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...

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by Cybershaolin

Was this a reply for me?


regarding this:


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.

Actually, I think he was directing that at me, since I had originally asked.

[Jaxel]

I think you guys are gonna like a lot of the changes I've made so far...

There is no longer an "Add Video" button. Instead, the navbar has a drop down list for submitting media, so you can go directly to the submission form. These links hold a category ID in the URL, so when you click on the link, it will automatically select the appropriate category. In addition, there is now a small submission form at the bottom of almost every page, the main page, category pages, tag pages and user pages; it does not display on watch or edit pages. If you're on a category page, it will automatically select the appropriate category again. I know on my forums, getting people to put videos into the correct category was the hardest part. Having it this way will also prevent people from adding media, without first retrieving the information from the server. Which of course, was another problem on my forums... For a lot of users I ended up having to manually edit their videos to put in minutes and seconds because they never clicked the retrieve info button.

Right now media submission forms and tag edit forms (no ajax yet) are working.

[Jaxel]

By popular demand, I am making it so the subset for "most popular media", is calculated based on the number of COMMENTS, not the number of VIEWS.

[Jaxel]

Anyone out there able to give me a hand?

I'm trying to put a sidebar into the mod, but I'm having problems getting it to work...

Problem explained in this thread: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=236334

[amitash]

How to change the size of the videos??

[Riccardo83]

Great work Jaxel, when do u think u can publish a Beta Version for vB4?

[Jaxel]

I don't really do betas... VDM had problems because I was building on someone else's code, which was foreign to my methodology. I tend to work backwards from other programmers. So I usually don't have situations where things are a "work in progress". Either a feature works, or its completely missing. I've been working nonstop for a few days on this mod, so I'll be taking a break tomorrow... Status of things right now are very good.

Right now most of the AJAX functions for the mod are done; the comment system, rating system and submission system all rely on AJAX. The AJAX functions can also fall back onto standard form posting if a user doesn't have javascript, or the administrator disables AJAX functions. The comment system is working great, so we shouldn't have the problems we had with VDR. The editing of the title, tags and description of a video are NOT AJAX driven.

Right now there are ZERO permission settings on my beta site; I wanted to make sure the main functions worked first before I started working on the permissions. So if you want to try things out on the test site, feel free... but you'll be submitting as a guest. But you can do any administrative function currently programmed in, such as editing details and comments.

Remaining on the Agenda...

SIDEBAR
Search
Reporting
Submission Moderation
Comment Moderation
Comment AJAX Editing
Usergroup Permissions
Style Variables
Product Packaging

Is there a need for me to do category permissions like in VDR?

And I'm unemployed again... so donations would be greatly appreciated!

[Veer]

Great work Jaxel, thumbs up!

So your making a brand new product of "Video Directory Remixed" called "Media Library" right?

[amitash]

This is a great module.. I wanna know how i can change the size of the videos!?? Please help

[Jaxel]

Originally Posted by Veer

Great work Jaxel, thumbs up!

So your making a brand new product of "Video Directory Remixed" called "Media Library" right?

I don't know if thats what I'm gonna finally call it. I'm trying to think up a name. Video Directory is Surviver's mod, since I am no longer using his codebase, it would be wrong of me to continue calling it that.