General support topic for Aeva Media (Latest release: July 28, 2010)

[Kindred]

you need a text editor which handles utf-8

[YogiBear]

Just a thought, sallanm, but do you have Super Admin already installed by any chance? A great mod but I have found that to be a culprit in preventing Aeva from installing/uninstalling correctly.

[Kindred]

there are a fair number of mods which may cause the subs.php failure...      in the case of that, you would have to manually install the code into subs.php and then let the system do the rest of the auto-install.

[babjusi]

It's a real shame how they treated you Nao, especially after all you have done/ contributed to this community.

[Illusive]

hmm , i use css on my page , its taking some of the effect from it , but not all

il try the firebug and see if i can get it to match

i had to use array , with spans on my most recent posts , soo i could edit the css inline

[anakmacan]

That's very helpful, i didnt know which file to edit !!   You mean Aeva.Template.php in "Default" folder, right ?

[Kindred]

that would be my guess.

[anakmacan]

Thx a lot mate.

[Hawkmoth]

Thanks for your reply

As I don't apear to have one I decided to switch the default language on our forum to English (none utf-8) (Sever settings > Core Configuration > Default forum language)

Seems to have stopped the errors.

Thanks

[Illusive]

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<?php
   
   function show_aeva_media_block()
{
   global $sourcedir;
   // Set amount visible
   $visible = 5;
   // Load the language file
   loadLanguage('Aeva');
   // Grab the file.
   if (file_exists($sourcedir . '/Aeva-Subs.php'))
      require_once($sourcedir . '/Aeva-Subs.php');
   // If it doesn't exist, tell them this and stop running.
   else
   {
      echo '<b>You don\'t have Aeva installed! Unable to continue!</b>';
      return;
   }
   // Use aeva functions to show the media.
   echo aeva_listItems(aeva_getMediaItems(0, $visible, 'm.id_media DESC'), true, '', 0);
   
}
// Run the function.;
show_aeva_media_block();
?>
using the code i listed above ,
how or where do i set the preview images to  1 size
i tried it under admin , doesnt seem to make a difference
its throwing off my design

[Illusive]

got it to work using firebug , thanks for the advice

now if i can just figure out how to make the recent image thumbnails all the same size!

[Deadairdave]

Hi, hope you can help; and apologies if this has been posted on other pages, but the search help isn't very productive!

I've just updated my forum (and test forum) to SMF 2.0 RC3 and applied the new mod to my test site, as I don't want to mess up the main site until I for one know how everything works, lol.

Anyhow, as my site is a music site, my members' post links to their (own) mp3s.  In the last version I was using, before the update, a small (I think JW player) would appear when the MP3 URL was posted into a topic.

On installing the new Aeva Media mod, all I can see is a line of the URL code, ie:

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Http://www.example.com/example_tune.mp3  How do I get the link to reappear as the flash player?  I've got the tick boxes selected in the following section on the cPanel:

Aeva Media>Auto-Embedding>Embed Local Files [Excludes attachments]>Allowed file extensions ....and have the 'MP3 files (via Flash player)' and 'MP4 files (via Flash player)' tick boxes selected.  Is there anywhere else that should be ticked to get these players to reappear?

Any help would be appreciated.

Dave.

[flapjack]

go to the mp3 details and you will see BBC link to it, something like:
[smg id=1986 type=av]

you need to paste this into your post

[IdanC]

Anyhow, as my site is a music site, my members' post links to their (own) mp3s.  In the last version I was using, before the update, a small (I think JW player) would appear when the MP3 URL was posted into a topic.

i don't know what changed to cause that issue, but there's a better way to achieve what you described. using the Foxy! addon you can allow users to post mp3 (or any other media type for that matter) and not only that the item will be displayed on the post, but it will also be added as an AeVa item to your gallery, thus enabling features such as direct linking, embed code, views count, rating and more.

highly recommended.

[Mick.]

Does anyone have a code that does not show item name, user name.... only the pictures?

Im currently using this one:

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global $sourcedir;

   loadLanguage('Aeva');
   require_once($sourcedir . '/Aeva-Subs.php');

   echo '<div id="aeva_pics" style="width: 100%;" overflow="visible">
         <div align="center">'. aeva_listItems(aeva_getMediaItems(0, 5, 'm.id_media DESC'), true, '', 0). '</div>
      </div>';

[Kindred]

I would assume that, if you read the aeva_listItems(aeva_getMediaItems(0, 5, 'm.id_media DESC'), true, '', 0) line into an array rather than just displaying it, then you can parse the array contents.

[jay.clark]

I am continuing to work trying to get Aeva to work on multiple sites, and continue to get weird partial results.

1. I am thinking that the reason that I am having so many problems with this mod is that it does not play well with other mods, has anyone else come to that conclusion?

2. One thing that seems to be common on multiple sites that I am trying to upgrade is an error message that I see when it does the pre-install check. (see below). Does anyone know what is being checked for in this step?

I have tried adding all of the elements required for subs.php per the manual instructions given on simplemachines.org, with limited improvements.  Does anyone know what the base problem is that is causing the check to fail at this point.


3. I have been unable to find instructions about how to use Aeva once it is installed, can anyone point me towards a source for a how2use Aeva documents.

4. One particular problem is that I have seen verbal comments that simply entering the URL for a You Tube (for example) video should embed this into a post, this does not seem to work.  However putting in the embed code from the You Tube site seems to work, is this what is supposed to happen?

5. Can videos be embeded in a media gallery?  If so, how is this done.

6. I seem to be having some luck embedding You Tube in the forums area, however I really want to be able to embed stuff from very funny videos http://www.veryfunnyads.com/?oid=26803. Are there instructions anyplace for tweaking the Aeva mod to use additional sources ?

Thanks in advance for any comments or ideas

[Mick.]

I would assume that, if you read the aeva_listItems(aeva_getMediaItems(0, 5, 'm.id_media DESC'), true, '', 0) line into an array rather than just displaying it, then you can parse the array contents.

This may need clean up.   I stripped the numbers of views, folder name, etc. and left the owners name.
It works for me but i cant figure out on adding the magnifying glass like in the original code i posted above.

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global $sourcedir, $user_info, $ID_MEMBER, $context, $txt, $galurl, $galurl2, $scripturl, $settings, $db_prefix;

   loadLanguage('Aeva');
   require_once($sourcedir . '/Aeva-Subs.php');
   $items = aeva_getMediaItems(0, 5, 'm.id_media DESC');

echo '

<table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="4">
<br />
     
';
   foreach($items as $item)
      echo '
<td class="windowbg2">
     <div class="smalltext" style=" line-height: 1.4em; border: 0px #000000 solid; padding: 5px;">
      <a href="',$galurl,'sa=item;id=',$item['id'],'"><img alt="" src="',$galurl,'sa=media;id=',$item['id'],';thumb" alt="" /></a><br />
     
      Owner: <a href="',$scripturl,'?action=profile;u=',$item['poster_id'],'">',$item['poster_name'],'</a><br /></div>';

echo '
   </tr>
</table>';

[luuuciano]

A little question...
Can I use aeva just for its Auto-embedder features (external embeding)... and do not use/disallow the gallery features?

[Kindred]

yes