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...

[SnowBot]

Sorry thick question moment here....LOL

How much BW will this use or is it using the source BW?

[ArnyVee]

Originally Posted by ArnyVee

Wow, you are THE man Jaxel! :up:

So, now we have individual RSS feeds per categories, users and tags!? Quick question...how do we determine what the URL is for a particular category RSS feed?

Any issue going from 1.1.6 or 1.1.7 straight to 1.1.9?

Jaxel, any word on these?

By the way, which links were 'broken' with Surviver's mod? I can't remember.

[Jaxel]

Originally Posted by ArnyVee

Jaxel, any word on these?

By the way, which links were 'broken' with Surviver's mod? I can't remember.

Your browser should have an orange RSS dropdown list with available feeds. Go to the category/tag/user you want, and the feed will be on the list.

The actual link to the video itself was broken. It was using & instead of &

[ArnyVee]

Thank you Jaxel!

:: Arny smacks himself in the head for not realizing the RSS dropdown list thing ::

[SnowBot]

Can we have an english button?

[aseer_al7ob]

Hello Jaxel

Can you add this site to the list of sites hoster

http://clipat.maktoob.com/

Thank you

[chikkoo]

Originally Posted by SnowBot

Can we have an english button?

I have already asked this before. Seems no one has made yet.

Also is that BB Code produced is working for every1? For me not working.

[chikkoo]

Jaxel,

I appreciate the updates are coming very fast now a days, keep it up buddy.

Is it possible to have the below features in your next update?

1) Option to Display & Hide Video URL, BB Code & Embed Code. (I don't want to show them to all)

2) Option to exclude categories from related video, random video and best rated video.

3) Reported Videos to have a flag or different background color or some distinctive mark, so that admin can easily locate that video.

People are reporting some videos are removed by the Hostor, but still appearing in everywhere, that doesn't make sense to keep in the main directory.

[SnowBot]

A good site to add as its HUGE is www.facebook.com

[Adam21]

I have a request which i think will be useful to all - Have inline deletion of videos. Its abit of hassle to delete them one by one if some of the videos are removed from the hosters.I'm currently using phpmyadmin to delete them.Hope an improvement that allows us to delete the thumbs as well with an inline option.