Vidiac vBulletin Integration

[titter]

Vidiac vBulletin Integration v1.0
by titter

--- About ---------------------------------------------------------------
This will integrate the Vidiac Video Portal system into your vBulletin website.

You must signup with www.vidiac.com and follow all of their instructions to setup the CNAME to their site. This will not work if you do not have a Vidiac Video Portal, or if you try to redirect a subdomain. You must use a CNAME record.

--- Features ------------------------------------------------------------
Automatically resizing video section, resizes to the loaded content.

--- Installation --------------------------------------------------------
Follow install.txt found in the zip.

--- Demo ----------------------------------------------------------------
Live demos avaiable at:
http://www.mobmototb.com/forums/videos.php
http://www.boardingscene.com/videos.php

--- Notes ---------------------------------------------------------------
This will only work if you have your Vidiac setup with a CNAME record from your domain. All browsers block javascript cross-domain scripting unless you have the DOM reference placed in both pages. It is very important that your update the document.domain reference with your correct domain information, and it is placed both in your vidiac_videobits template, as well as the skin settings in your Vidiac portal.

This has been tested in FireFox and Internet Explorer, not tested in any other browsers.

--- Copyright -----------------------------------------------------------
All code in distributed in this zip is ©2006 titter, with the following exceptions:
dynifs.js - Credits within.

For more information about the Vidiac Video Portal visit, www.vidiac.com

[Cky47]

Can you send me a pm... its not even working the slightest bit. I installed it correct and edited my templates, but nothing works. It jsut shows a blank screen at www.boardingscene.com/videos.php

It is set on a CNAME... here is the normal site http://videos.boardingscene.com

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

VERY interesting. bookmarked.

any testing with 3.6 yet?

[Cky47]

I am still waiting for the pm...

Did you tell Adam Bruce Yet? HE has been wanting to develope this for a while but hasnt had the time. If this works... it could be a huge change in his company vidiac and vbulletin all together.

[titter]

Files are updated, and PM has been sent. I included the wrong videos.php file in the zip. All is well now.

I posted on the vidiac forums about this, they replied keep them updated. Should work now without a hitch. Make sure you added the documnet.domain script on both the template, and vidiac admin panel! that is the most crucial step ... lol after you fix my mistake DOH!

As far as 3.6 testing goes I have not tested it on 3.6 ... nor have I looked at the system for 3.6. I will mess with that sometime during the next week.

[Cky47]

Lmao... no problem at all, you dont realize how much work you saved me by doing this.

Thanks a TON!

Your my hero lol...

Oh yeah, if you guys wanna check it out http://www.boardingscene.com/videos.php

Much gratefulness for Adam Bruce (Vidiac Owner), His Staff, and Titter

If you guys havent already sign up for his service!

www.vidiac.com

Its free, and you cant beat it. They handle everything for you, you set up a CNAME and your done! Your own video site...

I can help anyone that needs help, I was one of Adam's earlier members.

[titter]

Very nice! I like your site a lot, looks like a great boarding community. Also I agree, ls1tech.com and streetfire.net always got me interested in how it was done ... now I know, and I did it for our local car club, and made this plugin just because I didnt see it anywhere lol.

[Allan]

Very nice, congrats ;)

Click Install ;)

[Barakat]

thanks ....

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

hmm... what if you want to put something else besides the Adsense next to the video section? is that possible? (and I assume we can use our own adsense code if we choose?)

[threat]

Can members upload also? Or only you and its just for viewing? Where do I upload the files in the upload folder? In the root or the forum root? Sorry Im new,,,oh yeah do I have to have a subdomain?

what does this mean? DNS videos.gixxerplanet.com is not pointed to vidiac.com

I put the redirect for the subdomain to point to vidiac.com when you go to www.videos.gixxerplanet.com it redirects to vidiac.com


Hmmm read on there I need to contact my hosting to have them point the DNS to vidiac.com

[The Realist]

Installed but I dont see anything in the admin section to adminsiter anything and the video page is white?

Any ideas?

[threat]

i had to sign up to vidiac.com and the admin section he was talking about was in there

[The Realist]

Thanks.

[The Realist]

There is a problem with the domain name you supplied. It is not pointed to vidiac.com

I added a cname so that video.xxxx.com points to the vidiac.com domain and it still will not let me sign up?

