Auto-Video Site Using Wordpress
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thanks very much for this very very cool- just 'purchased' (dunno if you can even call it that).
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Aequitas (or anyone else)- quick question for you.
Manually added a video and having the following issue- hoping you could quickly let me know if this is something setting-wise within the plugin or perhaps my theme/css.
The pulled youtube description isn't breaking as shown in this image and starting on the left- but instead directly to the right of hte video. Any thoughts?
Thanks
Manually added a video and having the following issue- hoping you could quickly let me know if this is something setting-wise within the plugin or perhaps my theme/css.
The pulled youtube description isn't breaking as shown in this image and starting on the left- but instead directly to the right of hte video. Any thoughts?
Thanks
Aequitas (or anyone else)- quick question for you.
Manually added a video and having the following issue- hoping you could quickly let me know if this is something setting-wise within the plugin or perhaps my theme/css.
The pulled youtube description isn't breaking as shown in this image and starting on the left- but instead directly to the right of hte video. Any thoughts?
Thanks
This is a bug with the software, I actually just fixed it today, and later tonight (Well most likely tomorrow cause I'm tired as fuck after the night I had - lets just say I didn't get home til 8am after a long night out.
Anyway today I took care of the majority of the updates I am long overdue for and tomorrow I'm going to finish up the updates for the automation feature then post back here when they are all out.
I basically covered the following in the updates.
1) Cleaned up the code source a lot so you can understand it a lot better if you need to change something.
2) Fixed all the bugs people have reported in this thread, in my Private Messages, and a few other little things I noticed about it.
3) Added more functionality into the video search, no longer will you see videos which can't be played because they are unable to be embeded without permission, you can search videos in specific youtube categories, and you can now order your search results by relevance, viewcount, rating, ect....
4) I removed the LiveVideo section completely because its not valid to keep it, YouTube is the best resource to deal with for so many reasons, the weight of the LiveVideo just wasen't holding up.
5) Stabalized it a lot more which means now it should work even if you can't use file_get_contents, if you can't use that function like some have reported there is now a CURL alternative which automatically gets utalized if file_get_contents isn't allowed by your host, you don't need to do anything extra its all handled for you.
There are a few other things I've updated as well but they are minor and more code specific.
In a update down the road I'm going to build a few custom flash players to supply with the plugin so you won't have to use all the stock YouTube players, you can have a much more unique look instead of having your sites filled with blatent obvious youtube videos.
If I have time tomorrow I'm going to include an video sitemap feature, you won't need to do anything with it, it will be automatic but it will enable you to get much more of our posts indexed for some additional traffic.
Oh I also removed the suggestion feature box, that was pretty useless as well, so that also helps clean it up a bunch.
Thanks so much for the response- glad to know it's not me that's the problem (9 times out of 10 it's me! 
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In the meantime I won't sit here trying to fix and will get this massively deployed. Again thank you - fantastic plugin/support!
).In the meantime I won't sit here trying to fix and will get this massively deployed. Again thank you - fantastic plugin/support!
I've Got An UPDATE!
Hey everyone,
I got the update out for you all to download, here is a bit of the changes made - PLEASE READ THIS POST IN FULL
UPDATE CHANGES
1) Cleaned up the code source a lot so you can understand it a lot better if you need to change something.
2) Removed 2 database tables and edited another, don't worry when you install the new version your database tables, ect... for the plugin will be automatically updated.
3) Fixed the bugs people have reported in this thread, in my Private Messages, and a few other little things I noticed about it.
4) Added more functionality into the video search, no longer will you see videos which can't be played because they are unable to be embeded without permission, you can search videos in specific youtube categories, and you can now order your search results by relevance, viewcount, rating, ect....
5) I removed the LiveVideo section completely because its not valid to keep it, YouTube is the best resource to deal with for so many reasons, the weight of the LiveVideo just wasen't holding up.
6) Stabalized it a lot more which means now it should work even if you can't use file_get_contents, if you can't use that function like some have reported there is now a CURL alternative which automatically gets utalized if file_get_contents isn't allowed by your host, you don't need to do anything extra its all handled for you.
FUTURE UPDATES
1) Easy to use video sitemap generator which will get you some extra and free traffic.
2) Going to create a few generic flash players you can use to play the YouTube videos on your site with so you don't have to continually use the YouTube stock player.
3) Going to clean up a few more things in the code to make it easier to understand and edit, by doing this it should help increase the speed of the script some more.
