Need to up date this site

[bsnook212]

Hey Matt,

Tigeowners is a good site but should look at updating the look. Check out
www.caymanclub.net

[hoopykat]

Nothing wrong with this site...that other one looks like MySpace for car owners. Bleagh.

Mike

[Matt Garcia]

Hey Matt,

Tigeowners is a good site but should look at updating the look. Check out
www.caymanclub.net

Yes the site does need to be updated. There are some updates to the forum look but I haven't released them to the public yet. I still have some tweaking to do before I think they are ready.

[Domsz06]

the site works great, no point in ruining it. When he has time, matt will hook it up!

[chpthril]

I prefer function over form. This site is easy to nav and easy on the eyes. Not too "busy"

[ragboy]

I prefer function over form. This site is easy to nav and easy on the eyes. Not too "busy"

Agreed. I can even browse and post from my iphone because it isn't so busy.

However, one thing that would be cool...

I know on some forums, and I THINK on vbulletin, you can embed flash video. That would be a VERY cool feature and addon. Just like guys are using photobucket to embed images now, imagine using youtube to embed, or any other hosted FLV.

[spharis]

I can write it or you can find it. It isn't hard to do.

[ragboy]

As far as I know, you can't do it, in vbulletin, unless it is supported in vb. I know how to do it anywhere else.

[spharis]

You have to add it in the backend through one of admin forms.
You add a custom bb code for anything you want to display inline. So for youtube.com vids, you would add yt as the tag, and youtube as the title. It would work like


In the custom bb, you add

<table>
<tr>
<td>
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="{param}" width="400" height="326"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/{param}" /><param name="FlashVars" value="playerMode=embedded" /></object>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

Add css tags as required. If that doesn't work let me know. I can't double check youtube due to websense. NM I'll post back in a bit. The above code is W3C compatible BTW. Some of the embeds are not.

Allowing custom uploads is similar, only you need to add the file allowed in the allowed list. You need to create your own flv player and skin (I have one I wrote based in php that allows streaming), and you will need to embed the file from the folder the files are uploaded to (this requires an additional script that needs to be wirtten and included in the main template). It takes much more effort than the above, but it can be done.

[spharis]

OK the above works and checks valid. If you want I can also give you a couple of scripts that take care of the "click to activate" IE message. It would work sitewide.

[ragboy]

You have to add it in the backend through one of admin forms.
You add a custom bb code for anything you want to display inline. So for youtube.com vids, you would add yt as the tag, and youtube as the title. It would work like


In the custom bb, you add


Add css tags as required. If that doesn't work let me know. I can't double check youtube due to websense. NM I'll post back in a bit. The above code is W3C compatible BTW. Some of the embeds are not.

Allowing custom uploads is similar, only you need to add the file allowed in the allowed list. You need to create your own flv player and skin (I have one I wrote based in php that allows streaming), and you will need to embed the file from the folder the files are uploaded to (this requires an additional script that needs to be wirtten and included in the main template). It takes much more effort than the above, but it can be done.

Correct, thats what I mean, it has to be done on the back end, then we can do it. It would be great to have this for youtube, any flv hosted, and quicktime. If matt was willing, we could get him the code.

[Greg Mallek]

I'm sure glad you guys know what your talking about. At first I read Ragboy saying to "intall flesh video" Had to re-read that one. I should have known better coming from a Garcia.

[spharis]

One really cool benefit is that it will not count against tigeowners.com bandwidth totals (not that it matters with Matt's hosting).

[Matt Garcia]

Im down with including this code on the forums. I haven't tested any of this nor have I read any documentation on it.

spharis do you have a prototype of this code, or is what you posted above what you have so far?

[spharis]

That's it. All you have to do is log in to the back end. Add a custom bb tag. Add "yt" as the tag for yout tube. You can do it for other sites as well, but youtube is about the only one everyone uses. In the code box, paste the above. Should work.

Basically vbulletin uses the php search rewrite function to scan the entered text for tags. When it comes across one, it scans until it finds the next one with a "/". It then parses all the text between the tags and does a find replace. It replaces the text typed by the user with the above code and the text between the tags the user types is pasted in as a variable inplace of the {param} copy. It's pretty simple really.

The only reason the new table is in place is to keep the page from going nuts. The table adds another layer to the current cell in the forum. Keeps things nice and neat.

Get on AIM!