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

[addamroy]

I was all disappointed when I realized this only displays pictures from albums, and doesn't display attachment images from posts

Why is this? Will this ever be a feature?

[concepts]

Amazing Work!

[BirdOPrey5]

Has anyone ever made a mobile template for this?

[hurricane_sh]

This plugin seems to cause this problem: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forum...=1424058722134

[Toorak Times]

Hi guys, this won't let me upgrade from 108 to 109, any ideas anyone?

[djcaseanova]

LOL Any chance this would work on vB5 ????

[htscpl]

Just installed this product a few days ago yeah, slow on the upgrade , anyway, seemed to work ok but then at the top of my album page started getting this warning:
Warning: Only variables should be assigned by reference in ..../album.php on line 1871

Searched this thread but didn't find the answer or missed it (sorry for that) if someone can point me in the right direction or help out many thanks!

[eboggs_jkvl]

I installed the latest version on my 4.2.3 Suite.

It says it installed in the admin cp but I see no tab appearing on my cms or my forum.

I do see the product in my Navigation Manager and it says it is active but no tab appears on the top of the CMS/Forum screens.

Does this product work on 4.2.3 Suite?

Of course there is the ever obvious old man doing something stupid possibility but let's not go there!

Elmer

[friendlymela]

good one

[gmhoward]

Originally Posted by eboggs_jkvl

I installed the latest version on my 4.2.3 Suite.

It says it installed in the admin cp but I see no tab appearing on my cms or my forum.

I do see the product in my Navigation Manager and it says it is active but no tab appears on the top of the CMS/Forum screens.

Does this product work on 4.2.3 Suite?

Of course there is the ever obvious old man doing something stupid possibility but let's not go there!

Elmer

You will need to make a link in the Navigation Manager of the AdminCP

AdminCP > Settings > Navigation Manager

Add a link and call it whatever you wish, such as albums

Mine looks like this:

http://www.fooguild.com/forums/albumall.php?=>blank;6 2 10 18 15

I believe those numbers are the usergroups which have access.

It's been a while since I have messed with this so I hope it helps.