THINGS TO KNOW
Basically there is only one thing I want to make aware and that deals with the automation feature, it was brought to my attention that if you and your competitor are both using this script or if someone wants to be malicious and knows you use the script then they could easily run your automate file for you which would increasing your video count to a large amount, which may not be what you wanted, basically they can flood your site.
Anyway to fix this simply rename the automate.php file to something unique and then call it, leave it in the same folder but just rename it to whatever you want.
Something like 25644563244563.php or something that someone would never be able to guess.
Once you do that instead of calling automate.php file from your cron just call the new file name 25644563244563.php file.
This automate.php file can be named anything you want and the more unique it is the more secure it'll be.
CAN SOMEONE REPORT ON THE FOLLOWING THINGS
Since I'm limited to what I can test - mainly since my hosting doesn't have the same limitations as others around here do I would be extremely happy if we could all report back here or PM about the following.
1) If someone was previously having an issue with allow_fopen this should no longer be an issue because it automatically uses a CURL alternative but I need someone to report on this and make sure its working for them now.
2) There was a conflict with the PHPBAY plugin, I don't have that plug so I can't test fully but based upon the descriptions of others I'm pretty sure it was a simply conflict, which should no longer exist. But if someone can test it out with PHPBay and let me know if they play nice that would be great.
If they don't I'll have to find a copy of it and try to determine why they hate each other.
Well shit I had a couple other things I wanted others to test out across various hosts but I can't remember them at the moment, but basically if you see any more bugs or are having any issues with it at all please report them to me so I can work on fixing them.
HOW TO GET THE NEW UPDATE
1) Re-Pay the dollar from the website if you want to or if you haven't done so in the past.
2) If I gave you the plug for free toss me another PM or if your a valid member around here toss me a PM and I'll give you the download link to the update.
UPGRADE INSTRUCTIONS
1) Deactivate the RealVMS plugin.
2) Remove all the RealVMS files from your server.
3) Upload the new files to your server (Remove the old ones first don't just overwrite or you'll be left with files that do jack shit).
3) Re-Activate The Plugin.
Hey everyone,
I got the update out for you all to download, here is a bit of the changes made - PLEASE READ THIS POST IN FULL
UPDATE CHANGES
1) Cleaned up the code source a lot so you can understand it a lot better if you need to change something.
2) Removed 2 database tables and edited another, don't worry when you install the new version your database tables, ect... for the plugin will be automatically updated.
3) Fixed the bugs people have reported in this thread, in my Private Messages, and a few other little things I noticed about it.
4) Added more functionality into the video search, no longer will you see videos which can't be played because they are unable to be embeded without permission, you can search videos in specific youtube categories, and you can now order your search results by relevance, viewcount, rating, ect....
5) I removed the LiveVideo section completely because its not valid to keep it, YouTube is the best resource to deal with for so many reasons, the weight of the LiveVideo just wasen't holding up.
6) Stabalized it a lot more which means now it should work even if you can't use file_get_contents, if you can't use that function like some have reported there is now a CURL alternative which automatically gets utalized if file_get_contents isn't allowed by your host, you don't need to do anything extra its all handled for you.
FUTURE UPDATES
1) Easy to use video sitemap generator which will get you some extra and free traffic.
2) Going to create a few generic flash players you can use to play the YouTube videos on your site with so you don't have to continually use the YouTube stock player.
3) Going to clean up a few more things in the code to make it easier to understand and edit, by doing this it should help increase the speed of the script some more.
THINGS TO KNOW
Basically there is only one thing I want to make aware and that deals with the automation feature, it was brought to my attention that if you and your competitor are both using this script or if someone wants to be malicious and knows you use the script then they could easily run your automate file for you which would increasing your video count to a large amount, which may not be what you wanted, basically they can flood your site.
Anyway to fix this simply rename the automate.php file to something unique and then call it, leave it in the same folder but just rename it to whatever you want.
Something like 25644563244563.php or something that someone would never be able to guess.
Once you do that instead of calling automate.php file from your cron just call the new file name 25644563244563.php file.
This automate.php file can be named anything you want and the more unique it is the more secure it'll be.
CAN SOMEONE REPORT ON THE FOLLOWING THINGS
Since I'm limited to what I can test - mainly since my hosting doesn't have the same limitations as others around here do I would be extremely happy if we could all report back here or PM about the following.
1) If someone was previously having an issue with allow_fopen this should no longer be an issue because it automatically uses a CURL alternative but I need someone to report on this and make sure its working for them now.
2) There was a conflict with the PHPBAY plugin, I don't have that plug so I can't test fully but based upon the descriptions of others I'm pretty sure it was a simply conflict, which should no longer exist. But if someone can test it out with PHPBay and let me know if they play nice that would be great.
