Geek Gallery Popup for vBadvanced Gallery or PhotoPost 4 or higher

IMPORTANT:
Please note that I can no longer support this project. Primarily as it is designed for vb3.0.x and I no longer use that version (im obviously on vb3.5x ). There is a version for vb3.5 over here . This project is left here for the community.
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Inspired by mpdev's photopost popup modifcation.
I used photopost and had his modification installed. When I moved from photopost to vBadvanced Gallery, I needed the same type of hack - so here it is!

This lil doofer is designed to allow your users to open up a popup window while creating a post. The popup window will display all of the users images in thier gallery (vba or photopost) and allow them to click on an image to insert it into their post (inline). They can insert the image as a thumbnail, large image, or a clickable thumbnail that will open the large image in a seperate window. The real cool thing here is that all this works no matter which editor they are using.

You must have vBadvanced Gallery installed and working or PhotoPost 4 or higher duh.

Difficulty: Easy
File modifications: A few (only for phrases).
Time: About 5 minutes
Sign: Libra

Known issues:
Mozilla wysiwyg editor does not allow for html inserts which limits their options to thumbs or original pics only.

Change Log
v. 3 Update 20/2/05
Rewrote most of file to include support for PhotoPost. You can now set up your installation to use either vBadvanced Gallery or PhotoPost 4 or 5. This is determined by the settings in your geek-gallery-popup.php file. Special thanks goes to MPdev for helping sort out the PP integration.

v.2.01 update 11/2/05
fixed mozilla support

v.2 update 3/1/05

1. Added a couple more insertion methods
2. Tidied up UI big time
3. Auto sized popup window
4. Finished the phrasing (found a hard coded phrase)

v.1.1 updated 21/12/04

1. Added phrasegroup additions to newreply, newthread and private as phrases were not appearing there (easy edits).
2. Made the $mediaext easier to edit (types of images allowed in popup)
3. Fixed typo in template that always showed the Next button (took me ages to find the stupid thing)
4. Fixed Back phrase as it was overwritten during the install
5. Fixed problem where in non wysiwyg editor, the clickable thumb was screwing up

To upgrade: Follow instructions in the Readme

Make sure you click the freaking Install button. Otherwise you will run the risk of being skipped over in my Christmas Card Mail Out.

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by MPDev

What I do remember is you sending me this polite PM:



Which makes your reply even more confusing.

Looks like you did a great job on your mod, some great ideas in there. I wasn't trying to be rude, just wondering why the lack of respect for someone elses prior work.

Sorry I got so tiffy. I did spend a lot of time working on this hack (and the changes to yours) and I guess I got my back hair up about being accused of simply copying someone elses work.
I have now waxed my back and taken a step back to look at the situation. Yes, your photopost mod was the basis for inspiration for this hack and yes I should have made mention to that fact (I have sinced edited the original post to make that clear).

However, remember that I did work long and hard on this and made massive improvements on the concept behind your popup. There is little similarity between the two hacks aside from the overall concept.

[MPDev]

No doobt aboot it (I'm not Canadian, so might have misspelled it.), looks great! I wasn't suggesting that the mod was a simple copy, I just felt defensive having developed the original mod and felt that credit should be given where credit is due. While much of the code is new by you, some of mine is still there and it's simply courtesy to acknowledge the effort of those before you.

[trackpads]

This is a GREAT hack! Thanks for all the work!!

-Jason

[trulylowcarb]

I am back to say thank you, too, to all and sundry involved in any way with this fabulous and most impressive hack.
I managed to find my prior error in the file mods, and all is now well. Better than well - I am tickled to have this working, and in conjunction with your articles lite mod, Nail Guy, (modified a bit for my own needs), I finally have the forum I always wanted. My users and I salute you!

[vcross]

I got it working now. I did have to remove the

if(!

line to get it working though. I am a newbie to php, so a I am learning the ins and outs.

I've installed Eclipse (Eclipse.org with a php plugin from SourceForge and it's helped a lot. Wow... I am blown away with all the open source tools out there to help you!

[schford]

Hi - I have installed this but when doing a new post and clicking the my photos text a ne wpopup opens and it has this in

"Parse error: parse error, unexpected ';' in /home/rbw/public_html/geek-gallery-popup.php on line 158"

Any ideas?

cheers

stuart

[The Geek]

Hey Stuart, there is a freaky if(; statement on line 158 of geek-gallery-popup.php that needs removing. Just edit the file, scroll down to the bottom and you will see it.

I have fixed this, but havent been able to release the update as there are some other whistles and bells coming with it that are not quite finished (maybe tomorrow)

[schford]

thats sorted it :-) thanks - all working at www.rebretherworld.com now :-)

cheers

Stuart

[tormodg]

Well, this installation thing really is BUGGY, geek. The readme suggests to run the wrong file, there is an underscore too many in the correct name listed just before that.

And all the bugs mentioned by everyone...man, what are you, a GEEK?

Awesome hack, pal.

But the Mozilla thing...I still don't get the "add link" options in Firefox, only in IE. Is this correct? Apart from this I do find that the images insert correctly, except that it doesn't differentiate between thumbnail and full size (ie, if I choose to insert the full size image it still just picks the thumbnail).

I have vB 3.0.7 and vBadvanced Gallery RC3, just for the record.

Can you do my nails, too? Why are you no longer the nail geek but just a geek?

And I have a million other questions as well, like why is beer so expensive, but we can discuss that some other time.

[tormodg]

Just ONE more question before I leave...the images shown to the users. It means that members must have uploaded images under their own name, right?

Okay, wish list item: A "common" category for images which everyone can use in their posts. Or something.