Major Additions - Video-Directory Remixed

This mod has been rewritten for vB4x here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=240677

This modification is based on the Video-Directory modification by Survivor and vBPoint.org.
His mod is NOT dead, its still alive and kicking; but he has informed me that he just doesn't have the time to maintain it and give support. So until he is able to work on it agian; I've been doing a series of updates.

What is this mod?

This mod adds a fully featured and fully integrated video directory archive to your forums. Users can add their favorite videos from their favorite video service to the directory. I only support a few select hosters; but the hoster scripting is XML base, so any user can create their own scripts for any number of hosting services. The old MyVideo and Sevenload scripts from Survivor's version will still work, but they wont pull in Keyword/Tagging information, nor the video length time codes.

Basic Feature Listing:

• Fully integrated into the vBulletin user database and product manager.
• Fully phrased and built on templates for easy reskinning and styling.
• Fully administratable and a myriad of settings for personalization.
• Complete customization of permissions based on usergroups.
• Landing page for broad information and fully featured tag cloud.
• Category profiles for videos.
• Contribution profiles for users.
• Keyword profiles for tag cloud.
• Built in comment system for videos.
• Search function for titles and descriptions.
• RSS feed of videos.

Product Demo:

http://www.8wayrun.com/video.php

Installation Procedure:

1. Upload all files in the "upload" directory to your forum root.
2. CHMOD /videothumbnails/* and /includes/videoserviceapi to 777.
3. Import the product "product-videodirectory.xml" in your Product Manager.
4. Follow the on screen instructions to configure your video hoster settings.
5. Refresh your administration control panel to see the new navigation links.

NOTES:
vBulletin 3.7.0 instituted a new avatar-thumbnail system. There is a high probability that you are unaware of this new system and may have failed to setup your vBulletin to make use of it. Make sure that a directory called /thumbs is located in your avatar directory and CHMOD it to 777. Then go into Maintenance > Update Counters and run the Rebuild Custom Avatar Thumbnails process.

Upgrade Procedure:

1. Upload all files in the "upload" directory to your forum root.
2. Take note of the information stored in Limits of Videos > General Settings.
3. Import the product "product-videodirectory.xml" in your Product Manager.
4. Re-establish your previous Limits settings in Videos > General Settings.
5. Re-import ALL of your hosters and settings in Videos > Manage hosters.
   • You MUST remember to re-import your hosters after upgrading.

NOTES:
You may lose your category dataman when you upgrade. If no categories are listed after an upgrade, you will be required to rebuild your category dataman. Its very easy to rebuild it if you need to. Simply go into Videos > Manage categories, select ANY category and hit [Edit], then click [Save]. Your category dataman will automatically be rebuilt.

Roadmap for the Future:

• Moderation
• Favorites
• Playlists

Don't forget to click INSTALL!

If you want to donate, I'm all for it... as I'm an unemployed computer programmer...

[Jaxel]

Originally Posted by MagicThemeParks

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?

The one-wide/two-wide thing isn't a setting anymore. I'm using the UL LI method for display, so its controlled by the width of the actual item. If you decrease the width of the item, more than one will display per row.

[Jaxel]

Okay... I've rewritten all the pages to be more suited for smaller fixed width skins.

[EquinoxWorld]

Thank you Jaxel for the awesome work, your making great headway with this mod. One thing I wanted to point out it would be sweet if we can have the category alphabetized and not forced priority. For my example I have Japanese anime videos and we have over 400+ category's and growing. Also it would be alot of help to be able to have the option to arrange the videos in alphabetical/numerical order. Also I agree with the previous post saying about the report video and thread creation, it's a great way to make members aware of the most recent videos and series updates . All in all it looks great , can't wait to see the end result.

[Veer]

Originally Posted by Jaxel

Okay... I've rewritten all the pages to be more suited for smaller fixed width skins.

Thanks Jaxel, its pretty good now, and what about the sidebar?

[david01130]

Hey Jaxel, thanks for updating the mod to Vb4. Im sure once I upgrade to Vb4 Ill be using this mod as well. I am currently using Vb3 and I am having trouble posting comments to videos. It seems to be a problem with the vbseo rewrite rules. When I delete some of them, the comments temporarily work then disappear. Here are my rewrite rules. Do you know how to fix this. I appreciate it.

