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 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.

Hey Tormod.

You are right - the readme refers to a different hack (not too many picked up on that though!). And yes, there is a freaky IF in the main file.
The problem is that I havent been able to upgrade the package yet. Mainly because I am in middle of an upgrade for it. MPdev asked me to make changes to make it work with Photopost and so I have modified it to work with both vba and pp. Once I can finish marrying up the cahnges - we shall have abrand spanking new version free of the nigglets you mentioned.

THe problem mentioned regarding Firefox is that you cant insert HTML with the mozilla wysiwyg editor. That mans I cant insert a hyperlinked image therefore I had to elimianate those options from mozilla browsers.

I would be happy to do your nails - however they run ?300 per set if I do them versus ?30 from a standard salon
And I changed from the Nail Geek to The Geek as it was pissing me off that my vb.org posts were getting higher ranks on google than my web site

PS - Beer is expensive to keep the cost of Vodka cheap

Ill see if I can complete this today

[The Geek]

Upgraded package to version 3 to support PhotoPost 4+


To upgrade - uninstall then re-install.

nJoy

[NuclioN]

I just don't get it why the safe mode MUST be off. Many providers would rather die then turn that off.

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by NuclioN

I just don't get it why the safe mode MUST be off. Many providers would rather die then turn that off.

? eh ?

[NuclioN]

safe mode restrictions eh. Mailed our host almost dizzy with requests for turning that off. Nope! No way. (nothing to do with this hack but with the photo software as you can imagine)

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by NuclioN

safe mode restrictions eh. Mailed our host almost dizzy with requests for turning that off. Nope! No way. (nothing to do with this hack but with the photo software as you can imagine)

Oh right! I thought you meant that this hack needed safe mode off!

Which system do you mean - vBa or Photopost?

[NuclioN]

Both

[SVTBlackLight01]

I know I'm missing something obvious, but my pop-up doesn't pop-up.

[The Geek]

Do you see the My Photos link?

BTW: Could you please click install when you get a minute

[SVTBlackLight01]

Clicked install

The link is there, but it ain't popin' up.

I'm also getting an error on the page (newreply and newtread) with the pop-up code in the editor_smiliebox template:

Line: 130
Char: 103
Error: Expected ')'
Code: 0