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WebShow Module for XOOPS Content Management System

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The WebShow module for the XOOPS content management system combines a media directory with Jeroen Wijering's JW Media Player to catalog and play Flash media files, directories and webfeeds. WebShow is also a web feed generator that will read and filter a media directory, generate an XSPF playlist and publish a web feed link.

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Usage

Webmasters: Display many types of media with one player. Create custom players with colors that change with the theme and superimpose your logo. Add music bars to your site. Use playlists to display pre, mid and post roll advertisements. Create custom blocks using embed codes generated by the module. Want to play some media files but not display the catalog? Hide the module in the main menu and use WebShow's media, players and blocks in stealth mode.

Indie Musicians and Record Labels: Catalog, play and distribute your music. Control access with View and Download permission settings. Generate album playlists with images. Syndicate your site using webfeeds and social bookmarking.

Educators: Display your lesson in full HTML with image slides, audio and video. Add accessibilty with full screen video, large player controls, second audio program and timed text captions.

Graphic Artists: Display your art using animated slide shows with music. Display Flash shockwave animations.

Podcasters: WebShow is a podcast aggregator that will cache and parse webfeeds then display the feed's text and play the enclosed media. WebShow is also has a feed generator that will filter a directory of media files and then generate and syndicate a webfeed (XSPF) file.

Individuals: Install xoops on a local LAMP server (wamp, xamp, etc) and use WebShow to manage and play your local media files. Use WebShow's embed features to collect and display your favorite clips from media sharing sites. WebShow will automatically fetch your favorite podcast feed updates.

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Media Catalog

The WebShow media catalog was originally a clone of the Xoops MyLinks module by Kazumi Ono (onokazu) and Jochen Bünnagel (Bunny).

Multiple Category Media Directory with category images, block description and html text body.
Page Views
- Index page displays the latest media entries in the default player.
- Category view displays the category title, image, description, text body and sorted entries.
- Poster view entries sorted by submitter.
- Top Ten View pages display top entries by top rating, page hits and media views.
- Singlelink view displays the media player, info box and full page text body.
Media Information Box with selectable contents
- Logo image
- Text Description
- Pop Up Button
- Credits
- Statistics
- Website, web feed and download links and buttons
- Link and embed code boxes
- Social Bookmarking (addThis)
Features
- Header and footer templates with selectbox menu and media search form.
- Unique meta keywords, description and page title for each page.
- Scheduled Publish and Expiration.
- Group view, submit, and approve permissions per category.
- Group view permission and download permissions per entry.
- External logo images are fetched and resized.
- Stock logo directory for generic logos.

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Module Blocks

Links Block shows (n ) entries sorted by date, rating, popularity or at random. Options to show title, logo and statistics. Rollover logo to reveal title and statistic.
Rollover Block displays the description with image at half opacity. Rollover the description to reveal the image.
Billboard Block shows a specific, sorted or random entry with options to show title, logo, description and popup button.
Play It Block loads a specific, sorted or random entry in the selected player. Options to show title, logo, description and popup button.
Category Block displays the category menu. Options to show category image.

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Flash Media Player

Using JW Media Player 3.16
Full screen view, text captions and large size controls for accessibility.
Upper right corner Player Logo or ID "Bug"
Search Bar with assignable search query url.
Display thumbnails and images for each playlist track.

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Player Editor

Create, clone and modify custom Flash players.

Customize a player's appearance and behavior including size, color and controls.

Selectable color style options include monochrome, custom colors assigned per theme, player or page.

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Media Types

WebShow plays flv, swf, mp3, jpg, gif and png media files and webfeeds from an absolute URL.

Play a Single Media File or Web Feed

Parse and play atom, rss or xspf xml webfeeds containing links to media files.

Play single files from an absolute url.

Play a Media Directory

Filters an internal media directory by file type, then creates and saves an xspf playlist.

Play Embed Links

Display Embed Players from many popular media sharing sites including You Tube, Daily Motion, AOL, Google, myspace, vimeo, veoh, metacafe, lastFM, jamendo, etc.

Easy to create Embed Plugins allow webmasters to create plugins from other sharing sites.

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Web Feed Syndication

Display a web feed button and text link for syndication.
Schedule fetch and cache external multimedia web feeds.

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Notes:

WebShow uses Jeroen Wijering's JW Media Player which is under a Non-Profit Share-A-Like Creative Commons License . Commercial users will need to buy a commercial license from Jeroen.

Currently there is no way to upload media thru the module. Webmasters can upload internal media files with an FTP client. Front side users can only submit the URL of a single media file, an web feed or an embed code that points to external media files located on the submitter's server or on any of the popular media storage sites. This is ideal if you only have a small shared server space as the media files can be stored elsewhere.

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Credits:

In order to teach myself how to build a XOOPS module, I have studied, emulated and used code written by real developers. This module would not exist without the open source code contributions of the following masters.

Jeroen Wijering , Flash Media Player
Herve Thouzard (Hervet), MyLinks meta tags, admin forms
zoullou , XoopsFormColorPicker
Kazumi Ono (onokazu) and Jochen Bünnagel (Bunny), XOOPS MyLinks Module

Thanks for sharing your time and talent with the XOOPS community.

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System Requirements:

XOOPS Content Management System

For Keyword Tag Functions install Phppp's Tag Module.

Xoops 2.0.16-18 and 2.2.4-6 Core Only:
Additional files: Frameworks, class/xoopseditor

WebShow was created and tested using XOOPS 2.3, 2.0.16 thru 2.0.18 and 2.2.4 thru 2.2.6, php 4 and 5, mysql 5.0.22 and formatted for screen using IE6 at 1024x768 pixels.

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Disclaimer:

By installing and using the WebShow module you agree that you will not use it to display, distribute or syndicate a third party's copyright protected media without the owner's permission. The WebShow software is not to be used to display or syndicate illegal or copyright protected media. The creator of this software is not responsible for the media content that users display.

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