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...

[ArnyVee]

Someone just asked about the Google videos. You can search this mod for "google" and find a few posts about it. Here are two of them....

#401 - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=401

#402 - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=402

.... good luck! :up:

[Tragamin]

Is there any way to add YouTube Playlists support to my gallery? It would be awesome to be able to play them since Google Video is not an option and it was the only website where long videos were allowed...

ArnyVee, thank you so much for pointing that out. I did search, and I don't know how I missed that one - it works like a charm!

[mariocaz]

Jaxel or ArnyVee,

I enabled the option that automatically creat a thread/topic in a certain subforum that I choosed of my forum when someone upload a new video in the videor directory But is not working.

I have to do something else to enable this option ?? because I really want it.

Thank you for all your support in this.

Mario

[ArnyVee]

Mario, I haven't started to use that option yet actually. Where do you find those options?

Usually you have to place the forum id of the forum that you'd like the new thread to appear in as well as the user id of the user you'd like it to display the thread from.

[romolus]

Hy,

how can i install the videomodul ( newest videos ) on startpage from the cmps vbadvanced ?

Thanks

[mariocaz]

Originally Posted by ArnyVee

Mario, I haven't started to use that option yet actually. Where do you find those options?

Usually you have to place the forum id of the forum that you'd like the new thread to appear in as well as the user id of the user you'd like it to display the thread from.

That option is in the General Settings of the Mod in the ACP

No, only you have to select the Forum that you want from a list.

No Forum ID and NO user ID, I think the user that appears that open the topic is the user that upload the video in the video directory.

Check it and tell me.

Mario

[l_amhed]

Maybe I'm wrong but the only option I have is : Report-Forum - Forum, in which a topic for every reported video is created.

Which means that a thread will be created if someone report a bad video but not when someone add a video.

And to sum up some problems I have with this hack:

1- On the 'recently added video' page all the videos appear even the ones that come from a private category.

I fixed this one by changing in video.php :

// Recent Videos
if ($_REQUEST['do'] == 'viewrecent')
{
	$videos = $db->query_read("
		SELECT video.*, user.*, IF(NOT ISNULL(user.userid), user.username, video.username) AS username, IF(video.ratingnum > 0, video.ratingtotal / video.ratingnum, 0) AS ratingavg
		FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "video AS video
		LEFT JOIN " . TABLE_PREFIX . "user AS user ON(user.userid = video.userid)
		ORDER BY dateline DESC
		LIMIT " . $vbulletin->options['videodirectory_videosperpage'] . "
	");

BY:

// Recent Videos
if ($_REQUEST['do'] == 'viewrecent')
{
	$videos = $db->query_read("
		SELECT video.*, user.*, IF(NOT ISNULL(user.userid), user.username, video.username) AS username, IF(video.ratingnum > 0, video.ratingtotal / video.ratingnum, 0) AS ratingavg
		FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "video AS video
		LEFT JOIN " . TABLE_PREFIX . "user AS user ON(user.userid = video.userid)
		WHERE video.videocategoryid IN(" . implode(',', $allowedcats) . ")
		ORDER BY dateline DESC
		LIMIT " . $vbulletin->options['videodirectory_videosperpage'] . "
	");

2- Same goes for the video block on the profile page
3- I don't know if it's something normal, but tags added for private videos appear also in the tag cloud.
4- The RSS feed doesn't work either

See you.

[mariocaz]

Here you can see what I am talking about:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...7&d=1231204782

The option that is not working is the "Report Forum" option, I selected the forum but nothing happens in that forum when someone upload a video in the video directory.

How can I fix this ?

[mariocaz]

Ohhh I understand I amhed!! the report forum is only for the videos reported (bad videos), I hope someone confirm this to us.

So it will be awesome to have the option to open automatically a thread in a specific forum when someone upload a video in the directory video. This for the next version of the Mod.

[snoopy5]

Where is the RSS Feed?

On page 23 of 56 pages it was asked where to find the RSS Feed to show the videos via RSS on a site outside of vb.

No answer to this yet and I can not find it neither. I have all codes enabled in ACP (URL, BB, HTML etc.)

Can ANYBODY help here?