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

[Gamelobby]

Originally Posted by Alibass

Works fine on 4.2.0 PL3

Weird, cuz i got nothing.. absolutely nothing, no tab, no bar, no options, nothing.! lol

[Alibass]

You don't have it installed in your forum root correctly. As I mentioned before it works great. :up:

[Gamelobby]

Originally Posted by Alibass

You don't have it installed in your forum root correctly. As I mentioned before it works great. :up:

Works great for you & that is great.. for you.! lol
Don't think that just because it works for you that everything you use is going to work for everyone else.. we all have different boards, with different styles, etc. so thanks for the help, but its not really helpful.

Also, I have dbl checked because sh*t happens & no one is perfect, but even after i double checked yup it is installed in the forum root, & there is NOTHING on my navbar (or a navtab), or in my options or anywhere else.. EXCEPT that picall.php & albumall.php do work, so i just made my own tabs, & links.

[Alibass]

Originally Posted by Gamelobby

Works great for you & that is great.. for you.! lol
Don't think that just because it works for you that everything you use is going to work for everyone else.. we all have different boards, with different styles, etc. so thanks for the help, but its not really helpful.

Also, I have dbl checked because sh*t happens & no one is perfect, but even after i double checked yup it is installed in the forum root, & there is NOTHING on my navbar (or a navtab), or in my options or anywhere else.. EXCEPT that picall.php & albumall.php do work, so i just made my own tabs, & links.

Well mate what can I say, you've been a member of this site since 07 and you can plainly see this mod has not been updated in 2 years. Sometimes the best of mods do not work straight out of the box and you have to tweak to your site to make them work. But all said and done the mod does what it says it does and even on the last release of 4.2PL3

[Gamelobby]

I'm sure it does, & that is why i was asking what might need to be tweeked.
But saying ""It works fine" isn't very helpful. lol

[Alibass]

Originally Posted by Gamelobby

Weird, cuz i got nothing.. absolutely nothing, no tab, no bar, no options, nothing.! lol

Originally Posted by Gamelobby

I'm sure it does, & that is why i was asking what might need to be tweeked.
But saying ""It works fine" isn't very helpful. lol

Your original reply shows no asking for help and was not very self explanatory. Saying I've got nothing makes it a little hard figured out your problem and usually when you say you have nothing it's because you did not install in the forums root directory.

[Chadi]

Having this weird issue. Noticed many pics not showing up (replicated on 2 different skins and Chrome and IE10). Using vbulletin 4.2.0

Anyone know what might cause this?

another issue is the navtab/navbar plugin for the menu. Drop down is transparent and mis-aligned as you can see

[fxdigi-cash]

great mod. works on vb4.2 fine.

[RichieBoy67]

Originally Posted by KnarfR

It was a vBSEO problem and I have remedy it.

Thanks.

Frank!

Nice for you that you have a remedy but how about posting it for everyone else??

Thanks

[Pop's Stang]

Hi everyone. I know this has been asked a few times, but I have never seen a answer to the problem. I am using vb4.2. I installed the program but the first two tabs "Album Gallery" and "Picture Gallery" Don't work. I get the following error message: 404 Error File Not Found



Can someone give me step by step instructions on how to fix these 2 tabs.

Thank you. :up: