digg.com/videos

[mhipp]

I have searched and have not found a clear answer to the question of a digg.com/videos mod. Is there such an animal for pligg?

The business model of my community revolves around the voting on of videos submitted my members. If there is such a mod that mirrors the functionallity of digg.com/videos, I would be very very grateful for a link.

Have a wonderful day.

EDIT: I'd pay someone to make this mod possible. Do we have any coders for hire here in the Pligg community? Once finished, I'd be happy to release it to the masses. So, if coded it would be best as a module for release to the community.

[en3r0]

There is a video mod, im pretty sure its in the mod options when you install pligg.

[kbeeveer46]

the current video mod just makes it easier to insert videos but what I think many people want is a small preview like digg has and then clicking it opens up lightbox with the video inside it.

[mhipp]

Originally Posted by kbeeveer46

the current video mod just makes it easier to insert videos but what I think many people want is a small preview like digg has and then clicking it opens up lightbox with the video inside it.

Exactly. To be ideal, it should work like http://www.digg.com/videos

[startkanjer]

If somebody has this function, im willing to pay for it

[ioapligg]

Hello.
Check http://theBest.TV. This is my new pligg video site. I just put it up this weekend. Still a work in progress.

I don't have the pictures from the videos but ultimately I don't need then. Check it out and tell me what do you think.

All critics are welcome.

Regards

[kehnee]

Originally Posted by ioapligg

Hello.
Check http://theBest.TV. This is my new pligg video site. I just put it up this weekend. Still a work in progress.

I don't have the pictures from the videos but ultimately I don't need then. Check it out and tell me what do you think.

All critics are welcome.

Regards

I think it's something similar to your site is what the OP of this post is asking for. I'll also be curious to know if anyone has this mod.

[cruci]

There is some php for doing getting the thumbnail in drupal here - http://drupal.org/node/74779

Basically, you need to talk to the youtube API, like so:
http://www.youtube.com/api2_rest?met...id=N9RFAl48tgI

That returns a bunch of XML, you just need to find the thumbnail url chunk:
<thumbnail_url>http://sjc-static12.sjc.youtube.com/vi/N9RFAl48tgI/2.jpg</thumbnail_url>

I also need this functionality - at least the thumbnail part of it - so would love it if someone could add it to pligg.

[cruci]

Well, since no one was answering my pleas for help in the chatroom, I decided to see what I could do with this. So far so good - if you are running php 5:

PHP Code:

<?php 
  // set the XML file name as a PHP string
  $youtube_XML = "http://www.youtube.com/api2_rest?method=youtube.videos.get_details&dev_id=xxxxxxxxxxxx&video_id=N9RFAl48tgI"; 
  // load the XML file 
  $xml = @simplexml_load_file($youtube_XML) or die ("no file loaded") ; 
  // assign the video thumb element to a string
  $video_thumb = $xml->video_details->thumbnail_url;
  echo "<img src=" . $video_thumb . " />";
?>

the simplexml function makes working with the xml very easy, but is ONLY in php 5.

Copy and paste that into a php file - adding your own youtube developer API ID - and it will return a thumbnail. Now I just need to put it in a module or something. Which brings me back to the question I posted here - passing php variables to my tpl file.

[Simon]

Originally Posted by mhipp

I have searched and have not found a clear answer to the question of a digg.com/videos mod. Is there such an animal for pligg?

The business model of my community revolves around the voting on of videos submitted my members. If there is such a mod that mirrors the functionallity of digg.com/videos, I would be very very grateful for a link.

Have a wonderful day.

EDIT: I'd pay someone to make this mod possible. Do we have any coders for hire here in the Pligg community? Once finished, I'd be happy to release it to the masses. So, if coded it would be best as a module for release to the community.

I tried doing a basic copy of the videos section of digg here. If you click on the video area of the top story at the moment (LOTR), the video should open in a thickbox (light weight version of lightbox). I'll add some basic pointers for what i did:

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.

3.) Created a file called play.php to the root directory. I added an example below, and it needs the link id appended to the url to work:

<?php

include('libs/dbconnect.php');

$connect_video = @mysql_connect(EZSQL_DB_HOST, EZSQL_DB_USER, EZSQL_DB_PASSWORD);
$database_video = @mysql_select_db(EZSQL_DB_NAME, $connect_video);

$id = mysql_real_escape_string(strip_tags($_GET['id']));
$play_query = mysql_query("SELECT link_votes,link_url FROM pligg_links WHERE link_id=\"$id\" AND (link_status='published' OR link_status='queued') AND link_type='1' LIMIT 1");
$play = mysql_fetch_array($play_query);
$play_url = $play['link_url'];
$votes = $play['link_votes'];

$close = @mysql_close($connect_video);
 
?>

<div>
<center>
<object width="425" height="350">
<param name="movie" value="<?php echo $play_url ?>"></param>
<param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param>
<embed src="<?php echo $play_url ?>" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed>
</object>
<br /><br />
<b>Total Votes for this Video:</b> <?php echo $votes ?>
</center>
</div>

4.) Uploaded thickbox, and added the css and js files to the pligg.tpl template. Created a link to play the video (play.php) which included link id, height and width (eg. play.php?id={$link_id}&height=400&width=400), and gave it the attribute class="thickbox". When a user clicks on the link, the video will open in a digg-like window.

5.) Copied the index.php and upcoming.php and renamed to video.php and video-upcoming.php, and did the same with corresponding template files. Created a copy of (and renamed) libs/link_summary.php and edited to only show stories with a link type of 1 - just a simple condition like if($link->type == 1). Then edited the video templates with the renamed files, and that was that.

Demo: http://news.oioplus.com

That's just a basic outline, i'm sure someone can take it and improve upon it.