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...

[dancue]

nevermind. I dove into and it worked.

Looks very nice. How do you change the amount of videos to display on the module?

[tyranny]

Thanks for the heads up. Glad to know it's only youtube, I am totally in love with this mod

Cheers!

Originally Posted by Jaxel

@tyranny... that error has NOTHING to do with this mod. It has to do with Youtube sucking. It just means that the server that the video is polling the XML data from is down... wait a few hours and it usually fixes itself.

[Fastbird]

Hmm, I've installed this fresh and followed all the steps. The mod is seriously awesome but I can't get avatars to show up in the comments. I've chmodded the thumbs folder and I've rebuilt both avatars and custom avatars. Any ideas? Thumbnails work ok for picture commenting, and when I view the image location, it gives me a long string, opposed to an image file in the thumbs directory. I'm pretty sure my images store to the database, and I installed vbulletin at the 3.7.x level.

[tlwwolfseye]

Does it work with vB 3.7.5 ?

[Skyrider]

So going to install this, very interesting for my forum! ^_ ^, thanks!

[l_amhed]

Hi there !

First thanks for this hack, this is a reaaallly good idea !
All was working like a charm, and didn't do any changement in your hack, but since it is insalled I tried some other hacks (maybe there is a correlation) and I just pay attention yesterday that the :
General settings
Video detail settings
Video tag settings

Options in the AdminCP don't 'work' anymore. I mean when i click on the links nothing is appearing (even if I can access the 'Video-directory Details' via the VB options menu).

EDIT: I found that my problem is related to the XML cp_nav file
<link>options.php?do=options&amp;dogroup=videodire ctory</link>
I don't know why but the &amp; is not parsed when I 'over' the link in my adminCP with my mouse it's written "options.php?do=optionsdogroup=videodirectory" instead of "options.php?do=options&dogroup=videodirectory ". I don't know why and moreover and don't know how to fix such a thing heheh.

(hope my english is understandable by the way)

[Skyrider]

I wanted to add a video, and got this error:

Warning: fopen([path]/videothumbnails/YouTube/ydXOrtcKP6M.jpg) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in [path]/includes/videoserviceapi/class_youtube.php on line 91

Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in [path]/includes/videoserviceapi/class_youtube.php on line 92

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in [path]/includes/videoserviceapi/class_youtube.php on line 93

Though the video seems to be added. Any idea what this might be? and the CHMOD is 777 of images and includes video folder.

[6piston]

hi jaxel

thanks for the awesome remake of this great mod,
the video directory looks great, is easy to use and hassle free. even the installation was interesting with the VBSEO acknowledgement.

the vbadvanced plugin also compliments this.
i actually removed vbtube and started fresh with the mod

okay, i have a question:
For the ease of the members, if it was possible to add a "Video URL: __________ Submit" right in the video_home. which submits the video automatically to a category. doesn't even matter you can't choose categories.

it'll be awesome if you could post some codes

[tlwwolfseye]

How do I configure the Video hosters like VEOH and is there a addon for vBCMS ?

[Skyrider]

Any possible these can be added as video hosters?

- MODDB (http://moddb.com)
- FileFront (http://filefront.com)

And possible youtube video's automatic have high quality on?

Great plugin btw!