vb.org Archive - Major Additions - Video-Directory Remixed

Okay... been on and off programming all day... This is the status right now...

Home Page design done... I made the entire display script modular, so putting in sections for highest rated and most popular videos is extremely easy to do. Because of the modular nature of the display script, the category, and user pages are also done. The tag pages will also be very easy to implement the same way. All these pages use the same exact templates, its only the code-behind thats different.

I'm having a hard time understand the whole datamanager system, so I don't know if I'll be using it. The whole datamanager system was implemented with the original author, and he never implemented the VF_METHOD stuff correctly, so it really didn't do anything.

On the agenda:
video submission
video moderation
video editing
comment system
tagging system
rating system
search system

I don't think I will be re-implementing the video reporting function... It really served no purpose. As well, I will not be re-implementing the auto-thread creation function either; with the new sidebar module system, there really isn't a need.

Do you guys think I need to put a sidebar back in? With the new navtab system in VB4, I don't know if a sidebar is essential anymore.

MagicThemeParks

03-29-2010 11:04 AM

The auto-thread creation and video reporting functions were great. Especially the auto-thread function. If it's possible, please keep working at it! :D

The auto-thread creation helped spark some good conversations about the videos and got folks interacting on the site.

I like the layout of the homepage. Do you have options to go three wide versus two wide on the layout? This way there are more videos per row showing?

Digital Jedi

03-29-2010 04:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jaxel (Post 2012093)

You had mentioned something, oh, quite a while back about making the hosters easier to create. I'll be doing an updated definitions set for AME 3 pretty soon. Will you be able to make the definitions compatible with the next Directory? At the very least, some similarity in the XML files might make a basic find & replace method workable. I've looked at the hosting files before and it just didn't seem possible to convert the defs without a significant amount of trial and error.

Veer	03-29-2010 05:56 PM

Hi Jaxel

Thank you for taking the directory to next level.

The new layout is awesome, I will not mind if you remove the report system and auto thread system but please do not leave the sidebar area, navbar links under the tabs are not so noticeable, sidebar looks always awesome. A confusing thing is 1280 width, most of my users have 1024 width monitors, please take care of it.

thank you and good luck :)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jaxel (Post 2011959)

Don't worry, I'll put an option in to place it underneath, instead of to the right.

I'm optimizing the DEFAULT settings for 1280 width monitors.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jaxel (Post 2012093)

Cybershaolin

03-29-2010 07:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi (Post 2012342)

This would be awesome to get as many hosters for Video Directory Remixed than for AME! I'm sure I'm not alone waiting to get this possibility. This is the only thing missing in this great hack, more video hosters. The're not easy to understand or create.

Jaxel

03-29-2010 07:25 PM

Hosters are being DATABASE driven, instead of XML file driven now. Below is the database construct and the YouTube example. Since its being database driven, if you wanted to merge it with AME, I don't see how it would be a problem. Just extract the service name, the regex code and link it directly to the embed code. Of course, you wouldn't have the url to feed, or the feed to variables...

Code:

serviceID        = primary key                = 1

svcName                = service name                = YouTube

svcRegex        = regex matching         = http:\/\/[a-z]*?[\.]?youtube\.[a-z]*?\/watch\?v=([A-Z0-9._%-]*)

svcFeed                = url to feed                = http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/{serviceVAL}

svcThumb        = feed to thumb                = $arr['media:group']['media:thumbnail'][0]['url']

svcTitle        = feed to title                = $arr['media:group']['media:description']['value']

svcDesc                = feed to desc                = $arr['media:group']['media:title']['value']

svcLength        = feed to length        = $arr['media:group']['media:keywords']

svcTags                = feed to tags                = $arr['media:group']['yt:duration']['seconds']

svcURL                = souurce url                = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v={serviceVAL}

svcEmbed        = embed code                = <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/{serviceVAL}&autoplay=1&fs=1&rel=0&hd=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385" />

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