Adding custom flv player to AttachMax

Its pretty simple to add and use custom player with AttachMax. I'll explain it on Jeroen Wijering's player example (we are using it on AttachMax.com now).

At first, please download Jeroen player and copy mediaplayer.swf to players/amJeroenPlayer/mediaplayer.swf and add bll/Player/Players/amJeroenPlayer.php file with following content:

<?php
class amJeroenPlayer extends amPlayer
{
    var $_sourcePath;

    function amJeroenPlayer()
    {
        parent::amPlayer();
        $this->setSourcePath(AM_PLAYER_DIR . '/amJeroenPlayer/' . 
            'mediaplayer.swf');
    }

    function getAutoPlayString ()
    {
        return $this->getAutoPlay() ? 'true' : 'false';
    }

    function getSourcePath()
    {
        return $this->_sourcePath;
    }

    function setSourcePath($value)
    {
        $this->_sourcePath = $value;
    }

    function getCustomParams()
    {
        return isset($GLOBALS[__CLASS__ . '_customParams']) ?
          $GLOBALS[__CLASS__ . '_customParams'] : array();
    }

    function setCustomParams($params)
    {
        $GLOBALS[__CLASS__ . '_customParams'] = $params;
    }

    function getHtml()
    {
        $p = amJeroenPlayer::getCustomParams();

        $flashVarsString = "file=" . $this->getVideoUrl();
        if (isset($p['FlashVars']))
        {
            foreach ($p['FlashVars'] as $k => $v)
            {
                $flashVarsString .= "&$k=$v";
            }
        }
        $flashVarsString .= '&autostart=' . $this->getAutoPlayString();

        $embedString = '';
        if (isset($p['embed']))
        {
            foreach ($p['embed'] as $k => $v)
            {
                $embedString .= " $k=\"$v\"";
            }
        }
        $embedString = '<embed src="' . $this->getSourcePath() .
            '" FlashVars="' . $flashVarsString . '" width="' .
            $this->getWidth() .
            '" height="' . $this->getHeight() . '" ' .
            $embedString . '>';

        return $embedString;
    }

}

Player class is ready, only few changes remained.

Open bll/Player/amPlayerFactory.php, find "function getExtensionsToPlayers()" and change "'flv' => 'amFlvPlayer'" to 'flv' => 'amJeroenPlayer'" under it. Then open configPlayers.php file and add:

amJeroenPlayer::setCustomParams(
    array(
       'embed' => array(
            'type' => 'application/x-shockwave-flash',
            'pluginspage' => 'http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer'
        ),

        'FlashVars' => array(
        )

    )
);

Jeroen player is ready to use now. To revert old player back you need to change single line in bll/Player/amPlayerFactory.php file, as we did for Jeroen player before.

For other, than Jeroen, flv player you can use same code with minor changes.

Please let me know, if you have any questions.

Admin Categories

Adding, Changing & Rss Feeds for Categories

Adding Categories
1) Log into admin - http://yourdomain.com/admin
2) Click on Rss Categories Link

3) Below where it says "Add new category:"
Type in the name of your category and then click Submit.
Your Category will now be displayed in 5 locations
- In Admin
- Homepage Categories
- List files
- Upload Forum
- Advertise.php


Changing Categories
1) Whilst still logged into Admin Category Section
Click on edit link of your chosen cat.
You will now have the option to change cat name.
Once completed click Submit.

1a) Deleting categories
On the row of your chosen category, click delete to remove the category


Manually Adding an Rss Feed
1) Click on the name of your category, via the hyperlink. i.e Sport
2) New Page will be displayed with
Add new feed to category:
Type in a valid Rss Feed Url, usually ending with .xml extension.

3) New Page will pop up listing the different news items, to choose one, click on the radio button,
and below set how long you would like the rss feed to be shown for.
Optionally type in a number between 0-100 in Probability field.
This setting will determin how often your feed will show up, if there is more than one feed of the same category.
When finished setting these figures, Submit.