If they don't I'll have to find a copy of it and try to determine why they hate each other.
Well shit I had a couple other things I wanted others to test out across various hosts but I can't remember them at the moment, but basically if you see any more bugs or are having any issues with it at all please report them to me so I can work on fixing them.
HOW TO GET THE NEW UPDATE
1) Re-Pay the dollar from the website if you want to or if you haven't done so in the past.
2) If I gave you the plug for free toss me another PM or if your a valid member around here toss me a PM and I'll give you the download link to the update.
UPGRADE INSTRUCTIONS
1) Deactivate the RealVMS plugin.
2) Remove all the RealVMS files from your server.
3) Upload the new files to your server (Remove the old ones first don't just overwrite or you'll be left with files that do jack shit).
3) Re-Activate The Plugin.
I'm having a couple issues with the old, free version. I just bought the new fancied up high-roller $1 version. If I Have any troubles with it I'll hit you up Aequitas.
Thanks for the plug-in.
Thanks for the plug-in.
i got in on the first freebies and am a valid member 
but i'll be ponying up the $1 at the site: http://www.realvms.com
great plugin!
but i'll be ponying up the $1 at the site: http://www.realvms.comgreat plugin!
hmm, anyone else having problems with the latest version ?
For some reason when i add new "elements" to the list of items be processed by automate.php it just doesnt work... my list stays empty so there is no video being added automatically.
Edit : great plugin btw !
For some reason when i add new "elements" to the list of items be processed by automate.php it just doesnt work... my list stays empty so there is no video being added automatically.
Edit : great plugin btw !
Same as rasta_cook, here. Fill out the fields, hit "post", get "no current elements".
Also no phpbay functionality(although I can make it work by deactivate phpbay, activate RealVMS, add vid(s), deactivate VMS, reactivate phpBay & listings show.
No comments added using manual settings(had that same problem with 1st iteration).
Same for both wp 2.6/2.7 on shared hosting with php4.4.9
I'm checking out some other shared hosting now...
Also no phpbay functionality(although I can make it work by deactivate phpbay, activate RealVMS, add vid(s), deactivate VMS, reactivate phpBay & listings show.
No comments added using manual settings(had that same problem with 1st iteration).
Same for both wp 2.6/2.7 on shared hosting with php4.4.9
I'm checking out some other shared hosting now...
Oops! Shoulda realized sooner you have to strip the realvms_automate & realvms_options tables out of the dbase along with dumping the old files...new code couldn't write to the old tables.
That was the problem with automatic settings not showing up.
Usually something numb like that.
That was the problem with automatic settings not showing up.
Usually something numb like that.
Which is why I said de-activate the plugin, upload the new files then re-activate dont just upload the new files.
I put code in there that will automatically fix the database structure upon re-activation.
Aequitas, i did what you said, deactivated plugin, deleted files, upload new files, activate plugin and i had that problem anyways... i didnt go in phpmyadmin yet but ill check it out tonight
Which is why I said de-activate the plugin...
Yeah, which is what I do whenever I upgrade plugins across numerous installations.
Though I'm sure you meant to rewrite the _automate & _options tables to accomodate the changed headings, it didn't happen, hence the need to wipe the tables manually before a fresh install and activation.
Maybe I'll see what I can do about the lack of comments in manual mode and the phpbay functionality. Kind of a pain having to deactivate this, reactivate that.
And, uhhh, the "numb" comment was in regards to my taking so long to track the culprit down, not you or your software, just to be clear.
Took me most of the day to track down a missing space in some of my own code and I always feel like an idiot after whatever is boogered shows up.:Yahoo_29:
Yeah, which is what I do whenever I upgrade plugins across numerous installations.
Though I'm sure you meant to rewrite the _automate & _options tables to accomodate the changed headings, it didn't happen, hence the need to wipe the tables manually before a fresh install and activation.
Maybe I'll see what I can do about the lack of comments in manual mode and the phpbay functionality. Kind of a pain having to deactivate this, reactivate that.
And, uhhh, the "numb" comment was in regards to my taking so long to track the culprit down, not you or your software, just to be clear.
Took me most of the day to track down a missing space in some of my own code and I always feel like an idiot after whatever is boogered shows up.:Yahoo_29:
I get the following error. What should the permissions be?
/bin/sh: /home/****/public_html/****/wp-content/plugins/RealVMS/automate.php: Permission denied
/bin/sh: /home/****/public_html/****/wp-content/plugins/RealVMS/automate.php: Permission denied
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