UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 6 V6 Modifications Forum Design Integration Photo Gallery / Album

We would like to integrate a photo album /gallery into our threads. Currently users post pics as attachments, but to view them, you've got to go through each message.

What I'm looking to do...or potentially hire someone to do is create a gallery, with thumbnail images where you can browse photos, click the thumbnail and see the full sized version. We also want user pic uploads to be fully moderated. Working in something similar to this: http://www.rjmall.com/gallery/

There's also a program we can buy called PhotoPost at http://www.scriptsearch.com/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=4253
it uses MySQL and says you can integrate it with phpBB User Database. That brings up the key issue. If I install a separate program, then users have to create user IDs and passwords there (what a confusing pain).
I would love to have a solution that could be made to work from the UBBThreads database of users etc.

We would like these galleries to have restricted access to only certain groups in our UBBThreads.

Anyone have any idea of plug in's that work with the user Database of users and groups...or know of anyone capable of doing this?

Keslin has a gallery system that would probably work for you, based on the forum software. I dont know if she will be willing to sell or share the code, ask her. Initially she was going to share it with us, but I guess she didnt had time. Warning: adult content at her site.

But maybe you will be able to find someone who can do a completely different gallery system based on ubbthreads. Will be interested in how it goes. []https://www.ubbdev.com/threads/php/images/icons/wink.gif[/]

Here's a small hack that will allow you to view attachments in line if they have a specific extention.

In your showflat and showthreaded scripts just above echo statement where the $Body of the post is printed add this:

if ($user['U_Username']) {
if (eregi("\.GIF|\.JPG|\.PNG", $File)) {
echo "<IMG SRC="$config[fileurl]/$File" Border="0">";
}
}

Hope this helps... I'd try explaining more but those scripts are so hacked up it's not funny... I'll try taking a look at a fresh script and explain where this goes later tonight []https://www.ubbdev.com/threads/php/images/icons/smile.gif[/]

Thanks Dave -
That should come in real handy in the meantime.

I couldn't quite figure out where to place it though. Tried several places (above an echo $Body), a couple didn't work.
I had it working, but it was in the space with the title...then moved it a bit and got an error.

Still have lots to learn. If anyone can tell me under which section to put it, I'd appreciate it.

Oh - MTO, do you know how to contact Keslin? Her username is deleted here. []https://www.ubbdev.com/threads/php/images/icons/frown.gif[/]

Thanks!

I'll try and get some locations posted on a clean set of scripts tonight. I'm looking at them right now. []https://www.ubbdev.com/threads/php/images/icons/smile.gif[/]

If I get a chance I'll look for some GPL gallery scripts and see if I can modify one to use the forum's authentication. (don't hold your breath on this one... lol it's on my list but not at the top) []https://www.ubbdev.com/threads/php/images/icons/wink.gif[/]

Well I think I may have figured it out on my own. I'm not a programmer, but I printed it all out, and tried to follow the logic.
In the last occurance of "If there is a poll in the post..." I made the section that began with "echo" look like this:

echo "
</td></tr></table></td></tr>
<tr><td width=83% class="lighttable">
<br><P class="post">
$Body <br>
";
if ($user['U_Username']) {
if (eregi("\.GIF|\.JPG|\.PNG", $File)) {
echo "<IMG SRC="$config[fileurl]/$File" Border="0">";
}
}

echo "

$Signature
$PrintLastEdit
<p class=small>{$ubbt_lang['POST_OPT']}
<a target="_blank" href="{$config['phpurl']}/printthread.php?Cat=$Cat&Board=$Board&main=$Number&type=post"><img align=absmiddle alt="{$ubbt_lang['PRINT_POST']}" src="{$config['images']}/print.gif" border=0></a>
";




This made the attachment appear after the Body, but before the signature.

So far all still seem OK. I haven't crashed it all out yet. []https://www.ubbdev.com/threads/php/images/icons/wink.gif[/]
Thanks!

Looks like a great start! []https://www.ubbdev.com/threads/php/images/icons/wink.gif[/]

Here's a text file that should help if you want the image to be placed in front of the body.

Woups! Username deleted! That´s why I had some trouble finding her posts! Haha, didnt notice.
Try contacting her uhm... at her webpage, I guess. []https://www.ubbdev.com/threads/php/images/icons/crazy.gif[/] Keslin´s web page, WARNING: adult content.

Something like this?

http://www.chattersonline.com/test/index.php?Cat=&paction=pictureview

[]/forum/images/icons/smile.gif[/]

Looks cool Dave! Is that gonna be part of the next index page?

Does it actually create the thumbnail image? What if the picture is full screen? []/forum/images/icons/smile.gif[/]

Thumbs will be the harder part creating this. I think I can create some sort of script to read the attachment directory and create thumbs of any image that's possible to do so for and store them in a "thumbs" directory. Then when displaying the images it would look to see if the thumb existed for the image and if not it would display a default "thumb not found" image? LoL way to much for me to be thinking about right now...

You're doing GREAT work Dave!!!!

I read it somewhere else... but InfoPop does need to hire you. []/forum/images/icons/smile.gif[/]

I have a copy of 'gallery' installed. I love this script and its future is promising. But, It would be a good candidate for ubbt integration.

http://gallery.menalto.com/

sP

I liked it too.... it was simple and easy to use.

There are some other threads on the subject..... but there is now a product available called PhotoPost www.photopost.com which does fully integrate with Threads.

I've been using various versions of it for several months and it works like a charm. Michael Pierce, the developer has done some great things here to even take the integration a step further.

You might wish to check it out.
Let me know if you've got any questions as to how it integrates.

How well does PP work for other media formats like video and audio?

Thanks.
sP

The new version (3.1) which is in RC1 right now and is due out final this week supports video formats. Not sure about audio at this time.

Reading the message boards over there and it seems it supports just about any media with some minor mods to the code. Cool, Michael thought ahead about this in writing PP.
I think I will buy it and play around.

sP

obviously some time has passed since you wrote this message.

Photopost indeed natively supports the UBBT user database along with a few other board scripts.

it looks very nice.

Yeah, and there are some great mods available to more closely integrate it into threads.