumbnails at: Maintenance > General Update Tools > Rebuild Attachment Thumbnails

How to install navbar links (for vBulletin 4.0.X - 4.1.X)
Read this post

*Links (for vBulletin 4.0.X - 4.1.X)
::Screenshot::::..
GALLERY:
->/gallery.php

My Stuff:
(My Albums)-> /album.php
(Add Album)-> /album.php?do=addalbum
(My Comments)->/gallery.php?do=mycomments
(Pending Albums)->/gallery.php?do=pending

(Latest Pictures)->/gallery.php?do=latestpictures
(Latest Albums)->/gallery.php?do=latestalbums
(Latest Comments)->/gallery.php?do=latestcomments
(Search)->/gallery.php?do=search


Changelog:
v1.0 first release (beta)
v1.2 second release
- New layout choice for galleridisplay: Grid layout with feature to change the width of albumbits via admincp
- Integration of vBulletin's sidebar with Gallery Home (admin can enable or disable it on admincp)
- New feature: flood check and character limit check for the search engine
- Improved breadcrumb (add category name to navbit) ("Gallery > {category name} > Member List > {username} > Albums > {album name}" )
- "Inverse pyramid like" statistics for categories [a main category "has" the albums of its subcategories - like forum statistics (threads/posts) works for subforums]
- New feature: admin can enable/disable the view of empty categories (= categories with 0 Albums)
- New feature: admin can enable/disable the use of search engine by guests
- Building of Gallery Statistics by cronjob (= refresh every one hour). Very important for server performance.
- 1 bug fixed
v1.5 third release
- Classic layout abolished
- New: Notification feature = users with Albums in category "Uncategorized" auto-notified by the system to move them to a subject category (pending albums)
- New feature: admin can set if he want him users to display Albums or Pictures when open the categories.
- New: menus "Browse Albums" & "Browse Pictures" on Gallery Display (user can navigate the albums/pictures in the category)
- New: My albums/pictures in "this" category feature
- Admincp environment improved (List Albums)
- 3 bugs fixed
v1.6 fourth release
- Galleryhome: fixed the view of description for header categories
- New feature: ability to add custom statusicons to categories (screenshot)
- 1 phrase undefined variable fix
- pending albums: 1 bug fixed
v2.0 fifth release
- New feature: forum pictures attachment gallery (with ability to turn it as gallery category)
- search feature for attachment gallery
- 1 phrase issue fixed
- 1 bug fixed
v2.1
- better attachments gallery popup

Developer's notice: I give support only for code errors, not for style problems.

Tested on vBulletin 4.2.0

[ia7]

Any demos of this being run on a custom style? Thanks.

[Front Range 4x4]

I uninstalled due to problems with my albums then found it wasn't due to this mod. Thanks Scandal, looking good!

I have a different style ia7, here's a link: http://www.frontrange4x4.com/forums/gallery.php

I just installed it so almost everything is still Uncategorized until my members change them.

Obviously I need to change the thumbnail sizes but I'm having a bit of trouble with that which isn't related to this mod.

[Front Range 4x4]

Originally Posted by BaanFarsang

There are duplicated of categories when edit albums for moving to desired categories!

Check your template edit, looks like you pasted the code twice.

[Front Range 4x4]

Hi Scandal, I don't like my gallery display as show below. I suspect I need to resize my thumbnails which are at 175px but worry that it may change things elsewhere. Maybe just change it so alignment isn't off? It's the only thing that I'm not thrilled with outside of some needed navigation tweaks that I can handle.

Any help would be appreciated!

TIA!

[Scandal]

Originally Posted by Front Range 4x4

Check your template edit, looks like you pasted the code twice.

Yes, the problem was twice code.

Originally Posted by Front Range 4x4

Hi Scandal, I don't like my gallery display as show below. I suspect I need to resize my thumbnails which are at 175px but worry that it may change things elsewhere. Maybe just change it so alignment isn't off? It's the only thing that I'm not thrilled with outside of some needed navigation tweaks that I can handle.

Any help would be appreciated!

TIA!

Try to change the admincp option "Gallery Display Layout: width of albumbits?".

As regards your Uncategorized Albums, every Sunday members receive notification with their Albums to "Uncategorized" and urged to move to a subject category. This function is very useful for big Galleries when the admin cannot organize alone the Gallery by moving all albums to subject categories. (there is an on/off button for notifications to admincp options).

Thank you very much for pasting link to your site's Gallery! It looks great!

[Front Range 4x4]

Thanks Scandal, that did it! I should remember to look for an easy answer instead of over thinking it.

The members notification about the Uncategorized category is a real + too. I'm 100% happy with it now. 5 stars & nominated!

[CharlieDelta]

Originally Posted by CharlieDelta

Hi Scandal.
I really like your product and think it would fit my needs very well, especially the ability to add categories to albums.
The only thing that would be missing for me is a lot of my members add pictures to their posts as attachments. Would there be a way of incorporating this into your great mod?

Scandal, do you think this is something that you are interested in adding?

[Scandal]

Originally Posted by CharlieDelta

Scandal, do you think this is something that you are interested in adding?

I'm working on it.

[flussmitteldj]

@scandal, can i importet the Photoplog Pro Pictures?

[conradk]

Thanks for this. The "home" gallery page was a little boring for me - so I made the default to, "?do=latestpictures"