Admin Config Section

This Book will explain, what each feature does in the admin config section.

From domain names to Uploading Settings.

Approve Rss Feeds

Approve RSS

When users Purchase Rss Feeds via
http://yourdomain.com/advertise.php

You will then have the ability to Approve or Disapprove the Rss Feeds via admin.
Firstly it will show relevant information such as:
- Category chosen
- If payment was made
- Date Submitted
- Title of the Feed
- Full Passage of the feed
- Link to the Rss Feed

Then you will be able to approve the Rss Feed, which will then be submitted into the chosen category section for that feed.

Changing Contact Email

Changing Flash Player Text

Attachmax v2.0.2

Attachmax v2.1.0

To change player pop up text, you can edit configPlayers.php file, find line with
'flvTitle' => 'AttachMax.com'
and change 'AttachMax.com' to your title.

Convert wmv files Automatically

You can set up your crontab to automatically, convert your wmv files.

1)Set up crontab
#crontab -e

Using your editor add this lines

*/10 * * * * /usr/bin/lynx -source http://www.yourdomain.com/convert_wmv.php

Where yourdomain.com is the url of your where your script is installed.

This will set up your script to run the conversion script if needed every 10 minutes.

To manually run this command anytime, just type in your browser - http://www.yourdomain.com/convert_wmv.php

Encoding Video with set Quality Levels

1) Accessing Conversion File
Go to your Slave Folder and edit index.php

//Find this Code and change

exec(FFMPEG . " -i ".$root.$filesdir.$storage_filename." -ar 44100 ".$root.$filesdir.$storage_filename.".flv");

//and Replace it with this

exec(FFMPEG . " -i ".$root.$filesdir.$storage_filename." -s 480x360 -b 750k -ar 44100 ".$root.$filesdir.$storage_filename.".flv");

Where -b = The Bitrate of the Video
750k is just a good template the produces fair quality video for good size ratio, how high you would like the quality is up to you.
i.e 2000k is very good quality, but produces big file sizes
200k is poor quality but produces small File sizes

Where -s = the Size of the Video
Videos are encoded at all sorts of resolutions, so here you can choose a figure that you would like the videos to be encoded at.

Much more FFMPEG encoding Guides and options are available at
http://howto-pages.org/ffmpeg/
http://www.penguin-soft.com/penguin/man/1/ffmpeg.html

Finding and setting FFMPEG location

Finding out Location of FFMPEG and changing location via admin Unless your Host has provided you with instructions to the location of ffmpeg, you will need to find this yourself, to do this 1) Log into server   2) Type in  #updatedb    3)  #which ffmpeg Now assuming you've already completed installation, and you would like to edit location, this can be done via going into http://yourdomain/admin and into the server Section. There you will see the FFMPEG value, change that to the location found in 3) If you have already done this and ffmpeg is still isnt converting videos then verify ffmpeg is installed correctly by running this command inside your fffmpeg directory ffmpeg -i yourmoviefile.ext -s 480x360 -b 700k -ar 44100 outputfile.flv If you dont get sufficient output then your ffmpeg isnt installed correctly.

Rapidshare Timer Settings

Enabling and Setting Timer for Rapidshare Ticker
1) Log into admin and inside config
- Use download ticket, set the radio button to on and click Submit.

Editing Timer
1) Edit templates/_files/view/_common.php
//Find
var duration = 4;

//Replace
var duration = x;

2) Save File

Where x is equal to the amount of seconds you would like to make user wait before viewing Video.
i.e To set a timeout of 5 seconds it would be
var duration = 5;

Tariffs

More About Tariffs
Tariffs basically control the Payment Mechanism for the Attachmax Script, currently there is two Payment method which the administrator can receive payment.
- RSS Feed Advertising (http://yourdomain.com/advertise.php)
- or via Premium Memberships (http://yourdomain.com/register.php).

