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

[VertoPB]

Hello.

Thanks for sharing your work.

I installed the application but nothing happens.
Previously I used vBGallery with an earlier version of vBulletin (vB4.1) and worked smoothly, but with version 4.2.1 does not work.

Can you help?

Sorry for my English, but only speak Spanish and I'm using the Google translator.

Thank you very much and kind regards.

[VertoPB]

Hello again.

After various tests, I managed to determine that what does not work in my installation, is the link in the navbar. The navtab if it works, but what interests me is the link that works in the navigation bar. For graphic design I do not want to add more tabs.
Is it possible that with the new update to vB 4.2.1 is no longer operating the navbar product ? How can I fix it?

Regards

[albanah]

installed

[fxdigi-cash]

Originally Posted by VertoPB

Hello again.

After various tests, I managed to determine that what does not work in my installation, is the link in the navbar. The navtab if it works, but what interests me is the link that works in the navigation bar. For graphic design I do not want to add more tabs.
Is it possible that with the new update to vB 4.2.1 is no longer operating the navbar product ? How can I fix it?

Regards

hey,

I don't get it, you want to add or remove the navbar button??

explain a little...

[Lionel]

Hi, would you know why the gallery link is displaying like that? 4.2.0

thanks

[jmorton]

installed and working great

[zapiy]

Hi there we have removed this mod as it was unused but the nav tab was left behind.. How do i remove it as i have looked everywhere.

Cheers

[fxdigi-cash]

Originally Posted by zapiy

Hi there we have removed this mod as it was unused but the nav tab was left behind.. How do i remove it as i have looked everywhere.

Cheers

remove all mod content the same as the first time you uploaded them to your site.

[Mallcom]

Have used this MOD for a while now, and now the users wonder why it does not find the option to sort the pictures, they want to put the pictures in a certain order. I've been looking but can not find any such feature, I blind or is there not?

URL: http://www.husbilskompisar.se/portal/albumall.php?

[placeshifter]

I'm getting broken thumbnails on albums and photos.

It seems to apply to photos/albums that were at one point public, but then were turned private.

For some reason, the mod is showing the ones that turned private as blank photos with a link -- and clicking on the link sends you to an invalid page.

I already rebuilt and updated the thumbnails etc on Vbulletin but no luck fixing this issue.

Also, how can I change the navigation position of the gallery so that it appears in the middle of other nav tabs and not at the end?