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...

[JacquiiDesigns]

Originally Posted by blind-eddie

Deal finished, stay tuned.

Awesome. Was it an easy fix?
And really cool that you're sharing the fix with the community dude!

J.

[blind-eddie]

Waiting for email with files and read me.
You know I can not post files or a product. Those that will use it will need to edit whatever files that need edited. Unless you secretly pm me and I will send you the files, wink wink....

[JacquiiDesigns]

Originally Posted by blind-eddie

Waiting for email with files and read me.
You know I can not post files or a product. Those that will use it will need to edit whatever files that need edited. Unless you secretly pm me and I will send you the files, wink wink....

Just wanted to say thanks. And keep getting:


Anyway - Your efforts & generosity are certainly appreciated!
Cheers!

J.

[blind-eddie]

This is working for the most part, the gentleman that worked on this for us is looking into a few issues I mentioned and will email me when he is finished.
This is loaded on my site, feel free to register and test how it is working now, but be ready to add video title and description for it to work... oh and you can now use https or http://.

Or pm me and I wilkl set up an account for you to use...

[blind-eddie]

Here you go...
Thank you to AliMadkour for fixing this issue for me so I could share it with you, so you can continue to use it.
The includes/videoserviceapi/class_youtube.php has been re-written to show videos and thumbs in you video directory. Works great.

This now works just as it did the day I installed it years ago.

With this fix, you will need to get a youtube API and add the the api number to the class_youtube.php as per readme.

Enjoy!

EDIT: Duration has been corrected, time will now show on video thumb.
Don't forget to add your API code before overwriting.

[BlackxRam]

You are awesome man, nice!

[BlackxRam]

Can we request a MOD to add this fix to the main post?

[blind-eddie]

FYI: Tags is not supported in API 3 version. And the duration format changed also so for now, you will see "???" below the video thumbnail for duration, AliMadkour is looking into a fix for this and will email me when and if a fix is found.

Either way, I am just happy its working again.

[BlackxRam]

Absolutely, when this broke when youtube changed things i massacred my site lol.

There is another little bug I noticed when outputting the creation of a video page to a forum. There seems to be a random <object> tag that appears just before the "Video:" area of that post. I am not sure if thats only with my forum or if its on a random template but I can't locate it in any of my style sheets or the plugins.

Does this do it for you? It causes almost the entire Blockquote from the youtube info to be clickable and therefore if clicked leads to an error page load.

That new object tag does not appear in any of my old posts before the fix. So I assume its related to the data on the php file somewhere.

[blind-eddie]

Nope, I don't have that issues at all.
We know the tags no longer work with api3, waiting on duration fix.
Video comments have never worked properly.
I may comment out the comment code and set it to automatically post the video in a thread without needing to check a box to make it happen.

Feel free to stop by and test it.

http://northamericancarclub.com/video.php
Login: Some Dude
Password: racecar123.com