PHP Melody 1.6 pre and post release talk

[brownbloodz]

The quicktime video is squeezed. And only the last videos listed under "They don't play" doesn't work. It says Embedding disabled by request.

This
http://www.phpmelody.info/apple-trailer ... 65eaf.html
doesn't look right, it's squeezed I think. Should be HD format
Doesn't play at all in favorites player either.
These don't play
http://www.phpmelody.info/feist/my-moon ... b812d.html
http://www.phpmelody.info/jamie-lidell/ ... 80a73.html
http://www.phpmelody.info/jonas-brother ... db148.html
http://www.phpmelody.info/faithless/muh ... c3255.html
and then some...

I think you better rename this to ALPHA instead of beta. There's a lot more to do and fix.

[webdesign]

the Article Feature & Bio is great and the new features
when can we download it??

[muzikia]

I truly hope to be in 2 or 3 weeks....

[mephisto]

Here's what I spent my afternoon on...

A fully redesigned admin section, apple style, one might say

Oh and that's Opera 10, the browser... with a nice skin.

The only way in which you can get rid of the mess in admin is by using icons where it makes sense.
And if there are no comments posted then there's no point in having

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on our screen.
A small change in functions.php fixed that, if the counter is 0 then simply display a -
If there are comments I display the number only, and 2 icons, for edit/view and delete
And so on and so forth...
If you change the date format you win a lot of space as well

[Twizzter]

Has anyone thought of displaying the Videos in categories, rather than listing all the videos in one go?

[brownbloodz]

If you can add more levels of sub categories then videos could be organized. And users would find the videos easily.
Right now you could only add one level of subcategory and no sub category can't be added to that subcategory.
(I am going to be using the script for non-music video site which I need to add more categories to organize the videos.)

The color theme for Admin has to be changed also like Mephisto said earlier. Switch back to the 1.5.3 Admin color scheme.

I don't like the idea of Templates advertisement in my Admin section when I already paid for the script. Plus it serves no purpose, it just sits there. If it was to list the templates we got in the template directory and let us preview each template before applying then I don't mind the advertisement on the bottom.

Overall good job in adding more sources, player settings, and so many small features.

[praveen]

Nice one Andrew
Finally, one might say... looking forward to ths one

btw, how can i add a new source? is it available in this version?

[mephisto]

Since you're still working on admin; please put all submenus of all admin pages in the header file that has the main menu, so we can change/add in one single file, like it's supposed to be when using php.
This is also important for any mod makers. Now you have to unnecessary mess around with so many files or overwrite system files when installing a mod.
Use a variable like you do now for the main menu. eg. $showsubmenu=1 (submenu is for page/section 1 etc)

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if($showsubmenu= '2') {
$generate_sub_menu ="<li><a href="addvideo.php">Add new video</a></li>
<li><a href="import.php">Import from Youtube</a></li>
<li><a href="import_user.php">Import from Youtube User</a></li>
<li><a href="reports.php">Reported Videos</a></li>
<li><a href="approve.php">Approve Videos</a></li>
<li><a href="voth.php">Change video of the day</a></li>"; }

BTW you're using a lot of li's without the necessary ul on admin pages.

EDIT: actually, now that I'm looking at it, you probably don't even need a new submenu variable. $showm will probably be enough. If you want to make the submenu display as "on" and/or "off" then you"ll need an extra variable.

[rizwanrajput]

Gr8 realease andrew! when its going to be release ? Have u added embed video feature ?

[bloon]

Yupe, I thought was the embed function included on 1.5.4?

[Andrew]

Thanks guys for the feedback. Special thanks go to mephisto for the extensive test and feedback.

YES, the 'door is still open' for suggestions and we will apply (hopefully) all of them before releasing 1.5.4. This is why we had this pre-release demo.

Now is the time for change and we're here to do it.

Thanks again, and please please post what you like or dislike in PM 1.5.4.
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1.5.4 is scheduled to be released in the next 10 to 15 days.
The official release date will be posted this week, on Friday.

[muzikia]

Good news Andrew. I decided to put on videohistory.net the 1.5.4 version.

[babacondaa]

whenever download ??

[chatflash]

whenever download ??

1.5.4 is scheduled to be released in the next 10 to 15 days.
The official release date will be posted this week, on Friday.

[Andrew]

I've compiled a list with all the suggestions you guys posted.

There are 29 suggestions for improvements in this thread and I think we can include 80% of them if not more.

I'll keep you guys updated.

In the meantime, if there's anything you consider worth improving please let me know.

Small or big, everything counts for us.

Cheers!