Constants

[Steff]

Just looking through the plugins after having problems integrating CMS pages with Vbgallery I noticed that the constants in Vbgallery were:
VB_AREA == 'vBGallery'

Rather than that I was expecting:
VB_AREA == 'forum'

what was the reason for the change and is there a way around this please.

[Chuck S]

Hello not sure where your looking into plugins but that constrant basically tells those plugins only to execute when on vbgallery pages.

Any and all plugins included in our product should be coded accordingly. I am not aware of any CMS block contained in our vbgallery beta product.

Feel free to ask in the beta forum on that particular software to ask what features it may or may not have concerning the vb4 CMS product.

[Steff]

I wasn't wrapping vb4 cms I was wrapping Vbadvanced. But the way I understood the constants was to check if vbgallery was in admin or not. So just wondered why vbgallerry was called and not forum and if I can change it back to forum.

[Chuck S]

You can not change our plugins they are designed to operate as they are coded.

I suppose you could ask how to show vbgallery in vbadvanced in THE MOD CORNER which is where one would discuss modifications outside our normal programs operation. vbAdvanced is another product which we make no claims to intergrate or show content in.

[Steff]

Ok fair enough!

[Luciano]

Chuck is correct.. the constant VB_AREA == 'vBGallery' is needed to tell the system that we are NOT in forums but in gallery.. This is Important as on most systems vbgallery is NOT installed inside the forum directory.
Easiest example..:
if VB_AREA == 'vBGallery' (if we are on a vbgallery page)
==> Highlight the Gallery tab..

if you want to have something on both, forum and gallery pages you can always do:
if(VB_AREA == 'vBGallery' OR VB_AREA == 'forum')
{

}

[Steff]

Originally Posted by Luciano

Chuck is correct.. the constant VB_AREA == 'vBGallery' is needed to tell the system that we are NOT in forums but in gallery.. This is Important as on most systems vbgallery is NOT installed inside the forum directory.
Easiest example..:
if VB_AREA == 'vBGallery' (if we are on a vbgallery page)
==> Highlight the Gallery tab..

if you want to have something on both, forum and gallery pages you can always do:
if(VB_AREA == 'vBGallery' OR VB_AREA == 'forum')
{

}

That is very useful, thank you very much indeed. I'll try that out later on today and let you know if it worked.

[Steff]

I had a chance to try it out and it worked ... but if I tried to enter the admincp I got a PHP error.

[Luciano]

well i suppose you get the error when you had to login..because when you login you shortly (during redirection) have the login.php that has VB_AREA == 'forum' while the admincp has VB_AREA == 'AdminCP'. IMHO, I think, this has nothing to do with vbgallery.
You should get the error also if you only had:
if(VB_AREA == 'forum')
{

}
so I would test without the vbgallery part.. if it runs then just add OR VB_AREA == 'vBGallery'

Thats all i can say, as I never used vbadvanced and do not know how they do their check.

[Steff]

That's ok. It would have been nice to integrate Vbadvanced with VBgallery, but its not the end of the world.
I can see why this is happening and that was one of the reasons I asked about the constant's change.
You gave a a good shot... so thanks for trying anyway