Major Additions - Goldbrick Audio/Video Media System

Goldbrick Media system for vBulletin 3.7

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/
• - - -
• 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

Planned Features:

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

Install Instructions:

1. Upload file contents in the upload folder.
2. Import the Product.xml

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


Supported Video Sites: 19 so far. Looking in goldbrick/sites folder for a full list. Users can create their own. I'll post a HOW-TO with the details.



Please report any issues or suggestions.

[Chadi]

Yes, I did. I mentioned this link before, few pages back:

http://www.youtube.com/v/uuabITeO4l8

Nothing shows up in profile.

Can you confirm if the "My Media" tab is from GB or a new VB 3.7 feature? Just curious as I did not pay attention prior to the upgrade on GB or VB 3.7

[rapidphim]

I do show the media under my media tab on my profile.

[aksolo]

thanks a bunch now works fine !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[nix]

Originally Posted by chadi

Yes, I did. I mentioned this link before, few pages back:

http://www.youtube.com/v/uuabITeO4l8

Nothing shows up in profile.

Can you confirm if the "My Media" tab is from GB or a new VB 3.7 feature? Just curious as I did not pay attention prior to the upgrade on GB or VB 3.7

That isn't the correct link for youtube. Just use the url in the browser. My Media is from GB.

[rapidphim]

Nix,
we now have vb 3.7.1, can you please update when the new update/upgrade version will be released? Thanks!

[Chadi]

Small problem. I cannot figure out which exact template to edit and which code portion to fix the background color of the My Media tab. See attached. I'm referring to the actual tab bg, not video area bg.

Also, seems I have some duplicate templates of GB probably from old version.

Please confirm which ones are correct and which can be deleted.

Also, is there a way to set moderation for GB profile video ?

[nix]

I'll clean up the templates.

That tab looks correct since its the selected tab.

[Chadi]

I was referring to the background of the tab *page*, not the actual bg of the tab itself.

The tab page should be default e4e6f5 color. Only for the GB tab, it shows up as e2e1ea.

Even in usercp, only when you go to the GB profile video area, suddenly ALL the rows to left panel are in the same e2e1ea color instead of the set e4e6f5

[Finster]

It is really odd how this hack sometimes renders a video thumbnail, then other times for the same video file sharing site it only shows up as a hyperlinked url, with url tags added viewable only when editing. Editing it to add media tags then makes it entirely disappear sometimes. Other times it shows up as a hyperlinked url, then later, the media tags get auto-added and it renders as a vid thumbnail.

Does 1.8 fix the 1.5 issue of when the admin cp is set so guests cannot view media or images, 1.5 shows them anyway? 1.5 wouldn't let us change the viewer window size in the hack cp.

[MikeHolohan]

I have an error, I am running 3.7.1

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ')' in /home/*****/public_html/goldbrick/plugins/bbcode_create.php on line 53