http://www.loudblog.com/forum en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.loudblog.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4352#4352 Hi Everyone! I am using Loudblog for a while now and I love it! It is the easiest way to publish your podcasts without hassle. Well since I have gained a lot from loudblog I thought I could give a little bit back to the community. I am not sure if someone already has done this but I could not find any solution to my problem in the forum today, so I gave it a try myslef and VOILA! it worked out! ;) Although I am just a rookie php coder! Now what does the plugin do? Well first of all if you have a lot of video Podcasts on your site you have certainly realized that the site is very slow in loading pages. And playing the videos can even get a bigger pain.  Second of all if you or another user of the admin tool accidently uploads a bigger video your whole template design will mess up. What I did is I implemented shadowbox to it so that everytime a mp4 video is postet instead of putting the QT player a small image (whatever you wish) is loaded as a placeholder and if you click on that image the shadowbox is activated and your video will play. On ther other hand all MP3 Podcasts will stay playing with the standard flash player. Here is how it works. 1. Get Shadowbox and upload it to loudblog/custom/template/default folder on your server. 2. Include the piece of code described on the shadowbox homepage into your header. Make sure you have the right root to the shadowbox css and js files. If you upload it to the folder I said it should look something like this: Code: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="shadowbox/shadowbox.css"> <script type="text/javascript" src="shadowbox/shadowbox.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> Shadowbox.init({ language: 'de', players: ['img', 'html', 'iframe', 'qt', 'wmp', 'swf', 'flv', 'mp3'] }); </script> 3. Now copy paste the following code into an empty file (you can do this with any TextEdit Software on your computer) name it niiceeplayer.php and save it. Code: <?php ################################################# ################################################# function niiceeplayer($content) { //puts emff-flash-app OR quicktime player on screen (works within postings-loop) global $postings; global $currentid; global $settings; $att = getattributes($content); $audioexamine = ""; $return = ""; //decide: flash or quicktime $thetype = $postings[$currentid]['audio_type']; //redirect or direct link? Only Flash can be redirected for counting if (($thetype == "1") AND ($settings['countfla'] == "1")) { $before = "get.php?fla="; } else { if ($postings[$currentid]['filelocal'] == "1") { $before = "audio/"; $audioexamine = $GLOBALS['audiopath'].$postings[$currentid]['audio_file']; } else { $before = ""; } } if (!veryempty($postings[$currentid]['audio_file'])) { //possible attributes and default-values if (isset($att['width'])) { $width = $att['width']; } else { $width = 200; } if (isset($att['height'])) { $height = $att['height']; } else { $height = 62; } if ($postings[$currentid]['filelocal'] == 1) { $audio = $before.$postings[$currentid]['audio_file']; } else { $audio = $postings[$currentid]['audio_file']; if ($settings['countfla'] == "1") { $audio = $before.$audio; } } //if mp3, show flash! if ($thetype == "1") { $return .= showflash( "loudblog/custom/templates/".$settings['template']."/emff.swf?src=".$audio, $width, $height); } //if quicktime video if (($thetype == "10")) { //making an absolute link if ($postings[$currentid]['filelocal'] == "1") { $audio = $settings['url'] . "/" . $audio; $target = "myself"; } else { $target = "quicktimeplayer"; } //getting width and height from getid3() $fileinfo = getid3data($audioexamine,"front"); //build html-code for quicktime plugin (video) $return = "<a class=\"preview\" href=\"". $audio . "\" rel=\"shadowbox\">"; $return .= "<img src=\"loudblog/backend/clicktoplayvideo.jpg\" </>"; $return .= "</a>\n"; } return $return; } else { return ""; } } ?> 4. Upload this file to loudblog/custom/plugins 5. Now open the index.html file in your template folder on the server and replace everything from <lb:if_audio> to </lb:if_audio> with the following code. Code: <lb:if_audio> <p> <class="flash"><lb:niiceeplayer width="355" height="28" /> </p> <p> <lb:link_audio> Download <lb:audiotype /> </lb:link_audio> (<lb:audiolength />min, <lb:audiosize />MB) </p> </lb:if_audio> 6. Last but not least upload the image you want to be shown instead of the video on the post to loudblog/backend/ and name it clicktoplayvideo.jpg 7. Try it out!!!! It should work. If not I might have forgotten to write down something since it is late and I am sleepy!  ;) Post and I will try help. I am sure there are other cracks out there who can programm this little piece of code much more elegently. But I am pretty proud of what I have managed to accomplish and felt like sharing with you guys. But if anyone has a better and more efficiant way to solve this problem please let me know!!! Keep up the good work and share your ideas! Peace! Plugin Exhibition / Video Podcasts with Shadowbox Wed, 26 May 2010 14:10:53 -0700 http://www.loudblog.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4351#4351 PodHawk 1.6 is now available - see the PodHawk website . It requires php5. If you have php4, install PodHawk 1.53. News / Future of LoudBlog Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:19:43 -0700 http://www.loudblog.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4350#4350 PodHawk 1.52 is now available from the PodHawk website News / Future of LoudBlog Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:18:37 -0800 http://www.loudblog.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4349#4349 Here's the french translate for this version (0.8.0a) : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6658/Loudblog_0_8_0a/french.php Loudblog around the world! / French translation / Traduction Française Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:56:58 -0800 http://www.loudblog.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4348#4348 Here's the french translate for this version (0.8.0a) : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6658/Loudblog_0_8_0a/french.php News / LoudBlog 0.8.0 released Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:55:38 -0800 http://www.loudblog.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4346#4346 PodHawk 1.5 is now available from the PodHawk website . News / Future of LoudBlog Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:24:15 -0800 http://www.loudblog.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4345#4345 This surprises me, as I have never found a problem with links added to the podcast. Has anyone else experienced the problem? Questions & Problems / iTunes not downloading episodes Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:33:55 -0700 http://www.loudblog.