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links in navbar don't work w/ rewrite module enabled. you can enable them, but then need to 'hardcode' the links in your navbar templates and do one phrase adjustment. it's still 'dynamic' as the encoding involves vB variables and not your actual url... but a change none the less! see #41 in this thread:

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an update!

i'm running a nightly build (from June 2nd) w/ core: 0.9.22

this includes the new url rewrite module - which works!

i had to hardcode some links though as the gallery url rewrite takes over the vB relative links.

so i had to make the relative links 'static' in 1 template and hard code a phrase too...

the phrase i had to edit was:
private_messages_nav

from:

Code:

<a href="private.php?{3}">Private Messages</a>: {1}, {2}.

to:

Code:

<a href="http://www.domain.com/private.php?{3}">Private Messages</a>: {1}, {2}.

the template i had to edit was: navbar

and i changed all links that looked like:

Code:

<a href="profile.php?$session[sessionurl]do=editprofile">

to:

Code:

<a href="$vboptions[bburl]/profile.php?$session[sessionurl]do=editprofile">

basically added:

Code:

$vboptions[bburl]/

in front of all of the links in that page that actually go somewhere. (not the # links) there's like 20 of 'em.

you can also do random blocks and such. i'm not sure the cleanest way to do it... i've done it on our site, but it uses vbadvanced. basically, look in the gallery site admin under:
Blocks -> Random/Popular

and note the 'External Image Block' section.

at some point in yer code, you need to call a php variable to get yer random block. since we cannot do this directly from templates, we have to do it in one of the .php files and then reference the variable which introduces a level of difficulty. for instance, as that page indicates, the code:

Code:

<?php @readfile('http://www.cvreefers.org/gallery2.php?g2_view=imageblock.External&g2_blocks=randomImage&g2_show=owner'); ?>

will generate a random image. as you cannot call php from our templates, i kinda kludged this together w/ vbadvanced's help.

you can then get real jiggy w/ it by calling those links in yer postbit (or postbit_legacy in our case) to produce things like each users latest album or each users random pic.

an example is here, note beneath the posters' avatar:
http://www.cvreefers.org/index.php?t=2614

however, each time u look up a random pic, i get a delay on a p4 3.06 w/ 1 gig of ram. so if u have 10 users browsing 17 posts w/ 10 random pic genreators at once... well... u get the idea. actually read that thread if you want to see the outcome...

so - i'm using a cron job and a hidden field to do the tricks on that page.

i hesitate to mention those above tricks because i know the first thing that's going to be asked is 'how did you do this?' and it's pretty entailed. to get the user's gallery links beneath each user involves naming an album identicle to that user, creating two hidden user profile fields, and setting up a cron job. for the daily random block, another hidden user profile field, and another cron job. i really doubt that i'm doing it 'the right way' nor the most eloquant nor the most effecient way. heck, i'm establishing my own mysql connection on those cron jobs and i'm sure i could mooch off of vB's connection if i researched how, heh! so i just wanted to show that it can be done if that makes sence! i'm sure someone more advanced then i could make it generically fit any vB install.

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can you put a 'user's gallery' link near the users' posts? yup, see post #65 in this thread:

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this is on vB 3.0.x

havn't moved to 3.5 yet.

this will add a link beneath the post count of the user.

however it might not work for your situation. all of my members' galleries are their vB username.

like my username is: whodah
my gallery name is: whodah

i have a user named: nifty_guy
his gallery name is: nifty_guy

u get the idea

i have a cron job that runs nightly (u can run it as often as u want of course) that checks usernames against g2 entities of the same name that are albums. if it exists, it populates a custom field in vB. if that field exists, a link to their album shows up in their posts.

so - u might have to tweak this accordingly, i'm not posting this as a cookie-cutter solution. but should getcha goin!



there are no file modifications with this. there is one file [i]addition[/b]. the rest can be done from the admin control panel.

this involves:

1. adding a user custom field
2. adding a Scheduled Task (adding a file and adding the task in vB's admin page)
3. modifying one postbit template

1: adding a user custom field
in your admin pages, go to: User Profile Fields -> Add New User Profile Field

call it wahtever you want. i titled mine:
Title: Gallery
Description: Does this user have a gallery in CVR_Members? If so, what's the name of the gallery?

you need ot make:
Field Editable by User: No

the rest you can fill out however you want. note the field number it assigns it. if you need to review it, click:
User Profile Fields -> User Profile Field Manager

and the 'Name' column is what you need to make a note of. in my case, it's: field10

2: adding a Scheduled Task
create the file:
includes/cron/gallery_field10.php

(yes, u can name the file whatever you want, just make a note of it)

**note: in the file right below this, replace 'field10' with your field number!

and in it add:

Code:

<?php  
    $whodiag = 0;
		$whomysqlstring = "SELECT * FROM user;";
		if($whodiag) {echo "<BR>line ".__LINE__.": whomysqlstring = $whomysqlstring<BR>"; }
		$results = mysql_query($whomysqlstring) or die ("Error: line ".__LINE__.": $whomysqlstring<BR>");
  	while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($results)) {
  				$whomysqlstring = "SELECT * FROM g2_FileSystemEntity WHERE g_pathComponent='".$row[username]."';";
					if($whodiag) {echo "<BR>line ".__LINE__.": whomysqlstring = $whomysqlstring<BR>"; }
					$results2 = mysql_query($whomysqlstring) or die ("Error: line ".__LINE__.": $whomysqlstring<BR>");
					if(mysql_numrows($results2)) { 
									if($whodiag) {echo "<BR>line ".__LINE__.": Found an album for ".$row[username]."<BR>"; }
									while ($row2 = mysql_fetch_array($results2)) {
  											$whomysqlstring = "UPDATE userfield SET `field10` = '".$row2[g_pathComponent]."' WHERE userid = '".$row[userid]."';";
												if($whodiag) {echo "<BR>line ".__LINE__.": whomysqlstring = $whomysqlstring<BR>"; }
  			  							mysql_query($whomysqlstring) or die ("Error: line ".__LINE__.": $whomysqlstring<BR>");
									}
					}
		}		
?>

go to: Scheduled Tasks -> Add New Scheduled Task
call it:
Title: Gallery Profile Updater
Filename: ./includes/cron/gallery_field10.php
(unless u used a different Filename above... if so, change accordingly)
and run it as often as u want. i run mine nightly. thus if a new user gets a gallery, it won't reflect on their posts til the next day. so for mine, everything is a star except Hour which is:
Hour: 2

after yer done, go ahead and 'Run Now' it.

3: modifying one postbit template
ok, if yer in legacy mode, yer using:
postbit_legacy
if not, it's probably
postbit
(someone correct me if i'm wrong)

so - edit the template yer using. for me, it's postbit_legacy.

in postbit or postbit_legacy (we use legacy), find:

Code:

<div>
					$vbphrase[posts]: $post[posts]
				</div>

below it add:

Code:

				<if condition="$post['field10']">
						<div>
    						<a href="$vboptions[bburl]/v/CVR_members/$post[field10]/">$post[musername]'s Gallery</a>
								<if condition="$blockinfo['whodahuserrandompic']">
        								 <!--  -->
        								 <BR>Their Daily Random Pic:<BR>$post[field14]
    						</if>
						</div>
				</if>

and now u'll get a nifty little link below their posts saying:
whodah's gallery

or

nifty_guy's gallery

ggs!

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does it work in 3.5.x as a NON-plugin? yup, if you read through this post, you'll find tidbits here and there on what it takes to get it to work in 3.5.x

does it work in 3.5.x as a plugin? nope, not yet. nobody has coded it as a plugin as of this edit's date.