[PabloAM]

Thanks INSTALLED :D

[PabloAM]

Have a problem :(

In firefox all OK, but in Internet explorer, Don´t see!!

URL: http://www.xboxers360.net/videos.php

My config:

<script type="text/javascript">
document.domain = "xboxers360.net";
</script>

<iframe width="100%" height="500"
id="videoframe" name="videoframe"
src="http://videos.xboxers360.net"
onload="DYNIFS.resize('videoframe')"
scrolling="no"
frameborder="0"
style="width:100%;height:500px;border:0px;">
Sorry, your browser doesn't seem to support IFrames!
</iframe>

3.) Under the Site Skin (Look and Feel) section.

Add this script to the top of your pre-portal code:
<script type="text/javascript">
document.domain = "xboxers360.net";
</script>

What´s then problem??

Please help me

[Snake]

Thank you very much! This is what I've been looking for ages go! :D

[PabloAM]

Thank you very much! This is what I've been looking for ages go! :D

Please. You are pointed subdomain to vidiac.com??

Helpme

[Cky47]

Calm down guys lol... Now who all needs help?

As for the white video layout you have to login to your admin section with your email and then go to the look and feel section... there you can edit your css and template.

And no... you can not remove the ads, that is what help Adam pay for the servers and hosting your videos.

[Cky47]

I also wanted to point out to your guys, that you should update the player options as well. This is what my player looks like in my myspace.

http://www.myspace.com/cky47

Users can get the code for that player and more when they watch the videos.

Notice how they can see info on the video that the users typed and see more videos all from that one player. They did a really good job on this feature.

[PabloAM]

Help Cky47

Have a problem

In firefox all OK, but in Internet explorer, Don´t see!!

URL: http://www.xboxers360.net/videos.php

My config:

<script type="text/javascript">
document.domain = "xboxers360.net";
</script>

<iframe width="100%" height="500"
id="videoframe" name="videoframe"
src="http://videos.xboxers360.net"
onload="DYNIFS.resize('videoframe')"
scrolling="no"
frameborder="0"
style="width:100%;height:500px;border:0px;">
Sorry, your browser doesn't seem to support IFrames!
</iframe>

3.) Under the Site Skin (Look and Feel) section.

Add this script to the top of your pre-portal code:
<script type="text/javascript">
document.domain = "xboxers360.net";
</script>

What´s then problem??

[Cky47]

The only problem I noticd beside the users not being integrated... is that it uses a iframe, and now when users try to link to the page, they are instead linking to the videos page. Also if they use the thumbnail feature like this...

http://thumbs.vidiac.com/e0123d41-5e99-4ea8-be5b-f9a1e1520f3f.jpg (http://videos.boardingscene.com/video/e0123d41-5e99-4ea8-be5b-f9a1e1520f3f.htm)Click here to see Video (http://videos.boardingscene.com/video/e0123d41-5e99-4ea8-be5b-f9a1e1520f3f.htm)

It links outsidethe vbulletin site, and now there is no link back to your site, unless you add one.

Maybe me and you can think of something titter... I would love to help.

[Cky47]

Pablo did you fix it? It is working for me in IE.

[PabloAM]

Pablo did you fix it? It is working for me in IE.

No.

My problem with IE:

http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/2387/ie7nn.th.jpg (http://img46.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ie7nn.jpg)

My problem with FireFox:

http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/5411/firefox8yb.th.jpg (http://img46.imageshack.us/my.php?image=firefox8yb.jpg)

Help me.

CONFIG:

Primary Address (URL) of your Vidiac site: xboxers360.vidiac.com

<script type="text/javascript">
document.domain = "xboxers360.net";
</script>

<iframe width="100%" height="500"
id="videoframe" name="videoframe"
src="http://xboxers360.vidiac.com"
onload="DYNIFS.resize('videoframe')"
scrolling="no"
frameborder="0"
style="width:100%;height:500px;border:0px;">
Sorry, your browser doesn't seem to support IFrames!
</iframe>

3.) Under the Site Skin (Look and Feel) section.

