digg.com/videos

[mryder]

Thank you Simon! That code was brilliant!

I was wondering if it was okay with you for me to expand on to that code. Digg.com also has the digg button within the pop up video playing window. I think I can figure out how to add that in there as well to make it resemble Digg.com's video feature more.

With your permission of course.

[kbeeveer46]

Very cool feature. One more thing I've saved to look at this weekend :P

[timusa]

What you just describe is great, but it will be more helpful if you share the codes here. That way someone else can pick it up for further development. I look forward t the complete files. great work.

[Simon]

Originally Posted by mryder

Thank you Simon! That code was brilliant!

I was wondering if it was okay with you for me to expand on to that code. Digg.com also has the digg button within the pop up video playing window. I think I can figure out how to add that in there as well to make it resemble Digg.com's video feature more.

With your permission of course.

Go right ahead - I don't have time to make much progress on it, so I was hoping someone else would take it up.

I was thinking the final goal should be "media" in general, not just limited to videos....music files and images can easily be included too. Take a look at bandbuzz for example (not based on pligg) for an example of how to deal with music.

[Simon]

While I was at it, I added in the ability to display other types of media files (image and music), using this mediaplayer as a start.

Demo here. Play.php becomes something like:

<?php

include('config.php');

$id = mysql_real_escape_string(strip_tags($_GET['id']));
$play_query = mysql_query("SELECT link_votes,link_url,link_type FROM " . table_links . " WHERE link_id=\"$id\" AND (link_status='published' OR link_status='queued') AND link_type!='0' LIMIT 1");
$play_array = mysql_fetch_array($play_query);
$play = $play_array['link_url'];
$votes = $play_array['link_votes'];
$type = $play_array['link_type'];
 
?>

<?php if($type == 1) { ?>
<div>
<center>
<object width="425" height="350">
<param name="movie" value="<?php echo $play ?>" />
<param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
<embed src="<?php echo $play ?>&autoplay=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350" />
</object>
<br /><br />
<b>Total Votes for this Video File:</b> <?php echo $votes ?>
</center>
</div>
<?php } ?>

<?php if($type == 2) { ?>
<div style="margin-top:15px">
<center>
<object width="425" height="350">
<embed src="/flash/mediaplayer.swf" flashvars="file=<?php echo $play ?>&autostart=true" width="425" height="350" quality="high" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</object>
<br /><br />
<b>Total Votes for this Media File:</b> <?php echo $votes ?>
</center>
</div>
<?php } ?>

For those of you looking for the "finished" files, there is no point releasing anything until it has been refined a little. The beauty of opensource is that we can collaborate on things and then release something really good. What I currently have looks bad (no nice looking previews etc) and has nothing like url checks to make sure the correct urls are entered. The reason I outlined some initial instructions on the 1st page was to hopefully get a couple of people (coders) interested in taking it further.

[Daidy]

Thank you Simon for this mod !
Can you tell us how do you made your video link to display only the video stories here : http://news.oioplus.com/videos/ ?
Thanks

[Simon]

I have put together a short tutorial, with some modified files (although others you will have to modify yourself when following the instructions), to allow people to add this kind of video submission functionality.

Remember: this isn't finished, since there are elements like url checking missing, and it has only been tested with youtube videos. Any further modifications you would like to make are fine. I will not be developing this further, as I have no time to.

Latest download package here.

[blackpr]

I am getting an damaged .zip file.....

[kbeeveer46]

I think the permissions are messed up for attachments on the server. I'll notify yank so we can get this fixed.

[mryder]

Originally Posted by Simon

1.) Edited the 1st step submission template to include radio buttons - article or video. Then added an extra db column to pligg_links (link_type) and edited the store and read functions in libs/link.php to ensure that the value of the radio buttons was recorded / selected in the database. If video was selected, the value was 1, otherwise 0. Added link_type as a smarty variable in the same file.

2.) Edited link_summary.tpl using my newly created {$link_type eq 1} varaible to differentiate posts with videos in, and posts without. So if the value comes back as 1, a small video area with play button is displayed.

Simon, can you or someone else break this down for me. I am really not a coder at all. I'm pretty amateur, still learning.