Coppermine Random Photos on vBulletin FORUMHOME (easy)

[AcidX]

This is basicaly the easiest way to have random photos from your Coppermine Gallery displayed on your vBulletin home page.
Tested and working perfectly. Here's the installation process containing only 3 steps.

Requirements : Coppermine Photo Gallery Installed.



Installation steps :

1. Download coppermine.php and edit the database info. After you're done, upload it in your forum root.


2. Open your vBulletin index.php file and under require_once('./global.php'); add the following line:


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(save the changes > upload the file in the forum root)


3. Open your Style Manager ("Styles & Templates" in the AdminCP menu) and edit the FORUMHOME template.
Depending on where you want your random pictures to appear, you should paste this code eather under $navbar or <!-- end what's going on box -->.
The code you need to paste is:


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(Save the template.)



All done.
I know you like it - http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/images/smoothblue/buttons/installed.gif (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/vborg_miscactions.php?do=installhack&threadid=124398) ;)

Here's the live demo (http://forum.kajgana.com/) and some screenshots:

[hgb]

my logo is just like here....top and to the left.... how would i put the pics to the right of the logo and and will it work with 3.6 ?

thx

[Selene]

Hi,

great hack. Installed!

and yes it works fully with 3.6.0 as im running it there.

Just a question, what if i want to display those random pics code under forumnav, but on ALL FORUMS not just FORUMHOME, then which template should i modify

[Selene]

another question:

what if i want to open the thumbnail pics in a "new" window ? which lines do i modify in coppermine.php for that

[Barakat]

works great ............. thanks a lot for that love it ...

[DjTaz]

Hi,

great hack. Installed!

and yes it works fully with 3.6.0 as im running it there.

Just a question, what if i want to display those random pics code under forumnav, but on ALL FORUMS not just FORUMHOME, then which template should i modify

If you want this hack to work on all the areas , just put the code into NAVBAR instead of FORUMHOME at the very bottom - that should do the trick for you.

:D

[AcidX]

another question:

what if i want to open the thumbnail pics in a "new" window ? which lines do i modify in coppermine.php for that
Thanks for installing.
If you want to open the pics in a new window, just open the coppermine.php file, find the line:
$copphotos.='<td><a target = "_parent"

and replace it with:
$copphotos.='<td><a target = "_blank"

That should do the trick ;)

[DjTaz]

OOPS - I MAY HAVE MISREAD THE QUESTION HERE - I THOUGHT YOU WANTED TO OPEN THE THUMBNAILS INSTEAD OF THE PHOTO , SORRY ... WELL THIS IS HOW THAT IS DONE ANYWAY :sanother question:

what if i want to open the thumbnail pics in a "new" window ? which lines do i modify in coppermine.php for that


Im not sure why you would want to do this , and i checked the codes on it - the amount of recoding would be huge if you wanted to make the thumbnail display instead of the image since coppermine isnt even set up to show a single thumbnail on its own.

That being said ... if you change some of the code in coppermine.php from this :
Find


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and change to



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it should bring you to that users thumbnail page instead of to the photo itself

[AcidX]

Indeed.
You got two resonable answers and modifications - I hope you got what you were asking for ;)

[Konstantinos]

why the thumbnails in forum home are much smaller than the thumbs in coppermine home and how to fix this ?

[Konstantinos]

i found a bug. it displays thumbs for uploaded pics that ARENT approved yet by the admin. any fix ?

[AcidX]

i found a bug. it displays thumbs for uploaded pics that ARENT approved yet by the admin. any fix ?Are you sure about this?

[DjTaz]

Yes they are sure - the coppermine.php script isnt set to check for approvals , it just randomly checks all the files. Luckily i have a fix for that if you wish

change the code in coppermine.php line 27 from


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to



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and your in business again with only approved photos showing.

Anyone with VBadvanced , you can get the module for it here : http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=119432

[AcidX]

Bug fixed. Thanks Tazie! ;)

I replaced the coppermine.php file. Everyone that installed this mod can download the new version now.

