Geek Gallery Popup for vBadvanced Gallery or PhotoPost 4 or higher

IMPORTANT:
Please note that I can no longer support this project. Primarily as it is designed for vb3.0.x and I no longer use that version (im obviously on vb3.5x ). There is a version for vb3.5 over here . This project is left here for the community.
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Inspired by mpdev's photopost popup modifcation.
I used photopost and had his modification installed. When I moved from photopost to vBadvanced Gallery, I needed the same type of hack - so here it is!

This lil doofer is designed to allow your users to open up a popup window while creating a post. The popup window will display all of the users images in thier gallery (vba or photopost) and allow them to click on an image to insert it into their post (inline). They can insert the image as a thumbnail, large image, or a clickable thumbnail that will open the large image in a seperate window. The real cool thing here is that all this works no matter which editor they are using.

You must have vBadvanced Gallery installed and working or PhotoPost 4 or higher duh.

Difficulty: Easy
File modifications: A few (only for phrases).
Time: About 5 minutes
Sign: Libra

Known issues:
Mozilla wysiwyg editor does not allow for html inserts which limits their options to thumbs or original pics only.

Change Log
v. 3 Update 20/2/05
Rewrote most of file to include support for PhotoPost. You can now set up your installation to use either vBadvanced Gallery or PhotoPost 4 or 5. This is determined by the settings in your geek-gallery-popup.php file. Special thanks goes to MPdev for helping sort out the PP integration.

v.2.01 update 11/2/05
fixed mozilla support

v.2 update 3/1/05

1. Added a couple more insertion methods
2. Tidied up UI big time
3. Auto sized popup window
4. Finished the phrasing (found a hard coded phrase)

v.1.1 updated 21/12/04

1. Added phrasegroup additions to newreply, newthread and private as phrases were not appearing there (easy edits).
2. Made the $mediaext easier to edit (types of images allowed in popup)
3. Fixed typo in template that always showed the Next button (took me ages to find the stupid thing)
4. Fixed Back phrase as it was overwritten during the install
5. Fixed problem where in non wysiwyg editor, the clickable thumb was screwing up

To upgrade: Follow instructions in the Readme

Make sure you click the freaking Install button. Otherwise you will run the risk of being skipped over in my Christmas Card Mail Out.

[trulylowcarb]

Am I being too literal? The way I read it, the geek-gallery-popup.php file that goes in your forum directory is step 2... do I maybe need to make the changes in that file and upload it before the install script will run?

[trulylowcarb]

OK, I just deleted the other download and started over, just for grins and giggles, and now I am getting the install screen.... maybe it was gremlins. Too weird, as I made no changes in the file prior to uploading the first time!!

[trulylowcarb]

okay dokey, I have completed the install, including the fixes mentioned above. What am I supposed to see now? I have a new thread window open and everything looks just the same to me ...

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by trulylowcarb

okay dokey, I have completed the install, including the fixes mentioned above. What am I supposed to see now? I have a new thread window open and everything looks just the same to me ...

Sounds like a bad upload. Its happened to me before.

you should see a my photos/select option with the editor. If not... your phrases may not have been built after installation.
Search for one of the phrases (like my photos) then edit it and click save. that usually fixes the phrase prblem.

[trulylowcarb]

Thanks again for your input. The problem is definitely in the phrases - as in, I don't seem to have any new ones. I ran the install again (twice), then seached again.... no go.
The second time I installed, I copied the list of phrases it said it was inserting to my clipboard, maybe I could add them manually.. ? not sure about the typeid thing though. Any ideas or tips as to trying to add them manually?

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by trulylowcarb

Thanks again for your input. The problem is definitely in the phrases - as in, I don't seem to have any new ones. I ran the install again (twice), then seached again.... no go.
The second time I installed, I copied the list of phrases it said it was inserting to my clipboard, maybe I could add them manually.. ? not sure about the typeid thing though. Any ideas or tips as to trying to add them manually?

The phrases will be installed, its a semi common problem with installing phrases.
You need to find one of the phrases, edit it and then save it again (without changing it).

Try searching for the following phrase:
Insert thumbnail that opens the original picture in a seperate window

then edit it and save . That will rebuild all of your phrases and sort you out.

HTH's

[trulylowcarb]

Well there ya go, that one came up, (nothing did earlier for my photos) and I did the edit-save thing on one ... still nothing changed ...Will go back and double-check my insertions and changes now, I guess .... well maybe not right NOW.... It's Saturday after all, and I have plans that involve King Crab legs with drawn butter and a big sirloin and some Miller Lites with my Valentine.

Will surely be back by-and-by to let you know if I ever got it working though, or to whine some more and then try to pick your brain again, if not. I appreciate the hand-holding.

....Taking Phraser off of stun for the weekend....

[MPDev]

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[The Geek]

Get out man. If you remember I helped fix your freaking hack.

Admitedly this was inspired by your hack as I was using it when I used photopost. When I switched to another product, my users still wanted the popup feature so I made a new popup box that (IMO is far better than the photopost one).

Its ironic you used my code to make your hack work, promised to give me credit, didnt, then come on here pissed that I stole bog standard javascript and an html link.

[edit]Took a deep breath and re-wrote
I also added the reference to your hack in the first post.
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[MPDev]

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