Idea: Avoid Duplicate Video Threads?

[OwnagePranks]

George,

Trust me, there are several things I want to have done to the site. I have been looking for a good coder for a while now. I had a really bad experience in the past where I hired someone who ended up being a really shitty coder. He tried to make several significant modifications on the live website, then ended up fucking up the database and blah blah blah

My main coder has been repeatedly disappearing for a while now, and I haven't been able to get a hold of him recently. I still send out emails pretty frequently and look around for some good coders.. but no luck yet

[saw1833]

I'll code. Does using Geocities work for you?
Btw I work at $100/hr

[iKron]

George,

Trust me, there are several things I want to have done to the site. I have been looking for a good coder for a while now. I had a really bad experience in the past where I hired someone who ended up being a really shitty coder. He tried to make several significant modifications on the live website, then ended up fucking up the database and blah blah blah

My main coder has been repeatedly disappearing for a while now, and I haven't been able to get a hold of him recently. I still send out emails pretty frequently and look around for some good coders.. but no luck yet

Well, the problem is that you need a hardcore fan to do some major work on a site for free.

[George]

It sounds completely reasonable if you have the template written. I'll keep looking to figure out what the file is called but it doesn't seem to come up when I do searches. I'll ask one of my friends over the weekend who has done some VB work.

Even if Ownage doesn't want this I'm sure you could market it to VB as an add on.

K so i couldn't wait cause i was curious and downloaded (only extracted, not installed) a cracked version of vbulletin v3.8.3 and i believe the file we're looking for is the newthread.php and the variable is $newpost which is an array (the actual content is $newpost['message'])
If i'm correct, it's really realllllllyy easy the rest.

George,

Trust me, there are several things I want to have done to the site. I have been looking for a good coder for a while now. I had a really bad experience in the past where I hired someone who ended up being a really shitty coder. He tried to make several significant modifications on the live website, then ended up fucking up the database and blah blah blah

My main coder has been repeatedly disappearing for a while now, and I haven't been able to get a hold of him recently. I still send out emails pretty frequently and look around for some good coders.. but no luck yet

Alright ownage i believe you.
I'd have no problem coding things if ever needed with no pay but then again i'm not sure you want or you trust me enough. I understand lol.

[The Baconator]

K so i couldn't wait cause i was curious and downloaded (only extracted, not installed) a cracked version of vbulletin v3.8.3 and i believe the file we're looking for is the newthread.php and the variable is $newpost which is an array (the actual content is $newpost['message'])
If i'm correct, it's really realllllllyy easy the rest.

Naughty Naughty haha.

Looks like it's fairly straight forward from here. Add a check at the end on newthread.php for text containing http://www.youtube.com/*** in $newpost with a check until the next character of whitespace is hit. Store that text in a string? (not sure about php) and check against a database of other stored strings.

I know that there are a lot of modifications that have been made to the site's original coding though so it would probably be best to download the core files from this site and throw up a quick demo site somewhere for testing. Sounds like Ownage doesn't want it though. I'm still satisfied with the VB knowledge gained haha

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lol yeah, gotta love it when you learn new things -G

[Danny Milonakis]

instead of this fancy ass technology why dont you just catalog all posted videos by titles and include a description/link so people can search to see if that video has been posted before.

[George]

instead of this fancy ass technology why dont you just catalog all posted videos by titles and include a description/link so people can search to see if that video has been posted before.

Lol what a coincidence, i did the first part of that task yesterday, this just retrieves the youtube''s video title:

<?php
    $vidID = $_POST['vidID'];
    $url = "http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/". $vidID;
    $doc = new DOMDocument;
    $doc->load($url);
    $title = $doc->getElementsByTagName("title")->item(0)->nodeValue;
	echo $title;
?>

<html>
    <head>
        <title>Get Video Name</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <form action="yt.php" method="post">
            <input type="text" value="Video ID Here" name="vidID" />
            <input type="submit" value="Get Name" />
        </form>
    </body>
</html>

here

[OwnagePranks]

Well, the problem is that you need a hardcore fan to do some major work on a site for free.

Yeah, but is that completely reliable? I've learned my lesson about trusting people who potentially really don't know what they're doing..

(some of you MAY remember the specific event on the old theme, where the forums homepage has all this broken code at the top. It looked like HSHDJ#Y*&*#&@#)OQIW)UISH*<>S>S<>

[wadoPotato]

Seems like a lot of work, and a lot of custom coding, if its even possible.

What I have seen on another forum is when you create a new topic, it displays a mini list of topics with similar titles, so you can check to make sure it hasn't already been covered.

That idea is more simple. but the original idea i still good.

[Purdy]

Yeah, but is that completely reliable? I've learned my lesson about trusting people who potentially really don't know what they're doing..

(some of you MAY remember the specific event on the old theme, where the forums homepage has all this broken code at the top. It looked like HSHDJ#Y*&*#&@#)OQIW)UISH*<>S>S<>

iv seen that happen a few times still =/
generally only when i press the back button when im lookin at a thread.. and it goes back to the sections

[OwnagePranks]

iv seen that happen a few times still =/
generally only when i press the back button when im lookin at a thread.. and it goes back to the sections

take a screenshot next time and PM it to me

[Keylogged]

Hey i got a friend who codes websites like this IL ask him if he can come on.

[Danny Milonakis]

i think ive already suggested this on another thread.