By default the script creates a Free Tariff for Premium Registration.
Also created by default is Gold, Silver, Bronze for the Rss Feed Advertising.
Basically the concept is that you can give priority to High Paid Advertisements, and organise them via Names.

What's configurable?
Customizable in the admin section is the removal of all current tariffs and the creation of new payment methods..
Allowing you the option to set these factors:
- Name
- Price
- Time Period
- Type of Payment
- Priority for Rss Feeds

The option to create these fields can be done via in the empty form fields, upon entering the information below, you will then be able to click the Add New Button.
Or to edit any current field, just make the changes in current fields and click the Update Button.

FFMPEG & Mencoder Installation Howto's

Flvtool2 info and installation

Flvtool2 Installation

FLVTool2 can calculate a lot of meta data and insert a onMetaData tag. It can cut FLV files and add cue Points (onCuePoint)
- (In simple terms, flvtool2 reads cuepoints from the source flv file to help the Flash Player calculate progress indication, rewind and forward.)

1) Download and Extract Flvtool2
Log into ssh
# wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/17497/flvtool2-1.0.6.tgz
# tar -zxvf flvtool2-1.0.6.tgz
1a) *For Fedora Core/Centos Users* (via package manager)
# yum install ruby

2) Install Flvtool2 # cd flvtool2*
# ruby setup.rb config
# ruby setup.rb setup
# ruby setup.rb install

3) Webpage Installation
Using above method flvtool2 is usually isntalled at /usr/bin/flvtool2
Navigate to your http://yourattachmax.com/admin

In admin/servers tab, tick Use flvtool2
- Then enter path /usr/bin/flvtool2

Flvtool2 should be installed and working

Perl Upload Progress Meter installation

PERL UPLOAD PROGRESS METER INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS

PHP Progress Meter Installation

Written by Luke(aka asmo)
Edited by Jon Nikolakakis

HOW TO INSTALL PROGRESS METER(intermed level)
Installation Time - 10 min or less depending on Service Administration Skills

1)cd /usr/src
2)wget http://pdoru.from.ro/upload-progress-meter/upload-progress-meter-v4.1.tgz
3)tar -zxvf upload-progress-meter-v4.1.tgz
4)cd upload-progress*
5)cd php-patch/ && ls -l
6)Copy patch into php Directory, in my case both php and progress meter were download to /usr/src

so my command will be:
cp patch.upload-progress-callback-v4.1-for-php4.3.10.txt ../../php-4.4.4
and to check -> ls -l ../../php-*

7) cd ../../php-4.4.4

7) Now I can patch my php
Patch php using patch.upload-progress-callback-v4.1-for-php4.3.10.txt

patch -p1 < patch.upload-progress-callback-v4.1-for-php4.3.10.txt
It was succesful and this is the result I achieved
===================================================
patch -p1 < patch.upload-progress-callback-v4.1-for-php4.3.10.txt
patching file main/rfc1867.c
Hunk #1 succeeded at 129 with fuzz 2 (offset 1 line).
Hunk #2 succeeded at 795 (offset 4 lines).
Hunk #3 succeeded at 877 (offset 1 line).
Hunk #4 succeeded at 944 (offset 5 lines).
Hunk #5 succeeded at 967 (offset 1 line).
Hunk #6 succeeded at 1026 with fuzz 2 (offset 6 lines).
Hunk #7 succeeded at 1250 (offset 8 lines).
===================================================

7)nano /usr/local/apache/htdocs/info.php

8) add these lines
<? phpinfo(); ?>
Save file then go to
http://yourip/info.php

Keep this file open it will reveal the location of 4 important factors
Your current PHP version
Current configure lines
extension_dir
Location of php.ini

9)Now you're ready to compile php with knowledge of this information,
for example with prefix (example -> /usr/local/php)