//Video-Directory
'^video\.php\?do=viewrecent'=>'videos/recent-videos.html'
'^video\.php\?do=viewtag&tag=(.*)'=>'tags/$1/'


'^video\.php\?do=viewcategory&categoryid=(\d+)&categorytitle=(.*)&sort=dateline&order=DESC&page=(\d+)'=>'videos/$2-$1/page-$3/'
'^video\.php\?do=viewdetails&categoryid=(\d+)&categorytitle=(.*)&videoid=(\d+)&videotitle=(.*)'=>'videos/$2-$1/$4-$3.html'
'^video\.php\?do=viewcategory&categoryid=(\d+)&categorytitle=(.*)&page=(\d+)'=>'technique/$2-$1/$3/'
'^video\.php\?do=viewcategory&categoryid=(\d+)&categorytitle=(.*)'=>'videos/$2-$1/'
'^video\.php'=>'videos/'

[Jaxel]

I wont be providing anymore support for the VB3 version...

If you guys want to see what the submission form is going to look like, just scroll to the bottom and click submit:
http://test.8wayrun.com/media.php

Right now it supports YouTube, Vimeo, MetaCafe and DailyMotion...

[MagicThemeParks]

Originally Posted by david01130

Hey Jaxel, thanks for updating the mod to Vb4. Im sure once I upgrade to Vb4 Ill be using this mod as well. I am currently using Vb3 and I am having trouble posting comments to videos. It seems to be a problem with the vbseo rewrite rules. When I delete some of them, the comments temporarily work then disappear. Here are my rewrite rules. Do you know how to fix this. I appreciate it.

//Video-Directory
'^video\.php\?do=viewrecent'=>'videos/recent-videos.html'
'^video\.php\?do=viewtag&tag=(.*)'=>'tags/$1/'


'^video\.php\?do=viewcategory&categoryid=(\d+)&categorytitle=(.*)&sort=dateline&order=DESC&page=(\d+)'=>'videos/$2-$1/page-$3/'
'^video\.php\?do=viewdetails&categoryid=(\d+)&categorytitle=(.*)&videoid=(\d+)&videotitle=(.*)'=>'videos/$2-$1/$4-$3.html'
'^video\.php\?do=viewcategory&categoryid=(\d+)&categorytitle=(.*)&page=(\d+)'=>'technique/$2-$1/$3/'
'^video\.php\?do=viewcategory&categoryid=(\d+)&categorytitle=(.*)'=>'videos/$2-$1/'
'^video\.php'=>'videos/'

Try here on the vBSEO site: http://www.vbseo.com/f23/video-direc...ix-crrs-38663/

Originally Posted by Jaxel

I wont be providing anymore support for the VB3 version...

If you guys want to see what the submission form is going to look like, just scroll to the bottom and click submit:
http://test.8wayrun.com/media.php

Right now it supports YouTube, Vimeo, MetaCafe and DailyMotion...

Lookin' good Jaxel! Very smooth :up:

[Katelynn]

Jaxel .. I will be happy if it works with vB 4.0 I'll take it any way you can give it .. looking forward to it!

Cheers!

[Cybershaolin]

Was this a reply for me?

Originally Posted by Jaxel

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...

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" />

regarding this:

Originally Posted by Cybershaolin

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.

The problem is I don't know anything about coding or whatever you said about hosters. What I know, is that many users here made the same request than me in the past. I also have made personal inquiries to many coders here and nobody wants to touch it so i guess it's not that esay.

Originally Posted by Jaxel

I wont be providing anymore support for the VB3 version...

This is so sad to hear.

This will lead me to use another solution since I don't plan to upgrade to 4.X, but thanks anyway for your great hack. I"m just disappointed that I did not have all definitions (and since I don't have any knowledge, there is nothing I can do) as for other available hacks. The reason which made me keeping this one was the fact of having a separate directory... so if it can gives ideas to other people...

[david01130]

Originally Posted by MagicThemeParks

Try here on the vBSEO site: http://www.vbseo.com/f23/video-direc...ix-crrs-38663/



Lookin' good Jaxel! Very smooth :up:

thanks those somewhat worked. I had to adjust them a little. I can post comments now but cannot delete them. When I try to delete them it redirects me to: http://mysite.com/#comments which shows my homepage. Is it suppose to redirect to /#comments?