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

[fholbert]

To update from an older version you MUST uninstall the product (admincp->manage products: delete Picture and Album Gallery). Then re-install as above.

Reference the note above. Assume I should move or copy the pictures to another location then copy them back after the upgrade. Correct?

Will the user rights be the same when I copy them back?

[viliksar1]

I have a forum where users are charged in the artist of albums, some photos (wide in size) beyond the page. Not every user in a state of their own to reduce the width of the pictures, I would like to do so, that was the standard version of the form.

[john7911]

Thank you
I'll try it later

[leftyz]

I just installed this mod on 4.2.2 forum I'm playing with, I set up a navtab , but can't get it to highlight that tab when I'm in the albumall.php page, how do I do that?

Thanks!

EDIT: Figured it out, I edited the THIS_SCRIPT variable in both albumall.php and picall.php to "gallery" and then set the tab's "Tab Script(s)" to the same, now they both light up the correct tab.

[fholbert]

How would I change the name of the Gallery NavTab?

[ringnews24]

Ive updated this and followed the instructions - the plug in menu stil says the old version

and now my gallery has vanished from the nav bar

[RichieBoy67]

Originally Posted by fholbert

Reference the note above. Assume I should move or copy the pictures to another location then copy them back after the upgrade. Correct?

Will the user rights be the same when I copy them back?

Figure this out yet?

[ckgb]

Breadcrumbs "Album" next to the home icon on the albumall.php / picall.php is still linked to album.php. Is there a way to get it linked to albumall.php?

Thank you

[ringnews24]

Originally Posted by ringnews24

Ive updated this and followed the instructions

and now my gallery has vanished from the nav bar

Anyone?????

I have no gallery anyone help?

[giorgioarmani]

How can I translate this?