Importing vbulletin Albums to vBGallery

Neutral Singh · December 2nd, 2008, 09:22 PM

Is it possible to import photos to vBGallery from the default vbulletin albums facility?

Chuck S · December 2nd, 2008, 10:11 PM

Sorry there is no such import that we know of.

Lars T · December 26th, 2008, 07:51 PM

Is there another way to get photos from vbilletin to VBgallery (when all pictures are stored in the db)

I tried this: Move billeder into the file system with direct access to thumbnails

But got this: Your server has PHP's SAFE_MODE enabled. You cannot move attachments to files while SAFE_MODE is enabled. Please contact your host and ask them to consider disabling it if you wish to use the file system for attachments.

Chuck S · December 26th, 2008, 10:00 PM

You can ask vbulletin about their software attachments etc and safe mode.

Only way to get photos into vbgallery is to actually upload them.

Luciano · December 28th, 2008, 06:28 AM

Well not the ONLY,
you could fetch them from database convert them to a GD2 image and save in your files directory.. then pretend they have been uploaded.. and then send them through the upload routine.. but.. it would be a big hog on server..
moving them would give you some performance issues.. unless you have a dedicated server..
And it would be a BIIIG script to write.. for something you only use once..

Luc
PS: why dont you use both?? I for instance hacked vb albums to be private only.. so user can show some pictures to his buddies only.. and upload to gallery when he wants to show the world!

Chuck S · December 28th, 2008, 08:07 AM

Uploading them using the upload routine whether through bulk upload by processing files in some folder or one at a time it still is using the upload routine. It is the only way because there is no script that exists to import content from the vb album thing to vbgallery which is what this thread asked.

Regs · May 19th, 2009, 05:16 PM

Where is the new import script for doing this (as mentioned in the 2.5 announcement email)?

Michael P · May 19th, 2009, 06:17 PM

admincp/importalbums.php - writing up something on it now to post.

Regs · May 19th, 2009, 06:24 PM

Excellent.

I have some more questions about this feature but will wait for your upcoming post.

Cheers,

Regs.

Michael P · May 19th, 2009, 06:45 PM

Just posted: http://www.photopost.com/forum/vbgal...vbgallery.html

Glad to answer any questions you might have.

Olli2k · June 5th, 2010, 11:04 PM

Is there anyway to import the albums from vB4 to vBGallery3 ?

fluentdesigns · July 9th, 2010, 08:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Olli2k

Is there anyway to import the albums from vB4 to vBGallery3 ?

I would also like to know if there is a tool in development.

Luciano · July 10th, 2010, 12:53 AM

There will be in future but not as part of vbgallery. It will certainly be a 3rd party hack.
but I think nobody will start working on such a thing, until vbgallery is gold.
(As vbgallery RC1 is going to be out soon, I guess wait will not be very long)
Luc

0ptima · July 12th, 2010, 10:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Luciano

There will be in future but not as part of vbgallery. It will certainly be a 3rd party hack.
but I think nobody will start working on such a thing, until vbgallery is gold.
(As vbgallery RC1 is going to be out soon, I guess wait will not be very long)
Luc

I though this feature already existed in vbg 2.5?
Why PhotoPost vBGallery Photo Gallery for vBulletin Forum Sites?

Luciano · July 12th, 2010, 11:03 PM

nope it is an additional script.. (found in do not upload)

but the problem is that in vbulletin 4 album pictures are now treated in a completely different way. They are now nothing else than attachments.. and are not in a seperate table anymore.

(btw in vbulletin 4 the settings are still very confusing and are bound to change: in vb4 you still have extra setting for albums like move albums to filesystem, use thumbs in filesystem etc.. they are obsolete and are not used anymore. I read somewhere at vbcom that they were leftovers but might be activated again or not) ...

As to the link, that was for vbgallery 2.5
There will be an importer script (looked into it) but i would like it to be a little different from the 2.5 version.

The 2.5 version of the script creates a category for each vbalbum and places it under the member category of the user. fine.
but if you have a big board with 10000 users (thats not big, lets say medium size), and half the users have albums (5000) that would give you 5000 new categories in the category dropdown. In my opinion that would be a no-go. I have not come up with a better solution than just import to normal member categories (without the album information, or pass the album information to image description or something else)

Luc

BUT for the moment priority is to getting gold out, the importer will be next.

0ptima · July 13th, 2010, 06:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Luciano

nope it is an additional script.. (found in do not upload)

but the problem is that in vbulletin 4 album pictures are now treated in a completely different way. They are now nothing else than attachments.. and are not in a seperate table anymore.

I see, was not aware of that.

Quote:

I have not come up with a better solution than just import to normal member categories (without the album information, or pass the album information to image description or something else)

If I had the time, I would try integrating vbgallery with VBs attachment system.

Luciano · July 13th, 2010, 09:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 0ptima

If I had the time, I would try integrating vbgallery with VBs attachment system.

If I had time I would write a new gallery looooooool