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

[john102774]

Did not work for me. Getting a 500 error. vBulletin version 4.0.3. Had to uninstall.

[edefauler]

Hello,

i habe the problem with vb 4.2.3 that i cant create a new album
No user an no admn can create an new album
The usergroups have the permission

Can everyone help me ?

Norbert

[powerwheelie]

Hello,

does anyone know how to batch download all the files from the gallery to a local HD?
All files are stored on my server, but they do have an inproper file extension (*.attach and *.thumb).

[Dykkesiden]

Hi

I see there is quite a few months since there has been action in this thread.

Tested to install this and it looks fine. I am on version 4.2.3 of VB.

There is one issue though - I do not see the albums in mobile devices. It is fine on desktop - see http://www.dykkesiden.com/forum/albumall.php?

However it comes up blank on mobile devices.

Any tips?

[Mark.B]

Originally Posted by Dykkesiden

Hi

I see there is quite a few months since there has been action in this thread.

Tested to install this and it looks fine. I am on version 4.2.3 of VB.

There is one issue though - I do not see the albums in mobile devices. It is fine on desktop - see http://www.dykkesiden.com/forum/albumall.php?

However it comes up blank on mobile devices.

Any tips?

If you're using the built in vB4 mobile style, then this mod doesn't have a template for that, hence the blank page.

[RaiinbowEyes]

On vB 4.2.3- get 404 Not Found Errors when I click on the album gallery or picture gallery links, sadly.