Major Additions - Video Club (YouTUBE, Vimeo, DailyMotion etc)

Since 2006 I was serving community members with my Free Mods
But as this site will starts operating by the company,
I'm no willing to support them

** File Removed **


Video Club
Fetch Videos from many Providers with URL
since ver. 1.2.0 you can also embed any valid video code

Things to know !!!

• If your site is SSL and you try to show a video from a non SSL site, video should not works.
• If you can't show YouTUBE videos, most probably your API key is wrong. Be sure that you've setup correct the API key and it is ver. 3. Here is a good tutorial.
• If you see strange characters in the text, the problem is character encoding. Even in English, if you're using iso-8859-1 but the video provider uses UTF-8 should have some problems. But you can edit the text, so not so important issue.

Demo Installation
demouser1 / demopass1
demouser2 / demopass2
demouser3 / demopass3
PS: In my demo I've setup Disqus as commenting system. But it's up to you to setup Threads instead.

1.- What's this?

Video Club is a Video Gallery mod for your community. It's easy to use and has a nice interface. User just needs to enter a link to the video and set a category. All others done automatically. For comments supports Thread per video but also the well known Disqus external commenting system. I strongly recommend you to use Disqus as it's very social and soon you'll see an increment amount of pageviews.

2.- Video Providers (Websites)

• 5min.com
• Blip.tv
• Break.com
• Collegehumor.com
• Dailymotion.com
• Funnyordie.com
• Gametrailers.com
• Hulu.com
• Justin.tv
• Metacafe.com
• MySpace.com
• Ustream.tv
• Veoh.com
• Vimeo.com
• Screen.Yahoo.com
• YouTUBE.com
• ver. 1.2.0 NEW!! Now you can add manual any video code your want

3.- Comments

Not only one but 3 types for comments (plus an option to not use comments)

• Thread
• Disqus
• Ajax comments

4. Installation

1. Upload all files from upload folder to the folder where your vBulletin 4.2 is installed
2. CMOD 777 the directories
   1. videoclub/thumbs
   2. videoclub/thumbs/tmp
3. Login to your admincp and import the file product-videoclub.xml
4. Set Usergroup permissions
5. Set General Options according to your needs
   1. ** MOST IMPORTANT SETTINGS **
   2. Get a YouTUBE API key from https://console.developers.google.co...is/credentials
   3. Decide if you'll use Threads for comments or Disqus. If you'll use Disqus set your site at: https://disqus.com/admin/create/
   4. Set Server Path to Uploads !!!
6. If you want modify PM templates but don't touch anything between {}
7. Set the Categories

5.- PRO Version

After many years I decided to use PRO version not as a way not to earn money (I don't expect to have more than 10 sales), but rather to find a way to pay for some commercial scripts that I want to use in the PRO version (Distribution License). The follow features will be in the PRO version:

• Extra Providers
  • Facebook
  • LiveLeak.com
  • OpenLoadMovies.com
• Videoplayer with support for prevideo ads
• Better carousel for latest videos at top
• Video search in multiple providers
• Many notifications
• Brand free

[BadgerDog]

Originally Posted by paradoxG(r)eek

What happen with sidebar? Have you found any other computer to test it?

Chris... see post #338... :up:

Regards,
Doug

[BadgerDog]

Chris....

Sent you an additional PayPal for the extra work you performed on our site, assisting with the text coloring etc.... much appreciated.... :up:

We're going to start planning for going live for our membership sometime this weekend, but we wanted to do further testing with the PM functions of "approving, rejecting etc.." first, to make sure there's no issues with that function.

I mentioned it earlier, but some thoughts for future design features we'd like to see, which some other mods similar to yours currently offer. It would be great if Video Club was capable of...

1. Allowing a user (or Admins) to EDIT existing video article information and perhaps also edit and change the existing thumbnail pic, like they can when first adding the video to the club, that would be an excellent function ..

2. An option (perhaps in AdminCP settings?) to have TAGS shown or not shown in the mod's video display screen. In my opinion, they clutter the display and my experience has been a lot of our members would never use them, as they don't even use the ones in vBulletin, so it would be great if we could turn them off being displayed at all.

Thanks again for all your work... :up:

Regards,
Doug

[paradoxG(r)eek]

Originally Posted by BadgerDog

Chris....

Sent you an additional PayPal for the extra work you performed on our site, assisting with the text coloring etc.... much appreciated.... :up:

Thank you very much for your continous support Doug. Really appreciated. Soon I'll PM you details, as I'm planing to start operating my site.

