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

[Chadi]

Anyone know please?

[aberg]

Well you can do it easy bij the navigation menu
As example
Make a new TAB like Albums
after that make new links

album.php?do=latest - Last Albums

albumall.php? - All Albums

album.php{session.sessionurl_q} - My Albums

album.php?do=addalbum - Add Album

picall.php? - Photogallery

[Chadi]

Your my albums method is not working for me though, not sure why

http://www.talkjesus.com/album.php{session.sessionurl_q}

Just redirects to home page.

Using Tabs vbSoporte mod

[aberg]

I think with the new version Vbulletin you can uninstall Using Tabs vbSoporte mod and use the built in navigation menu from Vbulletin.
The {session.sessionurl_q} is a command what you can use in the navigation menu

[Chadi]

You can't add drop down menu options

[gpinjason]

I just installed this, and its working great using the vB Navigation manager on 4.2.0, but when viewing All Albums or Photo Gallery, the "selected" tab moves back to Forum, instead of staying on Album. Does anyone know where to add the "THIS_SCRIPT" code to keep the Album tab selected when selecting these options?

[Hippy]

Originally Posted by gpinjason

I just installed this, and its working great using the vB Navigation manager on 4.2.0, but when viewing All Albums or Photo Gallery, the "selected" tab moves back to Forum, instead of staying on Album. Does anyone know where to add the "THIS_SCRIPT" code to keep the Album tab selected when selecting these options?

Set Append parent tab id to yes on the links and the tab to I believe

[gpinjason]

Thanks Hippy! Although that didn't work completely, it did help point me in the right direction!

the links themselves don't have the option to append tab id. so I just went to the parent tab, got the tab id and on the links that needed it to show selected, I added ?tabid=xx to the end of the url.. works great!

[Hippy]

Right that's part of Andreas mod..
Glad you got it tho

[muffel]

I have the same problem. I want to mark the new "Album-Tab" as active, when clicked on any link in this pop-down-menu.

Attachment 139003

Can anyone please explain me again, how to do it?

We are using Vbulletin 4.1.12