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4344#4344 Well, in fact I figured the problem out - it had to do with the possibility top add "links" in to the podcasts within the backend. Whenever I added "links" to a posting, iTunes would not accept the feed as valid. Without the links it did. Questions & Problems / iTunes not downloading episodes Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:19:17 -0700 http://www.loudblog.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4343#4343 I can't be sure about this until I can find a Windows or Mac computer (no iTunes on Linux, I am afraid!). But the problem may be the "com=1" bit at the end of the podcast url. Try using <lb:link_podcast /> instead of <lb:link_podcast comments="true" /> Questions & Problems / iTunes not downloading episodes Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:25:45 -0700 http://www.loudblog.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4342#4342 Hi there, I've a strange problem with my Loudblog-podcast and iTunes. This is the URL of the podcast: http://www.antonianum.de/podcast/ As you can see, everything is fine with it, so I submitted it to iTunes. Now strange things happen: If you click on the iTunes link, you'll see that the podcast is listed and looks good: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSt … =333894619 You can even listen to the episodes and download them episode by episode. But if you click on "subscribe" iTunes will give you an error saying that this might not be a correct podcast-URL. Strange, huh? I've set up several podcasts using Loudblog (e.g. http://schule.schulpodcasting.info ) - those podcasts works fine with iTunes and you can easily subscribe to them (even without submitting them to the Store). What went wrong with this podcast? I can't find where something went wrong, can you give me a clue? Thanks, Sebastian Questions & Problems / iTunes not downloading episodes Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:29:29 -0700 http://www.loudblog.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4341#4341 There is something strange about the path to the accesscheck.php script in the error messages. The root of your site appears to be /home/deepsession/public_html/old". Now, if that is the root of your LoudBlog site, the path to the accesscheck file should be "/home/deepsession/public_html/old/loudblog/inc/accesscheck.php". But in the error messages, the "/loudblog/" bit is missing. Which suggests that you have not in fact got your files in the right place. Questions & Problems / Warning: include(custom/config.php) [function.include]: failed to open Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:12:55 -0700 http://www.loudblog.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4340#4340 Hello , i have transferred my loudblog to another server but when i try to reach it , tell me this error: Warning: include(custom/config.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/deepsession/public_html/old/inc/accesscheck.php on line 10 Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening 'custom/config.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in /home/deepsession/public_html/old/inc/accesscheck.php on line 10 Cannot find a valid configuration file. Install Loudblog now! Permission are OK! Paths are OK! my config: <?php // YOUR DATABASE INFORMATION -------------------- $db = array( "type" => "mysql", "host" => "localhost", "data" => "deepsession", "user" => "**********", "pass" => "**********", "pref" => "" ); // DOCUMENT ROOT --------------------- $lb_path = "/home/deepsession/public_html/old"; ?> any solutions? Questions & Problems / Warning: include(custom/config.php) [function.include]: failed to open Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:14:25 -0700 http://www.loudblog.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4339#4339 Thanks a lot for the info. Now that sounds quite good, so I might just take the plunge and see how far I get. I'll try to move my loudblog site in the next week(s) over to podhawk, I'll give you some feedback on how it went, once I'm done. News / Future of LoudBlog Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:53:57 -0700 http://www.loudblog.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4338#4338 When you convert from LoudBlog to PodHawk, all the information in your database is preserved. The convert.php programme adds a number of new tables/columns to the database, but leaves everything which is already there untouched. (Best to back up your database and your audio folder before you start, though, in case of accidents!) You can keep your existing rss/xml feed. Strictly, static feeds are not needed in PodHawk, because Smarty caches web pages and the rss feed, but the static feed facility is retained in PodHawk for backwards compatibility with LoudBlog. The static rss/xml feed will have the same address ( www.mysite.com/audio/rss.xml ) as in LoudBlog. I have not implemented separate static feeds for individual categories in PodHawk, but if you need these, let me know and I will tell you how to do it. Basically, if you convert from LoudBlog to PodHawk, your listeners/viewers will not notice any difference - your web address will be the same, as will the address of your rss feed. The content of the feed will be the same (except that it will say "generated by PodHawk" instead of "generated by LoudBlog"!). The web page may look different - it depends on how closely you want to match your old web page in PodHawk. PS There is a very annoying error on the SourceForge page for downloading PodHawk. The "download" button will download PodHawk 1.1, not 1.4. To get the latest PodHawk version, click "View all files" to find the PodHawk1.4 zip and tar packages. SourceForge are aware of the problem, but have not yet fixed it. PPS I think this has now been resolved! News / Future of LoudBlog Tue, 21 Jul 2009 04:33:27 -0700 http://www.loudblog.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4337#4337 Here are my questions for switching from loudblog to podhawk: I can live with having to recode my own templates, but how about the database? Any chance I can convert that or export via xml and reimport that into podhawk? I have tons of comments on my past episodes which I just don't want to loose. What about the rss/xml feed? Where does it reside in podhawk? Do I have to set up a redirect to the new location? Is there a way to import the old loublog xml feed into podhawk so that I don't have to recreate all the past episodes (54 of them)? And just as importantly, once I switched to podhawk, will the xml feed be different thusly having all the users losing the backlog, resp. will they have to re-download all of them? These are my main concerns for switching. News / Future of LoudBlog Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:58:36 -0700