Social Group and Album Enhancements - Make a forum Gallery from User Albums

UPDATE:
Well, there is another hack been released which is more or less the same as my initial hack, so I recommend that you all use that from now on
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=172215

INTRO:

This is a crude attempt at making a forum gallery from all the user albums on your vb 3.7.x forum.

I can imagine that there are many other better ways to achieve this, but I think my method is quick and easy enough to be shared with other users on this forum.

It is also my first attempt at a vbulletin hack, so forgive my naivety re all this.

STEPS:

1. Copy the default vbulletin album.php file and rename to (say) gallery.php
2. Open this new file in a text / php editor and follow the instructions found in the attached galleryFromAlbumsMod.txt file.
3. That's it!

DEMO:

• http://www.badminton.ie/forum/gallery.php

HISTORY:

• 02.03.2008: 1.02 - Changed code to make sure only public albums are shown, added clause for guest navigation when paging, and hide username from top navbar.
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• 02.03.2008: 1.01 - Changed code in order to page through all forum public user albums
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• 01.03.2008: 1.00 - Initial basic gallery

NOTES:

• You need to set "Can View Albums" to yes in usergroup permissions. The amount of albums per page is decided by the value in "Albums Per Page" in "User Profile: Album Options" in adminCP options.
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• The amount of albums per page is decided by the value in "Albums Per Page" in "User Profile: Album Options" in adminCP options.
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• User css has an effect on the gallery look. (I have defaulted it to userid 1)

COMING SOON:

• Separate template for the gallery listing, which will enable the username to be displayed beside each respective album.

[pipedreams]

* reserved *

[Itworx4me]

Get the following error when you click your link for demo

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[pipedreams]

Apologies re this, I forgot the user albums were set to private on that forum.

Here is another instead:
http://www.badminton.ie/forum/gallery.php?u=1

Need to have the ?u=1 on the url, for the gallery to be available for guest viewing - (will work on sorting this out.)

[7lanet]

thanks

very nice ^_^

but
Please activate visitors

[ChurchMedia]

I was hoping someone would do this! It works great. Good job!

[Zaiaku]

Awesome mod. No extra files just a copy of an existing one and nothing to import. Thx!

[kevinfx]

nice idea
but it doesn't show all available album, only shows 10 albums ...

[Brew]

The mod seems to pull in any custom CSS from the users profile.

http://www.oldhouseforums.com/forums/gallery.php?u=1

This could be a really good mod if you keep working on it. There's a lot you can do

[pipedreams]

Originally Posted by kevinfx

nice idea
but it doesn't show all available album, only shows 10 albums ...

I was thinking that this might happen, its obviously due to the limits set in admincp for user albums.

Originally Posted by Brew

The mod seems to pull in any custom CSS from the users profile.

Was thinking that that would happen to....

Anyway I promise to keep working on this, and may even write some stand alone code altogether...