4images Gallery 1.7

A lot of people, both here and at 4homepages.de have been requesting for a mod/hack that would integrate vBulletin 3 RCX with 4images 1.7 lately. The solutions are scattered around the forums, but nobody has it all in one page.

So I've decided put them all togather, and release it, so it will be easier for people to do the intigration successfully.

Please note that all the codes in this hack/mod are property of Jan and mtha.
http://www.4homepages.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1659
http://www.4homepages.de/forum/viewt...tart=165#32514

I have tested this on vBulletin 3.0.0 RC3 and it worked successfully.

Features:

• Uses your existing vBulletin powered forum's login account for authentication.
• Uses your existing vBulletin powered forum's whos online feature
• Can be modified to display any information from your existing vBulletin database, perticularly from the "user" table, which means you can display any information about the logged in user.
• Since it is integrated with the database, you can display any gallery information such as latest picture, how many pictures a member have submitted etc... on your vBulletin powered forum.
• Extra modifications can be found here

Screenshot:
Attached

Demo:
http://www.randomforum.com/forums/gallery *NEW
(Please note the gallery sports a custom style, not the default)
http://www.vb-es.com/galeria/ (Non-English)

[phenomenon]

I wonder... does anyone who has the problem of being forced to log back in when another user logs into the gallery/looks at the gallery also have a portal page installed? I have vBadvanced installed. I was required to make the same change to the cookie path that 4images requires -- basically set it to .yourdomain.com

But there's another setting, the "Path to saved cookies" that is by default set to '/'

I have tried changing this and had nothing on the board or gallery or home page work. Anyone know if whether hardcoding this in somehow would make them all work better?

[phenomenon]

cripes, maybe I should just consolidate into one post.

I changed the sessions.php variables around to see if that would help, and it didn't.

basically from

define('COOKIE_NAME', '');
define('COOKIE_PATH', $cookiedomain);
define('COOKIE_DOMAIN', $cookiepath);
$secure = (isset($SERVER_PORT) && $SERVER_PORT == "443") ? 1 : 0;
define('COOKIE_SECURE', $secure);

to

define('COOKIE_NAME', '');
define('COOKIE_PATH', $cookiepath);
define('COOKIE_DOMAIN', $cookiedomain);
$secure = (isset($SERVER_PORT) && $SERVER_PORT == "443") ? 1 : 0;
define('COOKIE_SECURE', $secure);

I logged into the gallery and the forum both with IE 6, and with Firefox 0.8, and logged in as different users. Basically if I did anythiing at all -- clicked anywhere, etc. with one browser, the other would lose its cookie and force me to relog in.

I've reinstalled. I am not using the gallery on different subdomain -- gallery is

http://www.staytunedtheband.com/gallery

and forum currently is

http://www.staytunedtheband.com/vb3 (will change soon to forum)

the cookie is set up in vb3 as .staytunedtheband.com -- this was done for the vbadvanced portal hack.

I made sure to write into the sessions.php file the domain without the following slash.

i can't think of anything else to do. I don't know php enough to be able to trouble shoot. Crap I'm a bass player in a band. I'd just like this to work. Is there a solution, or has this hack been abandoned?

[Lionel]

Originally Posted by phenomenon

If I log out of vbulletin, it doesn't matter if I log into the gallery or not, I will not be able to open the admin in gallery.

if I log out of the gallery, I will be logged out of both vbulletin and the gallery. If I try to make any edits in the admin tool in the first tab, it will ask me to login. However, that login won't work, and will redirect me to the forum. If I log into the forum, then go back and hit the control panel button, I will login to the gallery control with no problems.

I am having the same problem too on VB Gold. Logging out of the gallery does not log me out of VB. Besides that, it is a great hack and thanks to the author for making it available.

[phenomenon]

I dunno. as much time as I spent integrating this to look like the forum, I'm getting no response here, no response on 4images. Perhaps trying to integrate coppermine instead is the way to go. Funny, I've seen a few phpBB photo hacks now (4images is one). Kind of annoying that there are several great ones and virtually nothing for vbulletin.

[BlackxRam]

This looks like it might work for me. Has this been successful Phenomenon?

I wouldnt count on ANY support from the actual 4IMAGES website. ITS ALMOST NON-EXISTANT. The creater of 4IMAGES is created 4IMAGES 2.0 and is not even active on the site until its released.

[BlackxRam]

Hey Phenomenon, what exactly did you change from the original hack version to make it work? I still cant work it out. hmm

[BlackxRam]

I have just RE-TRIED the Installation and it DOES WORK. It worked flawlessly, which means i screwed up somewhere down the road. heheh.


This integration DOES work for VB3. WONDERFUL JOB MAN!

Now, I have yet to see myself get logged out, so heres hoping.

[BlackxRam]

Originally Posted by phenomenon

I dunno. as much time as I spent integrating this to look like the forum, I'm getting no response here, no response on 4images. Perhaps trying to integrate coppermine instead is the way to go. Funny, I've seen a few phpBB photo hacks now (4images is one). Kind of annoying that there are several great ones and virtually nothing for vbulletin.

Coppermine isnt as pretty as 4IMAGES is. I do not get logged out of the 4IMAGES page while im in there. However I do get logged out when i Close my Browser. To relogin again all i have to do is visit the forums AND then visit my Gallery.

[phenomenon]

yeah but the creator of 4images isn't the person who released the hack here. grumble grumble. If I had time in the day to teach myself php I'd figure out the problems myself. As it is I'm going to probably go to a php pro and get this fixed once and for all.

4Images is ALMOST working for me. I want the netPBM; the version of php installed on my host is pretty old and I hear bad things about older GD quality. I don't want to install imagemagik -- I've got netPBM already! However, coppermine doesn't work with netPBM. Menalto gallery does but I hate the popup windows.

And I've spent a good 30 hours working on 4images.

Anyway, what isn't working:

1. Login is erratic. On Firefox win/mac I log right in and it recognizes I'm logged in. Safari I log in, it sees me online, but keeps the login/pw box up. I haven't tested on IE for mac because it sucks more booty than a retired porn star.

2. Once logged in, getting into the admin cp is erratic. Sometimes I go right in. Sometimes it logs me into the forum and I have to go back. Sometimes it appears to login then refreshes the screen with the login/pw.

3. Cookies get hosed when other users look at either the forum or the gallery (i'm not sure about the rest of the site). If I'm working on a template, and I try to save, and someone else has visited I suddenly have to relog in and have lost my changes.

4. Thumbnail creation is buggy. I have two domains with the same host; both have/had 4images. One works fine with netPBM. One doesn't at all. Same install, from the same binaries, installed into the same place on the server. Only difference is one is working with a vbulletin forum, and one was just totally independant.

So that's that. I get all these problems with a fresh install, or with my skinned install. don't matter. It's driving me nucking futs; especially that my posts are just being ignored.

[phenomenon]

Originally Posted by BlackxRam

Coppermine isnt as pretty as 4IMAGES is. I do not get logged out of the 4IMAGES page while im in there. However I do get logged out when i Close my Browser. To relogin again all i have to do is visit the forums AND then visit my Gallery.

REALLY.

have you had someone else log into the forum while you're dorking around on it?

Have you used Safari on mac? What browser are you using?