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...

[Zarxrax]

There is a bug in the youtube module which prevents some videos from working.

Here is an example video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lxakVAaAJY

Youtube displays the following embed code:

<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_lxakVAaAJY&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed>

However video directory remixed displays the following embed code:

<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_lxakVAaAJY&autoplay=1&fs=1&rel=0&ap=%2526fmt=18" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385" wmode="transparent"></embed>

If I visit the actual url from the video directory's embed code, then as expected, the video does not play. This url is http://www.youtube.com/v/_lxakVAaAJY...ap=%2526fmt=18

However, if you look at the end of the url, you will see &ap=%2526fmt=18
Now I don't know what this is supposed to be... but if I change that part to &fmt=18
then everything works fine.

[c.c.]

Why is the New Video called "Neues Video"? Is there a gif that has New Video in english?

[c.c.]

Is anyone that is using Firefox not able to view the videos. I have a user that just shows the spinning dial. It won't load for them, but if they go directly to youtube.com it loads fine? Any ideas? His IE8 works fine.

[Al-Mothafar]

Originally Posted by c.c.

Is anyone that is using Firefox not able to view the videos. I have a user that just shows the spinning dial. It won't load for them, but if they go directly to youtube.com it loads fine? Any ideas? His IE8 works fine.

Sometimes happened to me and I am using FF3 ..
its not depend on browser , i guess its from youtube service , and I note sometimes take some time to start load video (app. about 10 - 15 sec.) .

[c.c.]

Originally Posted by Al-Mothafar

Sometimes happened to me and I am using FF3 ..
its not depend on browser , i guess its from youtube service , and I note sometimes take some time to start load video (app. about 10 - 15 sec.) .

He figured it out. He reinstalled Flash and it works fine.

[Vital Signs]

We installed everything properly using 3.8.2 and it displays on the navbar, however when we click the link in the navbar to go to the "Video Directory" it says

you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:

1. Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
2. If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.

How do we fix this? Are forums are currently turned off since the site hasn't launched yet however we are all Admins so it should still sow up for us. Any ideas what to check? Thanks

[compact123]

Sir,

i'm upgrade 123 to 124 but i have this error;

[dbirosel]

What changed from the new update? U didn't tell us what's fixed, new, removed from the mod?

[alessai]

Hello, i found a bug in megavideo.....

there is a new feature in megaupload... that if u upload a video file it will automatically upload it to megavideo,,, and i noticed any video was uploaded through megaupload ... cant be added....

[CypherSTL]

Alright, seen a few of you asking for this, and I wanted something like this as well for an Off-Road 4x4 Forum I'm working on.

To add a "View My Videos" link to your postbit, only if the user has videos, here is the following template, and plugin.

View My Video's Link:
TEMPLATE
--------
Title: video_postbit

Template Code:

<!-- show vid link -->
<div>
<br>
<a href="video.php?do=viewuser&userid=$post[userid]">View My Videos</a><br />
</div>
<!-- /show vid link -->

PLUGIN
------
Name: Video Directory - Display Video Link in Profile
Hook Location: postbit_display_start
Execution Order: 5

Plugin PHP Code:

if ((THIS_SCRIPT == 'showpost') OR (THIS_SCRIPT == 'private') OR (THIS_SCRIPT == 'showthread') OR (THIS_SCRIPT == 'announcement') OR (THIS_SCRIPT == 'newreply'))
{
    global $db, $vbulletin;
    {
        if (THIS_SCRIPT == 'private')
        {
            $this->post['userid'] =& $post['fromuserid'];
        }
            $alluservideos =  $db->query_read("
                SELECT *
                FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "video 
                WHERE (userid = ".$this->post['userid'].")
                ");

            $db->num_rows($alluservideos);

            if ($db->num_rows($alluservideos) > 0)
            {
                eval('$template_hook[\'postbit_userinfo_right\'] .= "' . fetch_template('video_postbit') . '";');
            }
                $db->free_result($alluservideos);
    }
}

Navigation Link Suggestion:
Since the link is added to the navigation bar via plug-ins and some people have vbAdvanced, or another form of CMS/Portal page, this edit for that plugin will automatically add the Forum URL to the link.

Plug-In Name: Navbar-Link
Product: Video-Directory

if ($vbulletin->options['videodirectory_navbarlink_hook'] == 1)
{
    $template_hook['navbar_buttons_left'] .= '<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="'.$vbulletin->options['bburl'].'/video.php'.$session['sessionurl'].'">'.$vbphrase['video_directory'].'</a></td>';
}

if ($vbulletin->options['videodirectory_navbarlink_hook'] == 2)
{
    $template_hook['navbar_quick_links_menu_pos1'] .= '<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="'.$vbulletin->options['bburl'].'/video.php'.$session['sessionurl'].'">'.$vbphrase['video_directory'].'</a></td></tr>';
}

if ($vbulletin->options['videodirectory_navbarlink_hook'] == 3)
{
    $template_hook['navbar_community_menu_end'] .= '<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="'.$vbulletin->options['bburl'].'/video.php'.$session['sessionurl'].'">'.$vbphrase['video_directory'].'</a></td></tr>';
}

Jaxel, feel free to add these to the mod if you would like.