[Martin-TMGRS]

Does anyone know how to port this for VB3.6.3 ?? I've tried to put this on my forum and get this error.

Table 'db149830456.thread' doesn't exist
Warning: mysql_fetch_array(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /index.php(64) : eval()'d code on line 746

Warning: mysql_fetch_array(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /homepages/46/d101530151/htdocs/mkportal/include/VB/vb_out.php on line 42

Warning: mysql_fetch_array(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /homepages/46/d101530151/htdocs/mkportal/include/mk_mySQL.php on line 57

Warning: mysql_fetch_array(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /homepages/46/d101530151/htdocs/mkportal/include/mk_mySQL.php on line 57

Warning: mysql_fetch_array(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /homepages/46/d101530151/htdocs/mkportal/include/mk_mySQL.php on line 57

Any ideas please and thanks in advance

[DjTaz]

Martin - only spotted this now - where exactly did you put this , and where does that error appear ? Is coppermine running ok on its own ?

A little more info is required to get this going please...

[Xbizcafe]

why the thumbnails in forum home are much smaller than the thumbs in coppermine home and how to fix this ?

I have same question. Who can help us ?

[DjTaz]

I have same question. Who can help us ?



in the line that says


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of coppermine.php change the height=60 to the height you want- you get bigger or smaller

[Soliloquy]

I've installed this (thanks!) and it runs fine, but I'd love to get it to display in the left hand column (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=117988). Any chance of that?

[DjTaz]

just paste the code into the right hand column tempate instead of forumhome and do the rest the same.

You want a <br> in somewhere to drop it down a line each time , but i dont have that hack so im not sure

[Soliloquy]

I tried that DjTaz, it just won't load. Worked fine in forumhome though.

[tandy]

Is it possible to display the user pictures instead of random pictures

[DjTaz]

Yes , its possible to display just the users gallery if you want that - i have that done in the members profiles when you go to a members profile page near the bottom.

http://www.theotherzone.com/member.php?u=1 is something like what you want ??

Or do you want a that persons gallery to display on the page when they enter ? The problem i see with that is no one gets to see anyone elses gallery, which defeats the purpose of it

[tandy]

Yes , its possible to display just the users gallery if you want that - i have that done in the members profiles when you go to a members profile page near the bottom.

http://www.theotherzone.com/member.php?u=1 is something like what you want ??
That's exactly what i need.

Or do you want a that persons gallery to display on the page when they enter ? The problem i see with that is no one gets to see anyone elses gallery, which defeats the purpose of it

This one i do it and we can see the others gallery too.

[Hengest]

Hi, thanks for this mod, but I am having a problem.

I have edited the coppermine.php file with the following and uploaded to forum root. My coppermine folder is called photoalbum and is in the ame location as my forum folder.



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I have edited and uploaded the index.php file as follows:



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And finally I copied and pasted the code provided into the forumhome template just below $navbar.

When I try to return to my forum I get a blank page with the message "Unable to connect to the database server at this time."

I am assuming that this is because there is an error with either the hostname, db login or db password. I copied and pasted the login and password directly from the MySQL admin panel provided by my host so I am assuming the problem is with hostname.

Any suggestions would be appreciated please.

[DjTaz]

is the prefix correct ?

[Hengest]

Hmm, well I changed it and now at least I can get into the forum with no error message and I see the table below the navbar with "Gallery" in the top left corner but no images appear.

Thanks

[DjTaz]

You still looking to port this to 3.6.3 or have you moved up a level since ? Im only going back over the old threads now :S

[andres28]

Hi,

im not really good at coding.. but I want all my random pictures to display on a Ajax page
can you please help me modify this code.

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and I need to integrate this code into the one on top.



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Thank you.
Andres Carvajal
http://www.simplementetodo.com

[BAJR]

Has anyone updated this for 4.0 at all :)

[BAJR]

I am taking it this is a no.. :)
I don't get the changes... and not being at all php literate... I am out of my comfort zone