Major Additions - Video Gallery - Share Videos! (From Any Website)

Current Version: Beta 3 (Updated October 31st)

NOTE: I will take this hack out of it's BETA stage soon! Please report any features you would like to see, or any bugs that you encounter!

This hack will add a video gallery to your forums accessible at the location: www.yourforumurl.com/forums/videogallery.php

To add a video users must specify a unique videoID code and select a "Video Type" from the list of available options. This hack comes included with "Video Types" for Google Video and YouTube. A "Video Type" consists basically of just the Embedding code for that video sharing site with each instance of the Unique Video ID replaced with the text: $code. When the video is displayed the text $code is replaced with the UniqueID specified by the user who added the video.

You can add new video types to accommodate almost any video sharing website. There are detailed instructions written within the hack to help you through this process.


Features Added in Beta Version 3
Pagination has been made more robust.
Templates have been tweaked for visual appeal.
Comment Writer and Admins can now delete comments.

Features added in Beta Version 2

1) A means to move videos from one category to another.
2) Video Rating System
3) Category Video Listing will display recently added videos + highest rated videos.
4) Video Comments

Please click install, and ask for support!!!! I will give it.

Demo (Current running Beta 2): http://www.becomeunbroken.com/videogallery.php

[Defkalion]

It's just the order of the item in the list.

[legionofangels]

Hello,

I have noticed that in your comments you state there is an option to add other types of video media.

Meaning I could add Metacafe videos to this gallery or Godtube for example?

Quick question,

Thanks,

Legion

[OnyxChase]

Originally Posted by chuckrobbie

No I had the same problem!
What I did was edit the header template (3.6.8)
I just added this!
<!-- Videos -->
<td class="vbmenu_control_top"><a href="videogallery.php?">Videos</td>
<!-- /Videos -->
and it worked!

BUT I have another problem!

My video display page is bugged...I get the bottom skin images and skin selection button appearing to the right of the video and not at the botom where they should be - so my screen is all messed up!
Where & how can I fix this?

This mod is just what I was praying for! Thank you so much!

It is missing </td></tr></table> above the </body>$footer</html> in the vgal_viewvideo template.

[gonzek]

where the phrases are placed for translate?

[legionofangels]

Really impressed with this add on, marking as installed after this post.

I have no errors in video count, the only thing that doesn't work is you can't move the videos to other categories, but that's not even important to me. I'd rather it be removed if that was the case, but again, I don't care.

The real issue here is that this add on has endless possibilities of what can be done with it, if the embedding set up could be changed. I mean, so many websites out there are allowing embedding of there content. Even msnbc is allowing it now, I think only for single videos, rather than an actual stream, but that's still new.

The thing is though is that we have to enter in the paramters for embedding for each one, and then find the various codes of the video which are a small snippet of the actual url.

Like I said, it's a great mod, one of the best I've seen for it's potential and so I'm not putting the author down, I'm just wondering why the uploading couldn't be simplified. Not uploading, but embedding.

Why couldn't I make a new "type" and leave it blank and then enter in an html code for an embedded video such as:

<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/FOTAfGuLA-0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/FOTAfGuLA-0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>

Which is found all over the place on youtube, and all over the web with the 40 + different players.

I can hear someone saying that there could be security issues and my response is, NOT if they can't upload videos. I'm saying if I took this add on and allowed only Mods and Admins to upload, but anyone can watch or view, HTML would then be confined to the embedded area and yet HTML does not work in the comments so people couldn't post there own in the comments section. That I did already try with a super admin account, and it does not work even if it's turned on for the usergroup.

So basically I could embed anything in there if I could enter in a basic or blank "type" and then put in the code for the embedding of the video. Things such as the audio prank calls at ebaumsworld or audio files such as at dizzler.com.

Movies from youku or megavideo.

So to end this commentary, does anyone have any ideas as to how to make a blank or basic "type" so that all html would work if we entered that into the code box?

Asking before I do testing of my own here...

Thank you in advance,

Legion

Wishlist for future versions:

Each User can create there own CATEGORY or like a personal but public viewable category where only they can add videos to there own category.

[Rideharder]

wow nice!! Thanks so much!!

http://speedaholic.net

[MissKalunji]

would be nice if i could integrate it with my video section (like i post a thread for each video)

[legionofangels]

Is there anyway to isolate categories to usergroup?

[legionofangels]

ok we actually got the video count error.

Since the author of the mod doesn't seem to want or have time to fix it, we'll look into it. It's just a code error most likely in calculation of the counts. If we find a fix, we'll post it up for everyone. It should have been done a long time ago though, it cannot be that hard to fix a calculation coding error.

Still a good add on though, definitely recommend to people.

[legionofangels]

Originally Posted by legionofangels

Wishlist for future versions:

Each User can create there own CATEGORY or like a personal but public viewable category where only they can add videos to there own category.

Adding to the wishlist an option for if not the above, an admin cp option giving you what choice can add categories without giving them full admin access to the Video Gallery.