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...

[Jaxel]

Refresh it and see how it looks now...

[MagicThemeParks]

Jaxel, looks beautiful on my monitor. But, again, it might be too wide for fixed skins.

[Jaxel]

Don't worry, I'll put an option in to place it underneath, instead of to the right.

I'm optimizing the DEFAULT settings for 1280 width monitors.

[MagicThemeParks]

An option to place underneath would be awesome. Tight work so far! :up:

[Jaxel]

Okay... been on and off programming all day... This is the status right now...

Home Page design done... I made the entire display script modular, so putting in sections for highest rated and most popular videos is extremely easy to do. Because of the modular nature of the display script, the category, and user pages are also done. The tag pages will also be very easy to implement the same way. All these pages use the same exact templates, its only the code-behind thats different.

I'm having a hard time understand the whole datamanager system, so I don't know if I'll be using it. The whole datamanager system was implemented with the original author, and he never implemented the VF_METHOD stuff correctly, so it really didn't do anything.

On the agenda:
video submission
video moderation
video editing
comment system
tagging system
rating system
search system

I don't think I will be re-implementing the video reporting function... It really served no purpose. As well, I will not be re-implementing the auto-thread creation function either; with the new sidebar module system, there really isn't a need.

Do you guys think I need to put a sidebar back in? With the new navtab system in VB4, I don't know if a sidebar is essential anymore.

[MagicThemeParks]

The auto-thread creation and video reporting functions were great. Especially the auto-thread function. If it's possible, please keep working at it!

The auto-thread creation helped spark some good conversations about the videos and got folks interacting on the site.

I like the layout of the homepage. Do you have options to go three wide versus two wide on the layout? This way there are more videos per row showing?

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by Jaxel

Okay... been on and off programming all day... This is the status right now...

Home Page design done... I made the entire display script modular, so putting in sections for highest rated and most popular videos is extremely easy to do. Because of the modular nature of the display script, the category, and user pages are also done. The tag pages will also be very easy to implement the same way. All these pages use the same exact templates, its only the code-behind thats different.

I'm having a hard time understand the whole datamanager system, so I don't know if I'll be using it. The whole datamanager system was implemented with the original author, and he never implemented the VF_METHOD stuff correctly, so it really didn't do anything.

On the agenda:
video submission
video moderation
video editing
comment system
tagging system
rating system
search system

I don't think I will be re-implementing the video reporting function... It really served no purpose. As well, I will not be re-implementing the auto-thread creation function either; with the new sidebar module system, there really isn't a need.

Do you guys think I need to put a sidebar back in? With the new navtab system in VB4, I don't know if a sidebar is essential anymore.

You had mentioned something, oh, quite a while back about making the hosters easier to create. I'll be doing an updated definitions set for AME 3 pretty soon. Will you be able to make the definitions compatible with the next Directory? At the very least, some similarity in the XML files might make a basic find & replace method workable. I've looked at the hosting files before and it just didn't seem possible to convert the defs without a significant amount of trial and error.

[Veer]

Hi Jaxel

Thank you for taking the directory to next level.

The new layout is awesome, I will not mind if you remove the report system and auto thread system but please do not leave the sidebar area, navbar links under the tabs are not so noticeable, sidebar looks always awesome. A confusing thing is 1280 width, most of my users have 1024 width monitors, please take care of it.

thank you and good luck

Originally Posted by Jaxel

Don't worry, I'll put an option in to place it underneath, instead of to the right.

I'm optimizing the DEFAULT settings for 1280 width monitors.

Originally Posted by Jaxel

Okay... been on and off programming all day... This is the status right now...

Home Page design done... I made the entire display script modular, so putting in sections for highest rated and most popular videos is extremely easy to do. Because of the modular nature of the display script, the category, and user pages are also done. The tag pages will also be very easy to implement the same way. All these pages use the same exact templates, its only the code-behind thats different.

I'm having a hard time understand the whole datamanager system, so I don't know if I'll be using it. The whole datamanager system was implemented with the original author, and he never implemented the VF_METHOD stuff correctly, so it really didn't do anything.

On the agenda:
video submission
video moderation
video editing
comment system
tagging system
rating system
search system

I don't think I will be re-implementing the video reporting function... It really served no purpose. As well, I will not be re-implementing the auto-thread creation function either; with the new sidebar module system, there really isn't a need.

Do you guys think I need to put a sidebar back in? With the new navtab system in VB4, I don't know if a sidebar is essential anymore.

[Cybershaolin]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

You had mentioned something, oh, quite a while back about making the hosters easier to create. I'll be doing an updated definitions set for AME 3 pretty soon. Will you be able to make the definitions compatible with the next Directory? At the very least, some similarity in the XML files might make a basic find & replace method workable. I've looked at the hosting files before and it just didn't seem possible to convert the defs without a significant amount of trial and error.

This would be awesome to get as many hosters for Video Directory Remixed than for AME! I'm sure I'm not alone waiting to get this possibility. This is the only thing missing in this great hack, more video hosters. The're not easy to understand or create.

[Jaxel]

Hosters are being DATABASE driven, instead of XML file driven now. Below is the database construct and the YouTube example. Since its being database driven, if you wanted to merge it with AME, I don't see how it would be a problem. Just extract the service name, the regex code and link it directly to the embed code. Of course, you wouldn't have the url to feed, or the feed to variables...

serviceID	= primary key		= 1
svcName		= service name		= YouTube
svcRegex	= regex matching 	= http:\/\/[a-z]*?[\.]?youtube\.[a-z]*?\/watch\?v=([A-Z0-9._%-]*)
svcFeed		= url to feed		= http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/{serviceVAL}
svcThumb	= feed to thumb		= $arr['media:group']['media:thumbnail'][0]['url']
svcTitle	= feed to title		= $arr['media:group']['media:description']['value']
svcDesc		= feed to desc		= $arr['media:group']['media:title']['value']
svcLength	= feed to length	= $arr['media:group']['media:keywords']
svcTags		= feed to tags		= $arr['media:group']['yt:duration']['seconds']
svcURL		= souurce url		= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v={serviceVAL}
svcEmbed	= embed code		= <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/{serviceVAL}&autoplay=1&fs=1&rel=0&hd=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385" />