Public Media Gallery Module

[Throwam]

This is something that I feel would be a defining feature if it were added, and I would encourage the vBulletin staff to seriously consider it. A gallery module where users can upload, upvote, and comment on pictures, much like the Media Gallery of Xenforo (https://xenforo.com/help/media-gallery/), only it functions as a module and can be placed on any page with SiteBuilder. There should also be a filter for NSFW images, and tabs to sort the images by most popular (daily refresh) or latest.

DragonByte-tech create a plugin for this with vB4, and it was one of their most downloaded pieces of software. (https://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/stor...nbyte-gallery/) I feel that implementation of such a module, as soon as possible, would be a highly beneficial feature for vB5, as it currently lacks a function which many other forum software have pre-built into the template.

[IggyP]

yes album/gallery has manyyyy issues right now, im asking for it pretty constantly for years im hoping it wont take too much longer....even to just fix what they have in there now so would be so amazing...

images need to be easy to use in cross published content and it needs to be intuitive....no more "you need 2 browser windows open" or "read this complicated instructional about how to manage your images" that doesnt fly these days at all...

then they need to fix the major issues asap, like can only use images from the first 60 images and from the first 10 albums??? thats incredible that ppl havent risen into outrage about it by now, i really dont understand...

seems like last version is alot of rtl stuff and regression fixes....rtl doesnt really effect me but i know its a big deal for alot of ppl...and regression fixes are always good to see, but maybe next version??? or dam...just hope it doesnt get pushed back to 5.3 or something...............

[Anja Volder]

6 years later and I still agree on this suggestion. A gallery much similar to the old Photopost would be great!

[Wayne Luke]

A gallery much similar to the old Photopost would be great!

You will need to be more specific. No one here knows what Photopost was like, how it operated, or what features that you want from it. There are already several ways to make galleries within vBulletin. So being more specific on what you want would help a lot. The lack of specifics is why this suggestion hasn't been acted on in six years.

You can create public Gallery channels by:

In the admin going to Channel Management → Channel Permissions.
Click on "Quick Channel Permission" at the top of the page.
Choose your channel and select all the usergroups that should be able to post there.
Scroll down towards the bottom and setting the Can Create Photo and Can Create Gallery options to Yes.
Set all other Can Create to No.
Then on the front-end go to Site Builder.
Visit the channel and click "Edit Page."
Click Save Page.
Set "Overwrite Template" to No
Enter a template name like "Gallery Channel."
Save the page.
Edit the page again.
Edit the Channel Display Module.
For the tabs, drag "Photos" to the top.
Set the default tab to "Photos"
Save the Module.
Save the page.

You can control how many photos users can upload per topic in the Channel Permissions above.
You can control how many images show in their post under Attachments → Attachment Options.
You can control image sizes like icon, thumbnail, small, medium, large under Attachments → Attachment Options.
When images are uploaded as a Gallery post, the user can specify a title and description for every image. These are shown in the lightbox display when you click on an image.

Would love to hear suggestions on improving this existing functionality.

[Anja Volder]

You will need to be more specific. No one here knows what Photopost was like, how it operated, or what features that you want from it. There are already several ways to make galleries within vBulletin. So being more specific on what you want would help a lot. The lack of specifics is why this suggestion hasn't been acted on in six years.

neither do I. I was just using it. It was bridged with VB. I can provide the software, if you can read the php, then you will understand photopost. I also have a few screenshots of my photopost gallery.

[Wayne Luke]

What I have seen of Photo Post reminds me of this - https://forum.vbulletin.com/member/868-wayne-luke/media

[Anja Volder]

Yes, that's probably PP 8 Gold. The general gallery is missing in this version. A general gallery is very important, especially for photographers. It's gives a better overview of the latest uploads. Have a look at the attachment.

[Wayne Luke]

Since Photo Galleries are actually topics in vBulletin, you can build a page to show the latest photo based topics and user albums using the standard search module. It is missing the thumbnails if you view by topic though.

1. Create a new page on your site.
2. Add a Page Title module.
3. Add a search module.
4. In the search module set the content type to Photos.
   • You can save the page now and it will show all images in a list and takes a lot of space.
   • If you set the search module to show topics, it will show a topic list of all photo content but no thumbnails.

What most people will probably want is a "Card" view. You can see this by looking at my link above. I've created a feature request to get that view… Whether it ends up a completely customized version of the search module (i.e. latest events or the content slider module) that can be dragged and dropped on a location is hard to say. It could just become the an option in the default search module.

VBV-21264 - Add "Public Albums" module.

[Anja Volder]

Why not have a look at the software of photopost? It has so many useful features for both users as wel as admin. Too much to mention. Just a small example: It has the possibility to search photo's posted the last day, last 7 days, last 14 days or all the posted photos. That's so very much convenient! I provide it to you for free. I don't want anything in return but an useful, extended gallery. You can even develop it as an add on if you like.
I can't imagine there would be a legal problem using parts of photopost because it doesn't exist anymore but I'm not familiar with the American law.

[Wayne Luke]

We don't look at other software like that because of copyright laws. Every time someone says "Do it like this software," it is almost a guarantee that it won't be added or it will get bogged down in legal review. Plus as far as I am aware, Photopost is no longer available.

Just a small example: It has the possibility to search photo's posted the last day, last 7 days, last 14 days or all the posted photos.

