- Free Update
What's New?
Version 4.7.11
- Integrate notification and email when creating a new item in Page
- When enabling "Add Comments as Feeds" - Also check the permission of the page when displaying comment feeds on the Home Feed
- UI/UX Improvements in AdminCP App settings
- Support Ajax for Delete action
- Fix bugs
People love watching videos, and video is one of the important factors to keep your users engage and stay more in your community. phpFox makes it easy to share video from Youtube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Facebook or upload video directly from computers.
Notice:
- For sites upgrade from V3 to V4, we only support migrate embed videos and mp4 videos. All flv files could not play on new Video app
- For functionality to upload videos directly from computers, FFMPEG is required on server. In particular, FFMPEG Dependencies are libmp3lame, libvpx, libfdk-aac, libass, libx264, libvorbis.
- FFMPEG 3.0 or higher
Feature List
Feed
- Allow users to share videos to feed by using link or uploading files
- Allow users to share videos to their walls or friend's walls
- While sharing video, users can view file size limit
- While sharing video, users can select privacy for it
- User can drag and drop file while sharing video
- Users can like, share, report the video feed
Main Videos Page
- Allow users to browse all videos and see some information for each video as title, posted by, total view, etc
- Users can search video, sort or filters by some criteria
- Users can view videos in a specific category
- Allow users to sponsor their videos
- Allow users to sponsor video in feed
- Moderators can use mass actions to manage videos as delete, approve, feature videos
- Moderator can sponsor or feature a specific video
- Users can view their own videos in My Videos page
- Users can view their friends' videos in Friends' Videos page
- Moderator can approve all pending videos in Pending Videos page
Video Detail Page
- Display all information of video as title, description, category, total views
- Play video directly in the detail page
- Support social sharing via Addthis
- Owner / Moderator can perform some actions as edit, delete, sponsor in feed, sponsor/un-sponsor, feature/un-feature, approve
- Users can perform some actions as: like, comment, share, report
- Has Suggestion block to suggest videos which have the same category with the current one
Share Video
- Allow users to share video from other sources as Youtube, Facebook, Vimeo, Dailymotion and so on
- Title and description of videos got from some sources can be parsed directly and put into the sharing form
- Allow users to upload video from local server
- Allow users to store videos on local server or S3. Support CDN in case store on local server
- Allow users to drag and drop video in case uploading
- Integrate with CKEditor to edit video's description
- Allow users to add title, description, category of video
Privacy Settings
- Allow users to configure the default privacy for their new videos
Back End - Dashboard and Site Statistics
- View all videos as well as pending videos
Back End - App Settings
- Configure to use pagination or load more in search page
- Configure the number of videos will be shown on some blocks as Featured Videos, Sponsored Videos, Suggestion
- Configure to show/hide videos which created in Page / Group into the All Video page of Video app
- Enable/disable providers as upload video, Youtube, Facebook, Vimeo and so on
- Configure Zencoder / S2 Account
- Select video processing (S3 or local server)
- Configure SEO meta keywords and SEO meta description
- Configure FFMPEG
Back End - User Group
- Configure all settings for each user group
Back End - Manage Categories
- Can add, edit, delete, re-order categories
- When deleting category, admin has some options to choose
- ++ Remove all items belong to this category
- ++ Select another category to move all items
- ++ Leave the items no category (items aren't required category)
Tools and other settings
Migrate videos from phpFox V3 to this new app
Migrate videos from the old Video app to this new one
Use global time stamp instead of having its own
Configure the responsive size, number of item in each block
Installation Guide
Please follow below steps to install new phpFox Video app:
- Give 777 permission for folder PF.Site/Apps/core-videos/.
- Install the Video app from the store.
- Remove files no longer used (at Admin Panel > Maintenance > Remove files no longer used).
- Clear cache on your site
Congratulation! You have completed the installation process.
Setup cronjob
- In order to process videos which upload from local server, you should configure cron job. Please follow the instruction at https://docs.phpfox.com/display/FOX4MAN/Setup+Cron
Changelog
- Please visit our doc to get this information.