New Posting Features - VB AnyMedia Player / Media Sites (youtube, google and many more)

Goldbrick Media system for vBulletin 3.6.x

Thanks to all who nominated or voted this for MOTM.

Some of you might be looking for Anymedia. Well this has replaced it. It's a total rewrite from the ground up. A huge thanks goes to Sir Adrian for creating the framework. He can't cook soup but he sure can code.

Why the name goldbrck?

From Wikipedia:

Goldbricking, in today's terms, generally refers to staff who use their work internet access for personal reasons while maintaining the appearance of working.

From Urban Dictionary:

Goldbricking: To loaf or goof around on the job. Supposedly an old union term describing laborers (or more specifically, bricklayers) who were going so slow, it was as if each brick were made of solid gold. One can alse be referred to as a "goldbricker".

Dude, I spent all day at work goldbricking - surfing the web, making long distance phone calls - basically just picking my ass.

Goldbrick uses the following third party Products:

• Highslide Javascript. I've packaged it with the 3.1 download. Please read the license agreement on highlide's website. In short it's free for non-commercial use. http://vikjavev.no/highslide/
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• The media player and mp3 player are from http://www.jeroenwijering.com/

What's new in Goldbrick?

• Complete code overhaul.
• Plays most media types.
• Forum admins can add their own video sites
• Updated Highslide.js
• Attachment Images work with Goldbrick
• Don't need to use BBCODE
• Auto Phrases URL's
• Media Options per post
• Much more on the way!

Goldbrick's Requirements:

• Vbulletin :P
• PHP 5

Goldbrick Version 1.5:
- Fixed Vbadvanced integration
- Fixed extensions permissions checking
- Added pickup of old [media] tags
- More code changes for later features

Goldbrick Version 1.4:
- Fixed Apple trailers
- Added Added Viemo videos
- More code changes for later features

Goldbrick Version 1.3:
- Fixed Images
- Fixed MP3's
- Fixed Myspace, now supports myspacetv.com
- Added Increase or decrease video size for the classic player (testebr gets the credit for this one)
- Added Added ESPN videos
- Added Veoh video site.

Goldbrick Version 1.2:
- Added Videos for Profiles for vbulletin 3.7
- Added Classic Skin
- Added Vblog Support
- Added Vbadvanced Support
- Fixed Attachments
- Rewrote some of the code


Planned Features:

- Youtube like interface
- Video Comments
- Media Tags
- Media Searching


Please report any issues or suggestions.

[RedGTiVR6]

sweet!

thanks!

[marcus_brutus]

Hi,

Thanks very much for this great hack. I have a question which was posted about the orginal hack. A couple of the guys posted that there's potential security issues with the hack, they were saying that there's nothing to stop someone from embeding a link redirecting from within a flash movie to another site and then harvesting your member logins etc. I wasn't certain if this potential issue only applies to the previous hack, or to others including the latest version. Can you confirm?

Thanks a lot
marcus

[nix]

I answered your pm but I'll also answer it here. What they're trying to say is that if you allow people to embed flash files it could potentially be used in a negative way. You can turn off any of the extensions you don't want them to use. So for instance you could only allow the video sites.

This would apply to any mod or hack that allows people to embed. I personally only allow video sites. You have to decide what is best for your forum.

[smoknz28]

Mmmm.....can someone help me along in determining why I'm getting the following error when attempting to post the link with AnyMedia?

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: curl_init() in /xxxx/xxxxxxx/public_html/forums/includes/class_anymedia.php on line 239

Here's what is on line 239: $handle = curl_init();

I am running the latest version of AnyMedia and vBulletin.

[nix]

looks like your server doesn't support curl. What link are you trying to use? If you don't have curl yahoo, dailymotion and break will not work.

[smoknz28]

Thanks Nix....I'm trying to use a YouTube video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owMjAbkU1eE

I'll see if I can figure out how to see if my server supports "curl". Do you have any suggestions on how to find this out however>?

[nix]

I'll add a check for curl before it does it so it doesn't kick those errors out. I upload it here in a sec.

To find out of you have curl, goto your adminCP and look under Maintenance. You'll see php info. Just do a search for Curl.

[smoknz28]

Did a check through my php info....with a search of "curl" and nothing found.

Please post up when the file is ready for download.

Thanks again Nix for your support.

[nix]

Can you check to see if you have fopen?

[smoknz28]

Originally Posted by nix

Can you check to see if you have fopen?

allow_url_fopen On On