New Posting Features - VB AnyMedia Player / Media Sites (youtube, google and many more)

Goldbrick Media system for vBulletin 3.6.x

Thanks to all who nominated or voted this for MOTM.

Some of you might be looking for Anymedia. Well this has replaced it. It's a total rewrite from the ground up. A huge thanks goes to Sir Adrian for creating the framework. He can't cook soup but he sure can code.

Why the name goldbrck?

From Wikipedia:

Goldbricking, in today's terms, generally refers to staff who use their work internet access for personal reasons while maintaining the appearance of working.

From Urban Dictionary:

Goldbricking: To loaf or goof around on the job. Supposedly an old union term describing laborers (or more specifically, bricklayers) who were going so slow, it was as if each brick were made of solid gold. One can alse be referred to as a "goldbricker".

Dude, I spent all day at work goldbricking - surfing the web, making long distance phone calls - basically just picking my ass.

Goldbrick uses the following third party Products:

• Highslide Javascript. I've packaged it with the 3.1 download. Please read the license agreement on highlide's website. In short it's free for non-commercial use. http://vikjavev.no/highslide/
• - - -
• The media player and mp3 player are from http://www.jeroenwijering.com/

What's new in Goldbrick?

• Complete code overhaul.
• Plays most media types.
• Forum admins can add their own video sites
• Updated Highslide.js
• Attachment Images work with Goldbrick
• Don't need to use BBCODE
• Auto Phrases URL's
• Media Options per post
• Much more on the way!

Goldbrick's Requirements:

• Vbulletin :P
• PHP 5

Goldbrick Version 1.5:
- Fixed Vbadvanced integration
- Fixed extensions permissions checking
- Added pickup of old [media] tags
- More code changes for later features

Goldbrick Version 1.4:
- Fixed Apple trailers
- Added Added Viemo videos
- More code changes for later features

Goldbrick Version 1.3:
- Fixed Images
- Fixed MP3's
- Fixed Myspace, now supports myspacetv.com
- Added Increase or decrease video size for the classic player (testebr gets the credit for this one)
- Added Added ESPN videos
- Added Veoh video site.

Goldbrick Version 1.2:
- Added Videos for Profiles for vbulletin 3.7
- Added Classic Skin
- Added Vblog Support
- Added Vbadvanced Support
- Fixed Attachments
- Rewrote some of the code


Planned Features:

- Youtube like interface
- Video Comments
- Media Tags
- Media Searching


Please report any issues or suggestions.

[nix]

Ya.

[iogames]

Originally Posted by ninjamaster

so i dont need to change anthing is the host needs to ?

Well
I've upgraded to PHP5 a few hiccups & tons of lost work-hours, but I'm back on the track
altough I'm not fan of upgrading, is a necessary step on the near future

p.s. I'm re-paying for upgrade of 2 scripts

[TTG]

I've just installed and don't really want to read 89 pages on how to get youtube working. When I add a youtube link and select "Use goldbrick media options", all it does is wrap [url] links around it !?

[DDIG]

It does *nothing*. Installed it, uploaded goldbrick, includes and players to my forum directory, imported the product, set forum and user permissions properly, and.... nothing.

Each link is just shown as a link. No player, no playing, just a link, nothing else happens.

PHP5, MySQL5, vBulletin 3.6.8PL2

Installation instruction are:
1. Upload the contents of the "upload" folder
2. Import the product_goldbrick.xml file
3. Set up Usergroup Permissions
4. Set up Forum Permissions
5. Set up Goldbrick Options

1. Done that (uploaded to "forum" dir)
2. Done that.
3. Done that.
4. Done that.
5. Done that. It should play the media file automatically.

Tried it with an MP3, and with an swf file.

The swf file plays nicely when I put the URL directly in my browser URL box.

[nix]

do you have vbseo installed?

[DDIG]

Yes, I have. Not the full prod., just the sitemap generator

[DDIG]

When uninstalling the product, it displays this error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_OBJECT_OPERATOR in ...forums\admincp\plugin.php(1497) : eval()'d code on line 1

[nix]

Originally Posted by DDIG

Yes, I have. Not the full prod., just the sitemap generator

Do you have any mod that changes the urls? If not, just post a link like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMH0bHeiRNg

no tags or anything.

If you want to pm me the url to your forum I'll take a look at it.

Originally Posted by DDIG

When uninstalling the product, it displays this error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_OBJECT_OPERATOR in ...forums\admincp\plugin.php(1497) : eval()'d code on line 1

That is fixed in the next version.

[JohnBee]

Sometimes it works... Sometimes it don't
This MOD is a bit perplexing. Sometimes it works without a hitch, other times, threads will not display thumbnails or... handle content properly. The latter occurs even if I edit and resave content.

Along the same note, why is it that whenever we edit a thread or post, the Goldbrick option is never available?

[nix]

Cause its in Beta and I'm adding features as I go. If you find problems PM me a link so I can look at it. It's hard to find bugs on my test site when it usually works as advertised. But I like to see it on live boards for finding the hidden bugs.