MyGallery: a responsive image gallery for MyBB

[Laird]

MyGallery is a responsive image gallery plugin for MyBB, battle-tested on a high-traffic board with many thousands of gallery images.

Price:

$50 AUD per site (note the Australian dollars; discounts for multiple sites are negotiable).

Payment methods:

PayPal or bank transfer.

Contact methods:

See here. When contacting me, mention your intended use and your contractual commitment to non-objectionable use (see below).

Licence:

The standard EULA.

Conditions of purchase:

Non-objectionable intended use and commitment to ongoing non-objectionable use. Examples of objectionable use:

• Non-consensual sexual imagery.
  
• Images glorifying violence or crime.
  
• Images promoting animal exploitation including animal agriculture.
  

Copyright:

All code copyright me and non-distributable, with all rights reserved, except for that of the bundled Highslide library, which is MIT-licensed.

Technical requirements / compatibility:

• MyBB 1.8.x (untested for smaller values of x).
  
• PHP 7 or 8 (potentially untested on very early versions of PHP 7; might work with PHP 5).
  
• MySQL/MariaDB (PostgreSQL and SQLite not supported).
  

Will refund if MyGallery unexpectedly does not work on your setup.

Additional functionality:

Ask if you want me to add functionality for a fee (I can provide a detailed, free, no-obligation quote for more extensive work).

Paradigmatic use case:

A community of artists sharing their images with one another in collectively-curated image galleries and ❤ing and commenting on one another's images.

Demo:

Gallery of all images

Gallery screenshot:

Features:

• Responsive design (to best test the responsive design, select the Roundo Light theme bottom of page).
  
• Multi-gallery support:
  
  • Authorised admins can create/edit galleries and their settings in the ACP at Configuration » Gallery Management.
    
  • A galleries index, at galleries.php (bare-bones but customisable page listing all galleries the member is authorised to view).
    
• Per-gallery options:
  
  • Separate usergroup permissions for:
    
    • Posting images.
      
    • Viewing images.
      
    • Posting comments.
      
  • Optional auto-blurring (for unauthorised usergroups). Alternatively, an error message can be displayed.
    
  • Optional auto-watermarking:
    
    • Customisable watermark image.
      
    • Customisable vertical location of watermark: top, middle, or bottom.
      
  • Customisable codename, for user-friendly URLs (the special codename "main" shows images from all (authorised/blurred) galleries).
    
  • Categories list (so as to tag images in one or more categories on upload).
    
  • Optional pop-up of gallery images using the Highslide library on clicking an image, otherwise, clicking an image leads to its own page.
    
  • Auto-import settings:
    
    • Forums list. When a new thread is posted in one of those forums (so long as the forum wasn't also specified in an earlier gallery), all images (enclosed in `img` MyCode tags) in the first post in that thread (if any) are auto-imported into the gallery, unless the posting member unchecks the "Import Image" checkbox (to test this feature on this board for the default gallery, post a new thread in the Sandbox forum).
      
    • Domain blacklist: prevents images from matching domains from being auto-imported.
      
    • Optionally, use original thread for comments.
      
    • Optionally, hide first post when doing so (useful when imported images are blurred for unauthorised viewing members, and the comments should not reveal those imported images).
      
    • Thank You/Like System plugin (TYL) integration: optionally, use the TYLs of the first post in the original thread for the image's likes.
      
• Gallery display (see above screenshot):
  
  • Accessible at gallery.php?codename=[codename] (see, e.g., this board's default gallery at gallery.php?codename=default).
    
  • Paginated at 12 images per page.
    
  • Filterable by categories.
    
• Per-image features:
  
  • Title.
    
  • Optional caption.
    
  • "Liking" of images, with optional Thank You/Like System plugin (TYL) integration (see per-gallery settings above).
    
• Image page (see below screenshot):
  
  • Supports commenting by authorised usergroups.
    
  • Supports comment editing and deleting by author and admins.
    
• Member profile:
  
  • Image upload count ("Show all" links to gallery view of all images posted by that member in all galleries authorised for viewing by the viewing member).
    
• Image auto-import features:
  
  • Multi-image display (i.e., when the first post of an auto-import thread contains multiple images):
    
    • Gallery view: shows only the first image, but with an image count icon; clicking the icon leads to the image page.
      
    • Image page: shows the first image full size, with thumbnails for the remaining images (example here). Clicking on a thumbnail pops up the full-sized image in the Highslide viewer.
      
  • Auto-categorisation: based on (case-sensitive) matching of words in the import thread.
    
  • Auto-import admin tool: auto-imports all images that haven't yet been imported in the stipulated forum(s).
    
• Visual configurability:
  
  • Fully templated.
    
  • Templates are customisable per gallery.
    
  • Customisable stylesheet.
    
• A sensibly designed breadcrumb system which shows when filtering by category and/or posting member.
  

Current limitations:

• Animation in GIFs/PNGs is not supported when watermarking and when generating thumbnails: those images become static.
  
• No listing of categories on each gallery page from which to choose to filter by; can only filter by clicking on the category of an existing image.
  
• Alerts and email notifications not supported, neither for (1) notification of new images posted to a gallery, nor (2) notification of new comments on a gallery image, nor for any other event.
  
• Etc.
  

[Laird]

Feature-set and limitations updated in the original post to correspond with the latest version.

[Laird]

Feature-set again updated to correspond with the latest version (installed on this demo board).