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.

[halcyoncmdr]

Apparently it auto-parses the link, although I am not getting that to work either on my forums. I will double check the edits and everything to make sure it isn't something on my end causing my problems

[Kaleem]

so did find anything about my problem ?

[seanadl]

ah i see what you mean. they can just put a youtube link in and voila?

what about old youtube links that are already on the forum? any way for it to go through them all and parse them?

[iogames]

Then??? AOL Video doesn't exist as an independent service? http://video.aol.com/

[nix]

Originally Posted by seanadl

ah i see what you mean. they can just put a youtube link in and voila?

what about old youtube links that are already on the forum? any way for it to go through them all and parse them?

If they already have the tags then its the same thing. All its doing is auto phrasing the links and putting the [media] tags on for you.

Originally Posted by iogames

Then??? AOL Video doesn't exist as an independent service? http://video.aol.com/

I could be wrong but I just don't see any vidoes that are hosted by AOL. I see a bunch of youtube and other sites.

Originally Posted by halcyoncmdr

Apparently it auto-parses the link, although I am not getting that to work either on my forums. I will double check the edits and everything to make sure it isn't something on my end causing my problems

The template edits are only needed if you wan't to use the button and for attachments. If you don't use either of those they are not needed.

Originally Posted by LightInClouds

so did find anything about my problem ?

I'm still looking into it. Can you disable SEO real quick and see if it works?

[halcyoncmdr]

I think I might have found my problem with the media tags. It seems that if I add the tags, I get a database error, however if I do not put the tags, it auto phrases it and it embeds just fine.

[nix]

Yea with this version you have to use the standard tags. I'll add that back in the next one.

[Freesteyelz]

*I haven't gone through the posts so this info may be redundant.

The default forum setting is set to "Yes". This setting may be a problem if you have many forums but only want Any Media on a select few. To change the default setting:

1. Uninstall the XML file.
2. Change line in XML from (note in red):

$vbulletin->db->query_write("ALTER TABLE `" . TABLE_PREFIX . "forum` ADD `anymediafp` INT( 10 ) UNSIGNED NOT NULL DEFAULT '1'");

To

$vbulletin->db->query_write("ALTER TABLE `" . TABLE_PREFIX . "forum` ADD `anymediafp` INT( 10 ) UNSIGNED NOT NULL DEFAULT '0'");

3. Upload the XML file with the changed settings.

Now the default forum setting is set to "No".

[nix]

Yea I was torn on which way to go with that. I'm going to make a setting to change them one way or the other.

[Freesteyelz]

Ahh, now that would be cool. Thumbs up to you on a great job.