Major Additions - Video-Directory

Video-Directory - developed by vBPoint.org

What is this?

This add on gives your users the possibility to collect their favourite videos from some video-webpages (supported at the moment: MyVideo, YouTube, Sevenload and Metacafe) and to provide them in the forum. The videos can be commented and rated.

The Administrator has many possibilities of settings and can create video-categories and administrate the video-directory.

List of features:

• Completely integrated in vBulletin
• Many possibility of settings for the Administrator
  • Many possibilities of settings
  • permissions of usergroups
  • Administration of categories
  • Administration of video-webpages
    • Incl. import and export
• Very simple installation
• Homepage can be configured easily
• Videos are integrated in the forum
  • Videos can be voted with AJAX
  • Commets to videos can be posted
  • Videos can be reported
  • User can see other members watching the video at the same time
• Simple search-function
• RSS-Feed of videos
• Advanced WOL-integration
• Advanced vBSEO-integration

Installation:

1. Upload all files from the directory "root" (Keep the structure of folders)
2. The directory of videothumbnails and includes/videoserviceapi needs 777 permissions
3. Import the product-videodirectory.xml from the admin-controllpanel
4. After importing the product DON'T close the window, follow the installiton instructions!

History:

• 1.0.0 RC 1 - First release
• 1.0.0 RC 2 - Improvements and correcting some errors - many thanks to Hapi for reworking the templates!
• 1.0.0 RC 3 - Correting some bugs: 38409, 38496, 38548, 38611
• 1.1.0 Beta 1 - "Major Release"
  • Correcting some bugs
  • New: Search function
  • New: Reporting funvtion for videos
  • New: Import/export funtion for Video-Webpages
  • New: Improvements for guests
  • New: Best voted videos on Mainpage
  • New: vBSEO-Integration
  • New: Simplified installation
• 1.1.0 Beta 2 - Small Bugfix-Release
• 1.1.0 RC 1 - New Feature (Members who are watching the same video at video details page), Bugfixes (Missing File for comments added, vBSEO CRR fixed)
• 1.1.0 RC 2 - Added two new videohosters (sevenload and metacafe), added rss feed, added thumbnail-preview when adding a video, MyVideo Class optimized, some bugs fixed

Roadmap for Version 1.2.0:

• Tag-function for videos
• Favourite Videos (AJAX)
• Watchlist (AJAX)
• [s]User watching the same video at the moment[/s] - Added in Version 1.1.0 RC 1
• Video-comments per AJAX, to avoid reload
• "Video-Profile" for user
• Moderation
• [S]New Videos in forumhome[/S] (See addons)
• [s]RSS-Feed for Videos[/s] - Added in Version 1.1.0 RC 2
• Integration in statistic-block in profile

Developer notes:

Do you want to enhance the video-directory, but some hooks are missing? Do you want to enhance the templates and you need some template-hooks? No Problem! Send a PM and the hooks will be integrated in the next version!

Developer-Blog:

Feel free to check out our Developer-Blog at vBPoint.org!

[winstone]

Originally Posted by Surviver

No, each api is completely different, and many hosters don't have one. There's also another was to integrate them, but that could be very cpmplex.

my question was having a sample plugin code (sample hoster) which does not uses any API, you simply get the URL, extract the variable from it and finally wrap the variable with html stuff, that shouldn't be complex

btw I saw a guy who wanted a WeGame hoster, I made one for it however it requires PHP5 with SimpleXML libraries (couldn't get the built-in vbulletin XML class to work, perhaps you can fix it Surviver and maybe include in future releases)

Edit:
if interested to use this, after installation create a folder called "WeGame" (case sensitive) in "videothumbnails" folder and give it write(777) permission

[Surviver]

Originally Posted by winstone

my question was having a sample plugin code (sample hoster) which does not uses any API, you simply get the URL, extract the variable from it and finally wrap the variable with html stuff, that shouldn't be complex

btw I saw a guy who wanted a WeGame hoster, I made one for it however it requires PHP5 with SimpleXML libraries (couldn't get the built-in vbulletin XML class to work, perhaps you can fix it Surviver and maybe include in future releases)

Very nice! This XML Page i called api (it's not a full api, but it's eneught).

I'll modify it a bit and integrate it into the next release!

Regards
Surviver

[TriMe]

Originally Posted by Jaxel

Survivor... I've made a crap ton of changes to your code on my own forums... in the scripts, and in the templates... This is what I have now:

http://www.8wayrun.com/video.php
http://www.8wayrun.com/video.php?do=...ls&videoid=230

I changed a lot of the formatting, so that it looks less generic and can display more information a single screen... plus, on the video details pages, hacked your code up to support BB Code for [youtube] tags.

That's amazing! Please share your work with us!

TriMe

[puregraf]

I cant figure out out to add /edit the categories can you please help?

Thanks

[Surviver]

Originally Posted by puregraf

I cant figure out out to add /edit the categories can you please help?

Thanks

You can just add some via the ACP Menu?!

[TriMe]

Originally Posted by puregraf

I cant figure out out to add /edit the categories can you please help?

Thanks

Make sure your administrator usergroup has permissions set.

and as Survivor said - in your admincp

[puregraf]

ah! i totally missed that, thank you!!! this contrib rocks!

[nightbloom]

Originally Posted by winstone

my question was having a sample plugin code (sample hoster) which does not uses any API, you simply get the URL, extract the variable from it and finally wrap the variable with html stuff, that shouldn't be complex

btw I saw a guy who wanted a WeGame hoster, I made one for it however it requires PHP5 with SimpleXML libraries (couldn't get the built-in vbulletin XML class to work, perhaps you can fix it Surviver and maybe include in future releases)

When I tried to use it, I got an error and the thumbnail creation failed. *frustrated* So close.... The video shows tho and will play but I uninstalled it.

Ooooooh someone fix it for me! My forum members are gathering the pitchforks and torches.......

PHP Code:

Warning: fopen([path]/videothumbnails/WeGame/SRO_s_Original_Trailer.jpg) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/videoserviceapi/class_wegame.php on line 95

Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in [path]/includes/videoserviceapi/class_wegame.php on line 96

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in [path]/includes/videoserviceapi/class_wegame.php on line 97

 /** * vBulletin 3.7.4 CSS * Style: 'Fly's 1337 skin'; Style ID: 3 */ @import url("clientscript/vbulletin_css/style-ffaa9bb7-00003.css"); 


[winstone]

Originally Posted by nightbloom

When I tried to use it, I got an error and the thumbnail creation failed.

all you need to do is, creating a folder called "WeGame" (case sensitive) in "videothumbnails" folder and giving it write(777) permission

as for PHP5 question, it seems you already have PHP5 with SimpleXML libraries

[winstone]

a feature request to Survivor,

-> multi-level categories

all that needs to be done is adding "parentid" to cats and creating a function to show them all in right structure

by the way I modified the code to have maximum 3 level cats but it's not worth sharing as its just a nested while loop

cheers