Originally Posted by BadgerDog

We're going to start planning for going live for our membership sometime this weekend, but we wanted to do further testing with the PM functions of "approving, rejecting etc.." first, to make sure there's no issues with that function.

To be honest I just changed the lists there. Haven't tested PMs but as they were working fine at my Media Gallery mod, I'm sure that they'll work fine on this mod too.

Originally Posted by BadgerDog

1. Allowing a user (or Admins) to EDIT existing video article information and perhaps also edit and change the existing thumbnail pic, like they can when first adding the video to the club, that would be an excellent function ..

hmmm...... There is a legal problem here which I need to read more in depth. Actually the original code was supporting Add/Edit so I did extra work to remove the Edit code. The problem is that providers does not allows any data modifications. They asked users to keep same title, description etc, as they count it copyright of the original poster.

Originally Posted by BadgerDog

2. An option (perhaps in AdminCP settings?) to have TAGS shown or not shown in the mod's video display screen. In my opinion, they clutter the display and my experience has been a lot of our members would never use them, as they don't even use the ones in vBulletin, so it would be great if we could turn them off being displayed at all.

This can be done. I'll add it.

Originally Posted by BadgerDog

Thanks again for all your work... :up:

You welcome Doug and once again thank you. I wish all the best to veterans there

[BadgerDog]

Originally Posted by paradoxG(r)eek

Haven't tested PMs but as they were working fine at my Media Gallery mod, I'm sure that they'll work fine on this mod too.

You're welcome Chris ..

We do not want members uploading a bunch of crap, so we do want to control and moderate which groups can upload and which can't.

Ok, I just started testing the PM function and it doesn't seem to work as designed...

I had a user called "tester" who uploaded a YouTube video just fine. It told him (message quickly flashed by) it was being submitted for approval before posting and returned to the main screen. Just an idea.. the message that it's being submitted for approval comes and goes so fast, I think there's going to be a lot of problems with people who can't read it quick enough and as a result, when they don't see there video on the main screen, they'll keep uploading it over and over again, thinking the previous upload didn't work. How about a HUGE message (admin phase configurable?) where it STOPS, they read it and then have to hit enter to go on... or, something like that?

Now to the main problem....

The designated user ID (default was userid 1 but we changed it to 31098), who is supposed to receive notices and moderate, never sees anything indicating there's a video to approve?

I even checked user ID 1 (Admin) to see if it went there and no, it didn't?

The original uploader called "tester" sees his video in his "My Videos" area, but not on the main screen, so I know the uploaded video is there someplace. By the way, you should mark videos in the "My Videos" area as "Waiting for Approval to Post", or something like that, so the original uploader knows it's status and it's still waiting for approval.

I've attached the Usergroup settings for the uploader, who can do everything shown, except moderate and they must have videos approved.

By the way, as an aside... the Admin Usergroup has ALL boxes checked, yet they can freely upload without having to ge approval from anyone, so I don't think that setting, by accident or design, is work the way you want?

Hope this helps figure out where the issue is..

Regards,
Doug

[paradoxG(r)eek]

Originally Posted by BadgerDog

Just an idea.. the message that it's being submitted for approval comes and goes so fast, I think there's going to be a lot of problems with people who can't read it quick enough and as a result, when they don't see there video on the main screen, they'll keep uploading it over and over again, thinking the previous upload didn't work. How about a HUGE message (admin phase configurable?) where it STOPS, they read it and then have to hit enter to go on... or, something like that?

Redirection messages have the same speed all over all vB functions. Don't know if the delay can be changed somewhere in 1000's vB settings, but I can't change the delay.

What I can do is to add one more setting and admin selects if he wants redirection or halt pages. Halt page means a static page where the user must clicks a link to continue. Maybe it's sound better but believe me is frustated for most users especially if they want to add many videos.

Originally Posted by BadgerDog

The designated user ID (default was userid 1 but we changed it to 31098), who is supposed to receive notices and moderate, never sees anything indicating there's a video to approve?

I don't think that any vB action which needs approval (eg normal post) has any type of notification. Moderators are responsible to visit ModCP from time to time to check what is under upproval. In anycase is not a big deal to add such notification. Just keep in mind that the id that you'll setup to be an active id. Moste webmasters are registering a system account to control such "noreply" messages and never check them.

Originally Posted by BadgerDog

The original uploader called "tester" sees his video in his "My Videos" area, but not on the main screen, so I know the uploaded video is there someplace. By the way, you should mark videos in the "My Videos" area as "Waiting for Approval to Post", or something like that, so the original uploader knows it's status and it's still waiting for approval.

