My custom photo gallery

[N!ck]

Hey guys, check this out:
http://www.v-driveboat.com/gallery.php

It's the beginning stages of my photo gallery addon for vBulletin. Overgrow generously made an exception to his policy and shared his photo gallery with me, but it wasn't working with my server, so I had to start from scratch. I did, however, use Overgrow's gallery as a guide for creating the layout of my own.

Anyway, just thought I'd show off my hard work.

[Dean C]

Wow that's excellent work nick !

Only thing i don't like so far is that there is not an a-z listing up the top. Other than that its awesome.

Do your users have their own gallery section in their profile?

Regards

- miSt

[Overgrow]

Yes, nice work N!ck A to Z is passe though, get a user search box. I like your captions.. I used to have something like that as well, that would be nice to search on since people could describe the photo content.

http://pictures.overgrow.com
Gallery V2.1 (maybe 1 vB3.x release! hehe)


ok, where is the hack that produces those cool signatures?

[N!ck]

Thanks guys, I will start working on the alphabetical listings. I thought about integrating a user finder / caption search, but I'm wondering whether that might add too much server load, since each row would need to be checked for whether it contains a given string.

Mist, the latest photo that a user uploaded is shown in their profile. Example: http://www.v-driveboat.com/member.ph...info&userid=42

Overgrow, the sig image is my own creation (idea is filburt1's, though), but if you want some explanation regarding how to create it, just PM me.

[colicab-d]

hey kool this work with gd library 1 or 2 if even gd?

if there was few more fetures like categories etc i would deff love to see this never mind deff use it

[N!ck]

This works with GD only, but I'm not sure which version. I don't have any plans to add categories though, because I like to have lots of pictures showing as soon as the gallery is loaded. This is one reason why I hate PhotoPost (other reasons include the price tag and the useless file information shown below each picture).

[colicab-d]

yeah i was told u had to be running safe mode for photopost but i think thats bs.. ah well im just gonna pay a overgrow and hell help me lol

[N!ck]

Today at 09:18 AM Mist said this in Post #2
Only thing i don't like so far is that there is not an a-z listing up the top.

Not anymore. http://www.v-driveboat.com/gallery.php

[colicab-d]

lol nice one if youre releasing it i,ll beta test it on my graphics/design site

does it use the thumbnailing in threads like overgrows?

also how hard would it be to show or add commenting?

[N!ck]

Actually, I just disabled attachments for most forums so I wouldn't have to mess with integrating it. My members just link to the photos in their photo gallery when they need to. Mine is not nearly as sophisticated as Overgrow's, but for me I believe that it's simply less potential problems.

I don't have any plans to publicly release it because on the frontend it's very similar to Overgrow's gallery, and he asked me specifically not to share his. Furthermore, image-related vBulletin addons and hacks tend not to work on every server, so one gets a flood of questions.

Commenting is another thing that I will not add, but I do have a reason (and it's not just because I'm lazy). If I add commenting, my members will start using it like a forum (asking questions about each other's boats and such), and rude people could leave unkind and unwelcome comments. If someone really wants comments on their photos, they can link to them on the forums as far as I'm concerned.