turn embedded mulimedia on or off?

mindstool · December 17th, 2004, 02:14 PM

I want to turn embedded multimedia off... I searched and in the beta forum Michael was considering doing this but I haven't been able to find it in the 4.8.5 admin panel... Any insight?

Michael P · December 17th, 2004, 02:27 PM

Please don't cross post the same post in multiple forums...

Because there was no feedback, we never added a switch.

mindstool · December 17th, 2004, 02:44 PM

I see I wasn't here for the feedback...

Snoozed and losed I guess...

mindstool · December 17th, 2004, 02:48 PM

any way to do it manually?

Chuck S · December 17th, 2004, 07:06 PM

Not without modifying the template to the old style or manually adding a switch along with the old style and new style

mindstool · December 19th, 2004, 09:03 AM

So, I guess look at both templates and see what's different about them? I'm a hack when it comes to programming but I guess I could try. Has anybody else done this? What if I just took the whole embedding section out of it?

Please point me in the right direction.

Chuck S · December 19th, 2004, 09:11 AM

Exactly You Can Look At A New Showphoto.tmpl And An Old One And Should See What To Do To Get The Old Style Back Until We Support Something Like This

Michael P · December 19th, 2004, 09:42 AM

Actually, I believe you can simply remove liknes 386-406 in showphoto.php:

Code:

Content visible to verified customers only.

These templates rewrite the $mmthumb variable with the embedded versions; for now you can just comment out these lines or remove them. In an update, I'll make it so this feature can be disabledvia an option.

mindstool · December 20th, 2004, 08:35 AM

This worked perfectly for me... A side note... You can comment out just the stuff you want downloaded directly... Very nice. People can use this for future reference...

batboy · December 23rd, 2004, 07:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Michael P

In an update, I'll make it so this feature can be disabledvia an option.

I've just installed my first Photo Post website - very nice piece of work by the way. Very impressed with it.

However I was a bit stressed to see the video files streaming - think that would kill bandwidth on my servers.

Glad to see the option to turn them off will be included in the next upgrade - any idea when that will be ?

Michael P · December 23rd, 2004, 07:19 PM

We do releases every 3-4 months.

batboy · December 26th, 2004, 10:38 PM

OK thanks for that Michael. I was going to ask when the last one was (and hence the next one) but I think I found we had one a couple of weeks ago?

I edited the showphoto.php as above and it worked great.

BTW - will we need to re-install the original file when the upgrade is available?

batboy · December 27th, 2004, 06:45 AM

Hey Michael.

One other question. Is is ok if I edit the /languages/english/showphoto.php file on line 15 to show "This is a video, right click on the thumbnail to download" - adding the word "right" makes more sense. Otherwise when they click on the thumbnail the file starts playing in a broswer - same bandwidth problem will occur.

Chuck S · December 27th, 2004, 08:13 AM

You have change your language strings to your liking.

Michael P · December 27th, 2004, 08:14 AM

Yes, you can update your files (thats why they are there).