Changelog
Release Notes
PHP Melody v2.6. Released February 16, 2016
PHP Melody v2.6
February 16, 2016
New Features
- Automated Jobs: Automatically import and check remote videos from YouTube, Vimeo and DailyMotion.
- User Channels: Revamped user profiles with extra features and improved UI. New sub-features include:
- Channel Cover Image (easy uploading via Ajax)
- Channel Profile Image (easy uploading via Ajax)
- Marking channels/users as 'Verified'.
- Users can edit/delete their own videos.
- Improved search functionality. Ability to navigate live search results with the up/down keys.
- MySQL caching of repeat queries resulting in improved overall performance (especially for websites with large databases).
- SSL support out of the box.
- Emoji support within comments and other text areas.
- Ability to restore deleted videos. PHP Melody now uses a 'Trash' which makes it easy to recover deleted videos.
- In-player social sharing support for Video JS (Facebook & Twitter).
Enhancements
- Better vertical logo image positioning.
- Floating ads are no longer resolution dependent.
- In-player sharing support for JW Player 7.
- Improved JW Player 6 control bar problem.
- Support for video playback on mobile devices on the desktop/default theme. Great for visitors with tablet devices.
Bugs Fixed
Front-end
- Fixed title issue in the search results page.
- Fixed “Top Videos” page sorting problem (i.e. invalid links).
- Fixed problem with unresponsive “Follow/Subscribe” buttons in the 'Social Module'.
- Fixed problem with the “Suggest video” page (affecting some video sources).
- Fixed support for Vbox7 (video source) in the Video JS player.
Back-end
- Fixed sitemap generator issue where it stopped while generating large sitemaps.
- Fixed layout issue on the import results pages (specific resolutions).
- Fixed SSL connection issue with the “Facebook” source.
- Fixed problem in auto-approving videos; thumbnails were not always saved locally.
- Fixed issue with removing disabled “pre-roll static ads”.
- Fixed problem related to missing hyphen in the simplified 'Add Category' form (on edit/modify pages).
- Fixed issue with editing audio (.mp3) entries files.