Need Some Help With Dynamic Website

Question about dynamic information on website

[echoindia756]

Hi there,

I'm new here so hello everyone.
At the moment, i'm building a dynamic website. I'm hosting it all on my own servers, including PHP and MySQL so I have that all set up.
Now, my problem is I want to know how to add a section to my website which will have dynamic videos in it, on the homepage. I'm building it in Dreamweaver CS3. So if a user submits a video, this video will appear in the dynamic section. How do I do that in Dreamweaver CS3?
Any help much appreciated.
Thanks.

[physics]

Hi echoindia756 and Welcome to WebmasterWorld.com! [webmasterworld.com]

It sounds like you have all of the tools ... this is where you need to be creative. To me it sounds like you need

a) A form for people to upload media (videos)
- The form saves the media to a certain folder and then saves the meta data (title, name of file, etc) in the database.
- Note that this means you'll need a user login, etc script also!
b) The code to play the videos (flash probably) included in the page
c) Using PHP, dynamically pull info from the database and populate the flash media player with the correct info for the video to be shown

That's just my first guess. This isn't going to be easy - you might consider using Wordpress or Drupal to solve a lot of the issues for you (backend admin, upload manager, entry moderation, etc).

[echoindia756]

Hi physics,

Thanks for your reply and info.
Ok, I think i have the right idea.
As regards the form, where would I get the script?

For B, I was thinking of having the latest videos on the homepage in a thumbnail format, and having these constantly updating (dynamically) i.e they update every time somebody uploads a new video and I have made sure it's ok etc. Would that be possible? Or am I looking at a years work here? If so, I might look into drupal.
Any advice appreciated.
Thanks!

[AjiNIMC]

I have spent some time with videos, you need to take care of the extension. This can sometimes go little tough because various users will upload various extension. Using ffmpeg, we do the conversion and make the flv available, which is then played. You can try some of these applications to make it work. You can use clipshare.

Regards,
Aji

[physics]

As regards the form, where would I get the script?

As I mentioned, I think basing this part of your site off of Wordpress [wordpress.org] or Drupal [drupal.org] (both free and open source software) would save you a lot of time. I haven't checked but I bet they even have video video plugins.

[echoindia756]

Thanks both for your very helpful information. I had a look at ClipShare and it's exactly what i'm looking for, except it looks like it needs Linux and unfortunately i'm running windows server. Are there any other open source software websites like ClipShare.

physics, i'll check that out - thanks!