Add this script to the top of your pre-portal code:
<script type="text/javascript">
document.domain = "xboxers360.net";
</script>

[Cky47]

First of all your not supposed to put
"Add this script to the top of your pre-portal code:"
In your pre portal section... leave that out.

But I am telling you it is working fine for me... which makes me want to say that you have some type of spam/ad blocker/ or some other plugin installed interfering.

Also what does your site look like normally not integrated...

I cant read spanish as well lol

[PabloAM]

First of all your not supposed to put
"Add this script to the top of your pre-portal code:"
In your pre portal section... leave that out.

But I am telling you it is working fine for me... which makes me want to say that you have some type of spam/ad blocker/ or some other plugin installed interfering.

Also what does your site look like normally not integrated...

I cant read spanish as well lol

Your supposed good LOL.

Who redirect to http://videos.boardingscene.com/ ???

Help please

[Cky47]

You mean how did I redirect to it?

You have to set up the CNAME record.

[titter]

Pablo try adding this to both the template, and the site skin look and feel:



Code:
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Code is only visible to licensed users, and only when logged into the forums.
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-----------------------------------------------------------------------

As far as using your own ads, you cannot. That is part of the Vidiac Video Portal, and why it is free for us to use. Goto www.vidiac.com for any questions or information about the Vidiac portal itself.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Also yes if you do not have access to setup CNAME redirects your hosting company will do it for you. This will not work otherwise.

[threat]

what link do i tell my hosting compnay to reidirect too?

also what is CNAME?

I installed it all, set up subdomain, its just the cname thing is confusing to me

[PabloAM]

The CNAME is configured in CPANEL??

I redirected videos.xboxers360.net to vidiac.com
ok??

[threat]

i set up a subdomain now www.videos.gixxerplanet.com I'm looking in my cpanel now for this cname option.



I cant find, in the subdomain there is a place it askes me to place a link in if I want that subdomain to point to another link. is that the 1?

[Cky47]

It is not a cpanel option, and it IS NOT A SUBDOMAIN lol. YOu guys dont listen at all do you?

IT IS A CNAME...

It is a DNS setting that you or your hosting provider must change.

[threat]

Well sorry Im trying to learn. I read over and over again. I'm trying to find where i change it at or find this dns option. and what do I tell them if i get them on the phone?

[threat]

ok what does this mean?

Current Primary Address Status: The requested name is valid, but no data of the requested type was found

[titter]

Yes do not setup a subdomain. You must contact your hosting company, and have them setup the CNAME record for you. Unless you have access to it yourself. Tell them you need a CNAME record to point from videos.yourdomain.com to vidiac.com (not www.vidiac.com, nor the ip address to their site) They should be able to help you.

More information about CNAME records can be found on the Vidiac website. I will not support Vidiac, they have thier own site, and forums to help you setup the Vidiac Video Portal.

http://www.vidiac.com/Installationfaq.aspx#cname

[Cky47]

Yeah guys... it clearly states it when you sign up, so please do not bring those questions here. If you dont know what you are doing... well then maybe you shouldnt be doing it.

[threat]

Well I'm trying to learn ok, but either way I will figure this out.

[Cky47]

Make a thread on there forum...

[threat]

No need to , waiting on host to make the change for me then I should be good to go

[titter]

Good to hear, its all a learning process for some. Let me know when you get it working :] then click install!

[titter]

Update to plugin has been uploaded.

[The Realist]

Installed and setup cname and settings via vidiac. When I visit my video link, which I have edited due to a none standard template which is:

<a href="videos.php$session[sessionurl_q]"><img src="{IF}/video.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a> &nbsp;

Does that link look ok?

But the main problem is, when I use my IE6 the page starts to load and then closes up?

Any ideas.

Laters

[thumbsucker]

It seems like anyone can upload a video as guest?

What exactly does the Vbulletin integration do?

[threat]

Hey I got the cname set up and i get a error on the global when I click the video link. Do I upload the videos.php and js folder to the root?

[threat]

This is error i get

Warning: main(./global.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/gixxerpl/public_html/videos.php on line 40

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required './global.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/gixxerpl/public_html/videos.php on line 40

[threat]

Ok I think it worked

http://www.gixxerplanet.com/home/videos.php?