10) Copy your configure lines in info.php(step 8)
In my case
./configure' '--with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs' '--with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql2' '--prefix=/usr/local/php' '--with-zlib=/usr/local/zlib' '--with-openssl=/usr/local/ssl' '--enable-fastcgi' '--enable-memory-limit' '--enable-zend-multibyte' '--with-bz2' '--enable-shmop' '--enable-safe-mode' '--enable-sigchild' '--enable-bcmath' '--with-freetype-dir=/usr/local/freetype' '--with-gd=/usr/local/gd' '--enable-gd-native-ttf' '--enable-mbstring' '--with-mm=/usr/local/mm' '--enable-inline-optimization' '--disable-debug'

11) If not in the location of where you downloaded php to, then go to it
i.e /usr/src/php-4.4

when php is installed go into upload-progress-meter-v4.1/upload_progress_meter
12) cd /usr/src/upload-pr*/upload_progress_meter && ls -l
You should see the config file dir
and do:

13) /usr/local/php/bin/phpize (depending on where you php is installed, find this information from your
info.php

./configure --with-php-config=/usr/local/php/bin/php-config
make
make install

14) now full path to upload-meter extension should be:
location_of_php/no-debug-non-zts-XXXXXXXX/upload_progress_meter.so
where XXXXXXXX = date numbers, may be differend than the one i have so it need to be checked.

So in your php.ini file, find "extension_dir"
In this case it was extension_dir=/usr/local/php/lib/php/extensions, so the config lines will be

extension_dir=/usr/local/php/lib/php/extensions
extension=no-debug-non-zts-20020429/upload_progress_meter.so

But use your exact extension_dir lines by going into your php,ini

In httpd.conf in your domain add:
11)
--- cut cut ---
php_value upload_progress_meter.store_method "file"
php_value upload_progress_meter.file 1
php_value upload_progress_meter.file.filename_template "/tmp/uploadbar/upl_%s.txt"
--- cut cut ---

now you need to create one directory:

12) mkdir /tmp/uploadbar && chmod 777 /tmp/uploadbar

now restart your apache and verify using test files in 'live-demo' dir or via phpinfo() function.
enjoy.

Uploading Large Files

Changing Background Image/Color

The background is controlled by css, and can be viewed inside
css/style.css page. (Line 119)

body {
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px;
	* padding-top: 50px;
	* padding-bottom: 35px;
	background-image: url(../images/pageBackground.gif);
	text-align: center;
	font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    font-size: 11px;
}

To change the background can be done by inserting a new image or removing this line.
background-image: url(../images/pageBackground.gif);
and replacing that line with the code below

background-color:#FFFFFF;

Changing Banners

Below is the html & css code to change the Banners on Attachmax Homepage.
HTML Elements - File located at - templates/frontend/header.tpl
---------

<div id="branding">
    	<a href="<?php echo $siteUrl ?>"><img alt="<?php echo $siteName ?>" src="images/logo.png" /></a>
    	<a id="buy" href="http://cihilt.com"><img alt="Buy AttachMax Script" src="images/buy.png" /></a>
    </div>

CSS Elements - Files located at css/style.css
---------

#branding {
	float: left;
	background: url(../images/banner_bg.png) repeat-x;
	border-bottom: 10px solid rgb(255, 218, 103);
}

#branding img {
	float: left;
}

#buy {
	float: right;
}

Changing Homepage Categories

Below is the html & css code to change the Categories.
HTML Elements - File located at - index.php
---------

$category = amCategory::getById(39);
$file_row = array(
                'files' => amFile::search(array('order' => FILES_ORDER_VIEWS, 'limit' => 5,
                                     'types' => array($type), 'category' => $category)),
                'title' => 'Top 5 Sport'
             );
array_push($files, $file_row);

Theres two main parts you need to change that will influence what kind of information the categories will display.
Where you have FILES_ORDER_LAST_VIEW_TIME,

Can be substituted with either:
FILES_ORDER_LAST_VIEW_TIME, - To Order via last view time
FILES_ORDER_UPLOAD_TIME, - To order via last Uploaded time
FILES_ORDER_VIEWS, - To order via Most Viewed

Where you have amCategory::getById(39);
This line points to the category id, which can be viewed from either 3 locations.
1) Hovering over homepage Categories with mouse
2)Inside admin Category section
3)Viewing the id directly from the database
So in our case 39 is the Sport category and will show all Sport Videos.