You can search photos within vBulletin Photo Galleries right now as well. Every image added to a Photo Gallery topic can have a title and description added that is fully searchable in the system. Albums created by a user on their profile are just Photo Gallery topics with a different view. This has been a feature since 5.0.0.

[Anja Volder]

Okay I understand. Thank you so far. So I need to provide more features if I want them. I'll get back to in 2023. First I need to translate everything in Dutch and figure a few things out before I can tell you the features that would help.

[Anja Volder]

BTW, I'm not suggesting to copy photopost. All I'm asking is to have a look at the features and you'll know what I, and maybe more, am wishing for in a gallery. As you asked me to tell you so.
Like having contests and voting. beside regular activity, open and close discussions, sticky photo, setting measurements and file sizes for thumbnails and photo's. exposure exif, making photos favorite. etc.

[Anja Volder]

You will need to be more specific. No one here knows what Photopost was like, how it operated, or what features that you want from it. There are already several ways to make galleries within vBulletin. So being more specific on what you want would help a lot. The lack of specifics is why this suggestion hasn't been acted on in six years.
Would love to hear suggestions on improving this existing functionality.

Here are some suggestions:
-EXIF data
-Anonymous Voting for contests
-A gallery overview with thumbnails of all loaded photos like 25 per page or something.
-The ability of closing comments on photos (when things get out of control) (only by admin and moderator)
-Make photos sticky and unsticky (only by admin and moderator)
-Hide photos before decide photo to stay or delete (only by admin and moderator)
-Make photos favorite and unfavorite
-The ability of attach improved photos in a commentfield
-The ability of uploading series of max 3, 5 or 7 photos
-Information fields by admin to ad , for example: what location was the photo made, What editing did the photographer do etc. or whatever the admin wants to use it for.
-Change owner (only done by admin)
-Report photo
-report comment
-Maximum number of photos to be uploaded by usergroup (only in adminsettings) and categories (example: 3 photos for contest in one month - Admin can fill in any number)
-credits (each comment wil earn a number of credits en credits can be used to upload photos) Settings by admin. (first two (or whatever the admin wants) photos can be uploaded for free)
-Maximum uploads per usergroups in 24 hours (admin settings)
-A space in top of the site to show winner photos or other that admin is proud of.
-The possibility the software is sizing photos while uploading into a number of pixels and file size given by admin in admin settings.
- in admin settings: at least and max pixels and file size.
- follow and unfollow photographers
-Under thumbnail: date of uploading, number of comments, name photographer and title of photo also shown near the photo when opened.
-adding smileys in comments
-A sidebar (that can be toggled left or right, on all pages of the gallery or just the mainpage of the gallery) for advertising, hyperlinks and featured photos created by Admin.
-Anonymous editing by admin and moderator in commentfields.
- sub categories must be hidden in de main category. To klick an arrow the subcategories will be open and can be closed by klicking the arrow again.

Will this help?

[Wayne Luke]

I don't think you understand the modularity of vBulletin 5 with some of the things in your list. A good proportion of what you want to do can already be done and has been possible for the life of vBulletin 5. What you get when you download is merely a rendition of the basic software and an approximation of what was provided in vBulletin 4.X. Every single page can be altered and customized by the Administrator.

The following exist in vBulletin 5.7.0 currently -

- There are already provisions for EXIF data retention in the software. This requires a flag in the /core/includes/config.php file.
- There is already "Gallery Overviews" using the Photos tab on every topic.
- Admins/Moderators can close Photo Gallery topics.
- Admins/Moderators can mark a Photo Gallery Topic as sticky.
- Since Photo Galleries are topics, they are subject to every single thing you can do with moderation on a topic. Open/Close, Stick/Unstick, Feature, Move, Copy, Approve/Unapprove, Edit, Rename, Remove attachments, etc…
- Admins can allow only photo galleries in any channel.
- Admins can control how many images are uploaded to any single Photo Gallery Topic.
- Photo Gallery Posts can be reported.
- Any page on the site can be edited to add a left or right sidebar (or both). These side bars can contain any module including advertising, hyperlinks, searches, etcs… Featured photos can already be highlighted using the Content Slider menu but I am trying to get a "Photo Search Module" added as well.
- Admins can already edit comments and determine if they are anonymous or not.
- Most BBCode (including Smileys) already works in Comments. What doesn't work are the @ (user) and # (node) shorthand codes and emoji lookup codes. Though on a vBulletin 5 using UTF8MB4, any emoji entered via an emoji keyboard should work in comments.
- Users or admins can add titles and descriptions to any photo in a Photo Gallery topic.

We do have an issue open to add the ability to comment on individual photos.

Contest requests are going to be tricky though since everyone will want different things and we would need to develop something that satisfies most customers. This can make systems very complicated.

Will take all of your comments under suggestion though.

[Anja Volder]

"Will take all of your comments under suggestion though."

Great! Thank you so much!

[Anja Volder]

Offcourse I don't understand. I am not a php developer. I am just a User with whises that already (have) excist in other software but does not fit in with vBulletin. But since i payed a lot of money for it and since photopost was bridged with vBulletin in the first place, I am very spoiled.

It's only because the php of photopost (7.2) does nog match with the php of the host (7.4) I can't use it anymore.

BTW: Can't find this one "Edit the Channel Display Module."It's not there so I got stuck in the process