Tikiwiki-JW Flash players

Table of contents

• About
• Examples
  • JW Flash Image Rotator
  • JW Flash Media Player
• Quick install
• How it works
  • Create XSPF playlist
  • Plugin
• FAQ

About

I made a plugin for Tikiwiki, for JW Flash players - http://www.jeroenwijering.com/.

This plugin permits to show multiple video or photos on Tikiwiki, with a playlist. This playlist is stored on a wiki page, so, anyone can edit the playlist

Download (GPL2 license):
casainho.net-wikiplugins_jeroflash-01112007.tar.gz
parkouraveiro.net-wikiplugins_jeroflash-11052007.tar

Examples

JW Flash Image Rotator

Playlist: Playlist de fotos de espectáculos.

JW Flash Media Player

Playlist: Ena Pá 2000-Coimbra-30032007.

Quick install

• Make a readable and executable directory on your web server. My case: http://casainho.parkouraveiro.net/programas/;
• Change line $link = "http://parkouraveiro.net/tiki-index.php?page=$link"; of the PHP file cria_pls_xspf_www_parkouraveiro_net.php and copy It to that web directory;
• Download the JW Flash Players from http://www.jeroenwijering.com/ and put them on that web directory;
• Change the lines $file ="http://casainho.parkouraveiro.net/programas/cria_pls_xspf_www_parkouraveiro_net.php?page_name=$page_name%26playlist_title=$playlist_title"; and src="http://casainho.parkouraveiro.net/programas/jeroflashimagerotator/imagerotator.swf" of the file wikiplugin_jeroflashimagerotator.php and copy them to the Tikiwiki plugin directory: lib/wiki-plugins.

How it works

Create XSPF playlist

JW Flash players uses a XSPF playlist to store the data - link, name, etc... - of videos, photos and audio. I decided to put the playlist on wiki pages, so, It's really easy for me to edit playlists or anyone, with the vantages as diffs and versions on wiki pages.

Here is an example of a playlist: Playlist de fotos de espectáculos.

cria_pls_xspf_www_parkouraveiro_net.php, PHP file is responsible to read the wiki page and extract the playlist. It read the HTML code of the wiki page, extract the information and reconstruct the XSPF playlist.

In this PHP file, there is the need to change the line: $link = "http://parkouraveiro.net/tiki-index.php?page=$link";

http://www.ParkourAveiro.net is a community site about street sports where I use this plugin

This PHP file should be stored in some dir on web server, readable and executable by anyone. In my case, Its here: http://casainho.parkouraveiro.net/programas/.

Plugin

wikiplugin_jeroflashimagerotator.php PHP file is the plugin for Tikiwiki. This file should be stored to the plugins directory on Tikiwiki, normaly: lib/wiki-plugins.

This PHP file, reads the XSPF playlist when executing cria_pls_xspf_www_parkouraveiro_net.php PHP file, then pass the data of playlist to the JW Flash Image Rotator and configures It.

There is the need to change lines:
$file ="http://casainho.parkouraveiro.net/programas/cria_pls_xspf_www_parkouraveiro_net.php?page_name=$page_name%26playlist_title=$playlist_title";

and

src="http://casainho.parkouraveiro.net/programas/jeroflashimagerotator/imagerotator.swf"

In my case, I decided to put the JW Flash players in this dir on my web server:
http://casainho.parkouraveiro.net/programas/.

There are a lot of flashvars to configure the JW Flash players, please read the README file on the author web page: http://www.jeroenwijering.com.

FAQ