Another part that you can modify is the title
Where you have - 'title' => 'Top 5 Sport'
You can adjust the text to display the text any way you wish.

Another part that can be adjusted is:
'limit' => 5,
This tells the script how many videos to show, if you're handy with coding, you may display the Video thumbnails in vertical format and increase this limit to something like 10.

HTML Design elements that control the categories - templates/frontend/home/index.tpl

<div class="content">
				 <?php foreach ($file_row['files'] as $file): ?>
				     <?php echo $file->getShortPreviewHtml() ?>
				 <?php endforeach; ?>
</div>

CSS Elements - css/style.css - line 111
============

#videos #top .content, #files #top .content, #images #top .content {style.css (line 111)
background-color:white;
float:left;
padding-bottom:5px;
width:750px;
}

Embed Code

The embed code is located at templates\_files\view\_video_embed_code.tpl

<div><b>Embed: </b><input type="text" class="text" onclick="am_highlight(this)" readonly="true" value="<?php echo am_h(str_replace(array("\n", "\t"), '', $playerHtml)) ?>" /></div>

This is controlled via css in the folder css/view.css (line 74)

#file_info .embed div {
    padding:0pt 0pt 5px;
}

Using css, you can move or adjust the position, to completely change the look.

Homepage Navigation

Location of HMTL and CSS code to change the navigation

HTML Elements - templates/frontend/header.tpl - line 40
============

        <ul id="secondNav">
            <li class="videos"><a>">Videos</a></li>
            <li class="images"><a>">Images</a></li>
            <li class="files"><a>">Files</a></li>
            <li class="list"><a href="list.php">List Files</a></li>
            <li class="upload"><a href="upload.php">Upload</a></li>
            <li class="register"><a href="register.php">Register</a></li>
        </ul>
    

CSS Elements - css/style.css - line 111
============
Both these Css elements control the display of the navigation,
#secondNav controls more the Navigation links, while #secondNavHolder, is the placeholder for the menyu

#secondNavHolder {style.css (line 358)
background:transparent url(../images/taskbar_top.jpg) repeat-x scroll center bottom;
float:left;
padding-bottom:27px;
}
* {style.css (line 4)
margin:0pt;
padding:0pt;
}


#secondNav {style.css (line 364)
background:#5A84BD url(../images/middle_menu/attachmax.gif) no-repeat scroll left top;
float:left;
list-style-type:none;
margin:0pt;
padding:0pt 0pt 0pt 180px;
width:775px;
}
ul, ol {style.css (line 14)
margin-left:2em;
}

Create The Database and Users

CREATE AND PREPARE THE ATTACHMAX DATABASE
-----------------------------------------
Before you proceed to the next installation step you should know:
- "username" - the username for connecting to the database
- "password" - the password for the Database
- "databasename" - the name of the database

1) You can either create this through phpmyadmin or directly via ssh into mysql

Via Phpmyadmin

1) On the Phpmyadmin homepage where it says "Create new database"
Enter any name for the database and then click Create.

2) You will be taken to a new page that gives you a message
Database "name you chose" has been created.

3) Go back to your Homepage and click Privileges

4) Click Enter Username link

5) You will be taken to a new Page, where you can enter
Username: enter a username here
Host: Usually localhost
Password: The password for the user

Down Below you will see some radio options,
Choose, Create database with same name and grant all privileges

Below that Select the adequate Privileges and your Done

------------------------------------------------------------
Faster Alternative approach for ssh users.
Enter these commands
1) mysql -p (which will take you into mysql shell)
2) Create database databasename
2) grant all privileges on databasename.* to user@localhost identified by 'password';
i.e grant all privileges on am_test.* to am_user@localhost identified by 'zoomzoom';