Media Select 0.4

Media Select
Version: 0.4
Author: Nick Ramsay
Created: 2009/11/29
Last Updated: 2010/06/04
Tested on: Hotaru 1.3.0
Plugins Required: None
Plug & Play: Yes
Supported: Yes

Description
This plugin adds a choice of "News", "Video" or "Image" to Submit Step 2, therefore tagging each post with a media type that can be used by other plugins. Media Select also adds a media choice to the category bar which allows users to filter posts to their choice of media.

Instructions
1. Upload the "media_select" folder to your plugins folder. Install it from Plugin Management in Admin.

Notes
By default, all existing posts are given the "news" media type. You can change the media type on old posts from their individual edit pages. An example of a plugin using this media type is Video Inc, which will embed videos into posts with type "video" (if their url points directly at a video).

Revision History
v.0.4 2010/05/22 - Nick - Moved Media RSS from SB Base into this plugin
v.0.3 2010/04/22 - Nick - Moved menu into a template and added plural for "news" language item
v.0.2 2010/01/02 - Nick - Updated for compatibility with Hotaru 1.0
v.0.1 2009/11/30 - Nick - Released first version

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Any idea how one would go about displaying the videos option of this plugin in the category menu?

 

do you mean like the Video Inc plugin?

 

What do you mean? There aren't any video options in this plugin, and it already adds News, Images and Video to the category bar, under "Media".

 

i think he wants an extra button (video) after the media dropdown
oke you need to modify hotaru\content\plugins\media_select\media_select.php
goto line 205, press enter
and add this:

PHP:

echo "<li><a href='" . $h->url(array('media'=>'video')) . "'>" . $h->lang['media_select_videos'] . "</a>\n";

 

Yes this plug-in adds the "Media" under the category bar, what if i wanted to just display Videos, Images alongside my other categories?

 

Im assuming i can just replace this code:

Code:

 /**
     * Add media options to category bar
     */
    public function category_bar_end($h)
    {
        echo "<li><a href='" . $h->url(array('media'=>'video')) . "'>" . $h->lang['media_select_videos'] . "</a></li>\n";
        echo "<ul class='children'>\n";
        echo "<li><a href='" . $h->url(array('media'=>'text')) . "'>" . $h->lang['media_select_text'] . "</a></li>\n";
        echo "<li><a href='" . $h->url(array('media'=>'video')) . "'>" . $h->lang['media_select_videos'] . "</a></li>\n";
        echo "<li><a href='" . $h->url(array('media'=>'image')) . "'>" . $h->lang['media_select_images'] . "</a></li>\n";
        echo "</ul></li>";
    }

With This:

Code:

echo "<li><a href='" . $h->url(array('media'=>'video')) . "'>" . $h->lang['media_select_videos'] . "</a></li>\n";
echo "<li><a href='" . $h->url(array('media'=>'image')) . "'>" . $h->lang['media_select_images'] . "</a></li>\n";

 

yes it would be like this, but any update of this plugin will remove the changes you have made as the file is overwritten

Code:

    /**
     * Add media options to category bar
     */
    public function category_bar_end($h)
    {
          echo "<li><a href='" . $h->url(array('media'=>'video')) . "'>" . $h->lang['media_select_videos'] . "</a></li>\n";
          echo "<li><a href='" . $h->url(array('media'=>'image')) . "'>" . $h->lang['media_select_images'] . "</a></li>\n";
     }

 

Updated: v.0.3 2010/04/22 - Nick - Moved menu into a template and added plural for "news" language item

 

Is it possible to make so that if i click an category and then click image in media, so i only see images from that category. It works with top 24h etc, so it would be really coll if u could fix this Thanks or if its to hard to make i can understand i have read some php but i cant really code yet ^^

 

It's not currently possible and not very easy to do either, sorry.

 

Can we agree a position of following two plugins please? (media select and post images)
For media select - thumbnails reflected on the right side and in post images the position is at the left...

 

Also having problems downloading this zip with mac firefox.

 

Try decompressing it with stuffit expander rather than the macs built in decompressor.

 

Thanks, it does work with stuffit expander! But it still might be worth figuring out why this is happening as it's the first time I've encountered it after 2 years with the mac and I exchange zip files on a frequent basis(using a different 3rd party expander) with pc users for work and have never encountered this issue before.

 

Well, I work in Vista, and I use this very speedy utility to zip files, including the .zip in this thread:

http://free-backup.info/justzipit.html

So perhaps that causes the issue. I've never used a Mac in my life and have no access to one, so I can't test these things.

 

I think it may be your utility as I only have to use stuffit expander for your plugins etc. Just tested Jons more from plugin and it unzipped correctly using the built in mac unarchiver whereas your TOS antispam decompresses to a cpgz file, double click that and I get another zip file and that repeats indefinitely.
Having said all that stuffit expander is free , it solves the problem and so I am happy to leave it at that.

 

pls, how can i add media select to rss autoreader so i can choose the default media type for a campain?