I'll check it, but I'm almost sure that it works. The video appears in "My Videos" page with remark: Awaiting Approval (red color). The phrase to change the text is: videoclub_unapproved

Originally Posted by BadgerDog

I've attached the Usergroup settings for the uploader, who can do everything shown, except moderate and they must have videos approved.

They're correct.

Originally Posted by BadgerDog

By the way, as an aside... the Admin Usergroup has ALL boxes checked, yet they can freely upload without having to ge approval from anyone, so I don't think that setting, by accident or design, is work the way you want?

Users who have permission to Moderate don't need approval even if the setting "Needs Approval" is on. And this is logic. Why I (as Moderator) need to approve my own videos? Is it possible to reject it?

[BadgerDog]

Originally Posted by paradoxG(r)eek

Redirection messages have the same speed all over all vB functions. Don't know if the delay can be changed somewhere in 1000's vB settings, but I can't change the delay.

What I can do is to add one more setting and admin selects if he wants redirection or halt pages. Halt page means a static page where the user must clicks a link to continue. Maybe it's sound better but believe me is frustated for most users especially if they want to add many videos.

Hmmm.. I didn't know that ... it's going to be a real problem if users don't understand that their video won't appear until approved. I'll leave it with you to think about...

Originally Posted by paradoxG(r)eek

I don't think that any vB action which needs approval (eg normal post) has any type of notification. Moderators are responsible to visit ModCP from time to time to check what is under upproval. In anycase is not a big deal to add such notification. Just keep in mind that the id that you'll setup to be an active id. Moste webmasters are registering a system account to control such "noreply" messages and never check them.


I'll check it, but I'm almost sure that it works. The video appears in "My Videos" page with remark: Awaiting Approval (red color). The phrase to change the text is: videoclub_unapproved

I'm confused..

I thought that the designated video moderator received a PM that there was a video waiting for approval? If that's not the case and it's supposed to appear under Moderation (like posts and threads), well, I can't see it under the designated moderator's area anywhere, but I'll go back and look.

Originally Posted by paradoxG(r)eek

Users who have permission to Moderate don't need approval even if the setting "Needs Approval" is on. And this is logic. Why I (as Moderator) need to approve my own videos? Is it possible to reject it?

Understood now... makes sense .. :up:

Regards,
Doug

[BadgerDog]

ok ..

Here's the "My Videos" screen of the user "tester" who uploaded a video that's waiting for approval, but has yet to be approved by anyone...

I don't see anywhere it shows that it's waiting for approval and won't appear until it gets approved?

Am I missing something?

Regards,
Doug

ps: By the way, what does "hide" mean and what's its purpose?

[paradoxG(r)eek]

Originally Posted by BadgerDog

Here's the "My Videos" screen of the user "tester" who uploaded a video that's waiting for approval, but has yet to be approved by anyone...

I don't see anywhere it shows that it's waiting for approval and won't appear until it gets approved?

Am I missing something?

I'll check it after a short rest, but at least the code is correct. The restriction in query for what videos to show is only $userid

$items = $vbulletin->db->query_read("
							SELECT *
							FROM `" . TABLE_PREFIX . "videoclub_items`
							WHERE userid=$userid
							ORDER BY postdate DESC
							LIMIT " . ($limitlower-1) . ", $perpage");

There is no other restriction like in normal listings: approved=1 AND hidden=0

Originally Posted by BadgerDog

ps: By the way, what does "hide" mean and what's its purpose?

Sometimes users may want to hide the video for their own reasons. Instead to delete and republish it (which means loosing all view, votes, comments), he can hide it from public view (owner and moderators can still see it with direct link), and then they can activate it again.

[paradoxG(r)eek]

Originally Posted by BadgerDog

ok ..

Here's the "My Videos" screen of the user "tester" who uploaded a video that's waiting for approval, but has yet to be approved by anyone...

Seems that there is something missing from the template, and not from the code. Below the icons must be a line with the status: Active, Hidden, Awaiting Approval. So it's an easy fix.

[BadgerDog]

Originally Posted by paradoxG(r)eek

Seems that there is something missing from the template, and not from the code. Below the icons must be a line with the status: Active, Hidden, Awaiting Approval. So it's an easy fix.

:up::up::up:

Now, I'm still looking for where the designated moderator "approves" the uploaded video..

I've checked all moderated areas, inboxes and the main Video Club page, but I see nowhere does that moderator get a message to review and click on something to approve a video.

Thanks again..

Regards,
Doug