Photopost to vb/Home Intergration v1.7

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// Photopost 4.6.6 to vbhome/forum Intergration (vb2.0 & vbadvanced 1.01 vb3 Intergation
// Created by PixelFX & Respective Developers
// Version 2.0 in design
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NEW UPDATE COMING: I've got this system working with vb3.o and v2.0

New Credits:
Updated Hack: PixelFX
New Thumbnail Includer: Midnightz
And Thanks to everyone below.

Update Coming Soon!

INTRODUCTION:
After searching the web and a few sites, I wanted a way to show single / latest gallery images on my
vbhome/vbulletin forum. This hack, was setup in hopes to help others get a similar result to get gallery
images from photopost to show up on your vbhome/vbulletin front page. The concepts for this hack came is
from a combo of locations, as well as adding some of my own custom hacks and templates.

NOTE 4 vbindex: This hack should work with both vbhome & vbindex, the only difference for vbindex is you would make changes to the vbindex index.php not the vbhome index.php, also you would setup templates for use in the vbindex templates rather vbhome. Make sence? I'll rate a seperate txt for that soon.

CREDITS:
- Grunt for phpinclude,
- Matt Chroust for thumbincluder.php,
- Craigr for helping at vbhome, with support
- TECK for vbhome 4.2
- Enthusiast, Inc. for PhotoPost 4.1.0, RC1 & community
- Jelsoft Enterprises Limited for vbulletin 2.3.2
- vBulletin.org for support learning how to hack vb
- PixelFX for vb/home templates & some custom php vb hacking below.
- midnightz for updated thumbnail includer (see end of thread)

HACK ADDONS:
Forum home addon - Mickie D Follow Link below for addon download
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=123

Catigory Exclude Addon - PixelFX Credits in zip file,
http://files.pixelfx.ca/catigory_exclude_addon1.0.zip

LICENCE INFO:
To get all required files you need licenced copy of vbulletin v2.2.x / 2.3.2 & photopost pro 4.1.0+ /

I'm working on version for vb3.0 gamma/RC1 as well, which is in testing

FILES NEED:
vBulletin 2.3.3+ (installed) Tested on 2.2.x as well
PhotoPost 4.51+ (Choose to intergrate with vbulletin when you install photopost.)
vBHome 4.2+ (clean install)
thumbincluder.php tweaked, and link to database.
thumbincluder.txt modified by pixelfx for catigory addon - coming soon.
thumbincluder.txt version 2, by midnightz

I take no credit for the thumbnailincluder.php which is needed for this hack to run. Although I have made edits
to it, for my next version of this script

LOCATION OF THUMBNAIL-INCLUDER:
(requires membership account and licence for photopost)
http://www.photopost.com/members/for...threadid=26550

for the thumbnailincluder11.txt rename to what ever ya want file.php be sure you set varables to your liking.
Then upload, To your gallery's root directory. I've found you can use multiple files and it works fine See addon coming soon for that.

Example: http://www.url.com/gallery/thumbnailincluder.php

SUPPORT:
I will only support this hack on this thread currently. aka here,
if you would like to create addons please PM me
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=53539

BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING BACK UP YOUR FORUM DATABASE & GALLERY,
FILES ETC. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.
I've tested this on my two vb sites, and it works awesome. However I can't predict what it
will do on sites that are heavely hacked.

LAST UPDATED:
December 7th,2003

(note that update news info can befound at end of thread)

Note: This should work if you edit the forum/index.php but only if you want images to show up in
your forums rather than your vbhome. This is something I need to test more, so will post alternate update shortly for that.

NOTE: this version is for vbhome 4.2 to php 4.1.0 intergration, again addon will be posted soon.
NOTE: Text File Download at buttom of file,

MAIN DEMO:
NA - Coming soon.. for version 2.0

COMING SOON:
Addon - News & Specific Image Catigory on it's own page.
Example of addon:
- Supports Random Images
- Supports Recent Images
- Supports Most Popular Images

This works with main hack, and or sub pages (coming soon!)

TESTED ON:
vbulletin v2.3.2 Final, Photopost 4.1.0 RC2 , and vbhome v4.2 (clean install)

PLEASE CLICK INSTALL:
If you use this hack, thanks

News Update: [12.04.2004]
I'm still working on a vb 3.0.3/pp4.8.5 version of this. Its also got a unique gallery/news system with the update. It's taken a while for me to get it out as I've been swamped with contracts, but I hope to release update soon.

[Intex]

OK, no probs. Thx.

On a slightly different note do you know of any hack that lets the vB forum members know if a new photo has been uploaded? See my request here.

[Alien]

Works perfectly, thanks so much for putting together some nice clear instructions!

-Jason

[PixelFx]

your welcome Alien,

[Mickie D]

is it possable to add a photo uploads section to the post bit ???

ie

Posts 3400
Member 1
Location UK
Pic Uploads 23 <---or something like that

under the avatar somewhere have it show how many pictures each member has added .. i think that will gr8ly increase the amount of pictures newbies and any other members will add

let me know if this is possable please

but thank you very much this hack is fantastic

[Russ_T]

Hi,

I'm getting a query failed output but have no idea why, I'll look into it more but is there a common problem I might be having?

Thanks

[Alien]

For some odd reason, I noticed shortly after adding this that my page render times increased hugely.. I went up to 5.x seconds when I was under 1.. I removed it until I figure something else out...

[Intex]

PixelFX - I've still not worked out the issue with the windows path. Have you (or anyone else) been successful with this yet?

[Mickie D]

also the last bit of code for the php_include template

$postthumbnail = implode("", file("http://www.yourdomain.com/gallery/thumbincluder.php"));

is thre no elseif ode you could use ???

because i have my gallery site on another domain and my gallery domain went down for 24 hours and all my members told me there was an error and i was taking ages to load

maybe if you had php code where if the first url is unreachable then it would take another url to an image with GALLERY CURRENTLY OFFLINE instead of messing all the forums up

[PixelFx]

I'm still learning php but will look into it,

I'm trying to get my code to show up with multiple Thumbnail includers on the same forum, with multi-ple catigories. showing up specifically.

DEMO: http://games.shukenja.com/swg/index.php

[Mickie D]

thanks very much i dont get any errors or any problems unless my other url goes down then the implode code gives about 4 errors.. and that really slows my site down .. but hopefully my gallery wont go down anymore