Am I right? I uploaded the video.php into the forum root

Also its does not work in IE for me, and the colors are not changing at all when I want it to be a black background

[titter]

videos.php goes to the root, the js file goes into the js folder. if you extract the zip using folder names, you will see the file structure.

[threat]

Where do I go to hange the background? I want black instead of white. I changed the css on the admin panel of vidiac but nothing shows the changes. Anyone want to give me there code?

[titter]

You also never added the java script to the vidiac section as well.

[threat]

What do you mean, I uploaded the JS Folder.

[titter]

You also have to add the javascript <script> to your templates on Vidiac.

[Warlock40]

Same problem with IE loads but then all disappears.

As a matter of fact all but the two examples do the same thing in IE

[Cky47]

Mine is fine... in fact I am installing 3.6 now and it still works fine.

[Warlock40]

gggrreaaat for you. Yet that doesnt help. There is a problem and it is not just my machine. I've had members inform me that it works fine on netscape as well but none work in an EI environment. So if the examples in the listing work but others do not..something is different? help would be nice.

[Warlock40]

Please look at my site then and tell me what happens in IE with yours. You'll see for a brief second the entire page will be seen then it disappears. Something before the page finishes loading is causing an error. I tried setting static pixel values to the width and heights just in case but nothing seems to change it.

www.rchobbies.ca/forum/videos.php

[titter]

Code:
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Code is only visible to licensed users, and only when logged into the forums.
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needs to be:



Code:
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Code is only visible to licensed users, and only when logged into the forums.
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in both the vidiac, and vb templates. should fix it, I installed this on another forum last night, worked fine.

I cannot stress enough how important getting this part of the code right is! If this is incorrect, it will not work at all.

[oberheimhaven]

This rocks thanks for the great hack make sure you guys sign up before install. This was the easiest hack I have every dealt with zero tolerance.
works with firefox and IE 7.0

Thanks Mates!!:banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:

Mark Anthony
Musicians Quarters!!!!

Only one minor probelm the lil icon to play vid is X'ed broken link other than that all is go any help would be greatly appreciated!!

Never mind has been corrected man this was easy!!!

[titter]

It is not hard, but a little coding knowledge is needed! Was my first hack, tried to make it as easy as I could! I think an admincp section would really make this even easier, and keep people away from editing templates. All in due time!

[Warlock40]

I'm nuts..sorry titter...INSTALLED..

I would have sworn I tried that previously..but its working...and working awesome!!!! great hack....lovin it

[Cky47]

So titter... we any closer to gettign this fully integrated? I havent been able to contact adam.

[calgdsm]

Clicks Install!! Hope it works!!

[Cky47]

Anymore progress? I really want to get this done titter.

[MaLTRaiN]

Same problem with IE and Opera. I've done everything... any solution?

[MaLTRaiN]

This forum... cero problem...

http://www.boardingscene.com/videos.php

Why??? :S

[Cky47]

Cause my site is awsome?

[MaLTRaiN]

Cause' you're cheating... :P

Tell the trick... ;)

[titter]

what is the problem?

[MaLTRaiN]

No problem... I finally made a page with my VBAdvanced and put the vidiac in a iframe and everything is perfect now... :)

[VBUsers]

will this be ported to 3.6.0??

[titter]

as soon as i install 3.6 on a forum later next week, it will make the 3.6 port ... should be good to go without many if any changes.

[Cky47]

Its already 3.6 compatible.

www.boardingscene.com

Unless like I said above... maybe my sites cheating lol

[SVT242]

ttt any progress on getting this mod updated for 3.6.1? :)

[SVT242]

ttt any progress on getting this mod updated for 3.6.1? :)


TTT :)

[SVT242]

To The Top :d

[meissenation]

Make sure ya moderate the videos on time, if you don't apparently Vidiac moderates the video and will replace it with a "This video is unsuitable or it just sucks" even though it was 100% suitable and there was nothing wrong with it. Way to make the admin of the site look like a jackass.

[rx_1badbird]

We just upgraded and the videos work with no problem.
Justin (Titter) is my admin for +++++ Motorsports Racing.

[SVT242]

is this mod version 3.6.4 compliant?

[titter]

yes. works fine with 3.6.4.

[titter]

Currently working on a new system that will better integrate this with the forum. More news to come soon ... this should end up being a good update.