Anthony Acosta

Thanks.
It worked.
However it turns out that its not returning what I need.

How do I check if there is a “featured image” attached to a post?

I’ve tried

global $post; global $wpdb;
	$attached_file_check = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT ID FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_parent = '$post->ID' AND post_status = 'inherit' AND post_type='attachment' ORDER BY post_date DESC LIMIT 1");

if( get_post_meta($post->ID, "_videoembed", true) && !isset($attached_file_check) )
	{
//function to attach existing videothumbnail goes here
}

It keeps firing the function leading to thousands of entries in my database to same thumbnails.

I am going to paste the entire function below, just in case you see other errors in my code.

function postmeta_img_fromvideo() {
	global $post; global $wpdb;
	$attached_file_check = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT ID FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_parent = '$post->ID' AND post_status = 'inherit' AND post_type='attachment' ORDER BY post_date DESC LIMIT 1");
//if(get_post_meta($post->ID, "_videoembed", true) AND get_post_meta($post->ID, "_thumbnail_id", true) != true)
if( get_post_meta($post->ID, "_videoembed", true) && !isset($attached_file_check) )
	{
		$videofilename = get_post_meta($post->ID, "_videoembed", true);
		$vid_sub_ext = substr($videofilename, 0 , -4);

		$thumb = $vid_sub_ext . '_1.jpg';
		$thumbnail = str_replace('https://www.mydomainname.com/wp-content/', '', $thumb);

		$wp_filetype = wp_check_filetype(basename($thumbnail), null );
		$attachment = array(
	     'post_mime_type' => $wp_filetype['type'],
	     'post_title' => get_the_title(),
	     'post_content' => 'Image for '.get_the_title(),
	     'post_status' => 'inherit'
		);

		wp_insert_attachment($attachment, $thumbnail, $post->ID);

		// Get Attachment ID for Post
		$attachment_id = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT ID FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_parent = '$post->ID' AND post_status = 'inherit' AND post_type='attachment' ORDER BY post_date DESC LIMIT 1");

		// Attached Image as Featured Thumbnail in Post
		update_post_meta($post->ID, "_thumbnail_id", $attachment_id);

	}
}
add_action('the_post','postmeta_img_fromvideo');

Thanks again for your help. I’m trying to automate this stuff as much as possible.

Those are some great ideas. I agree with you.
Lemme work on upgrading the plugin to incorporate those options.

Thanks

I have tried to reproduce the error in a 2.9.2 installation and have been unable to replicate it.

Is it possible that not ALL the files from the WP installation transferred?

Best way to troubleshoot this one would be to delete the plugin. If everything works then its the plugin, if not then the problem lies elsewhere.

I’ll monitor this thread for any developments.

Thanks John for emailing me.

have you had any luck with this issue?

I’m having the same issue on one of my sites, did you find a solution?

I’m having the same issue, any help would be appreciated.

For some reason the images in the trunk folder of the repository didn’t make it into the download. I’ve re-uploaded them and it should be fixed on the next refresh.

Great idea, I’ll add it to my todo list for this plugin.

thanks.

“An Unexpected HTTP Error occured during the API request”

Very annoying, don’t have a clue how to troubleshoot this one.

I’ve successfully updated 2 sites to WP2.7 with Podpress and have not had any issues with it.

I’m very happy with this combo, and for now I’m sticking with podpress

Quick update,

I added 5px padding on the story content on both the left and right hand sides. I’ve been trying to minimize the dominance of the left sidebar( With limited success). And now I’m trying to figure out the correct text size range for the sidebar stories.

We have a large “Winter Texan” population which frequents this website. They are generally older, which is why the text is a bit larger on the site. I used to have a toggle for the text size, but it proved itself to be a much larger hassle than it was worth.

Again, I really appreciate the feedback.

Thanks for your kind replys. I built it myself, it took about a week for the initial site to go up, and a couple of months of tweaking.

I was able to get the thumbnails working by using the plugin “Post Image”. To be able to show the thumbnails and preroll videos on podpress, I had to modify the player spawn code so that it would accept m4v’s for ipods.

Here is what I added to podpress.js around line 134

case 'm4v':
				if(strAutoStart == 'true') {
					strAutoStart = '';
				} else {
					strAutoStart = '&autoStart=false';
				}
//begin experimental  m4v

//src="'+strMediaFile+'_1.jpg"
//src="'+strMediaFile+'"

filename = (strMediaFile.replace(/.m4v/i, ""));

if(navigator.userAgent.match(/mac/i)){
strResult = '<object classid="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" width="320px" height="240px" codebase="https://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab">';
				strResult += '	<param name="src" value="'+filename+'_1.jpg" />';
				strResult += '	<param name="href" value="'+strMediaFile+'" />';
				strResult += '	<param name="scale" value="1" />';
				strResult += '	<param name="showlogo" value="false" />';
				strResult += '	<param name="controller" value="true" />';
				strResult += '	<param name="autoplay" value="'+strAutoStart+'" />';
				strResult += '	<param name="bgcolor" value="000000" />';
				strResult += '	<param name="pluginspage" value="https://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/" />';
				strResult += '	<embed href="'+strMediaFile+'" width="320px" height="260px" scale="1" cache="true" bgcolor="000000" showlogo="false" autoplay="'+strAutoStart+'" controller="true" src="'+filename+'_1.jpg" type="video/x-m4v" target="myself" pluginspage="https://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/"></embed>';
				strResult += '</object><br /><br />';
}
else
{

strResult = '<embed src="'+podPressBackendURL+'players/flvplayer.swf" width="320" height="260" author="FOX XRIO 2" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" repeat="list" stretching="fill" image="='+filename+'_1.jpg" flashvars="&controlbar=bottom&fullscreen=true&stretching=fill&repeat=list&file='+podPressBackendURL+'playlistm4v'+(Math.floor(Math.random()*3)+1)+'.php?filename='+filename+'&image='+filename+'_1.jpg" />';
}
//end experimental m4v

				break;

As you can see from the code, the thumbnails must have the same name as the video file.

In order to get the prerolls to work, I created files called playlist1.php playlist2.php and playlist3.php (one for each preroll) I manually alter these to fit the individual prerolls that I want to run. Here is the sample code for one of these.

playlist1.php

<?php
$filename = (isset($_GET['filename'])) ? strval($_GET['filename']):'117';
$previewimage = ($_GET['filename']) ? strval($_GET['filename']):'117';

if (strpos($filename, '.flv') === false)
{$filename = $filename . '.flv';}
$filename = trim(''. $filename);

$year = substr($filename, 0, 4);    // returns the year
$month = substr($filename, 4, 2);    // returns the month

//if (strpos($previewimage, '_1.jpg') === false)
$previewimage1 = $previewimage . '_1.jpg';
$previewimage2 = trim(''. $previewimage1);

header("content-type:text/xml;charset=utf-8");

print <<<END
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<playlist version="1" xmlns="https://xspf.org/ns/0/">
<title>Standard Playlist</title>
<info>https://www.foxrio2.com</info>
<annotation>Standard Playlist</annotation>
<trackList>
<track>
<title>Preroll</title>
<image>$previewimage2</image>
<location>https://www.foxrio2.com/images/drhospital.flv</location>
<info>https://www.dhr-rgv.com/home.htm</info>
<album>preroll</album>
<type>video</type>
</track>
<track>
<title>FOX Rio 2</title>
<image>$previewimage2</image>
<location>$filename</location>
<type>video</type>
</track>
</trackList>
</playlist>
END;

?>

I hope this information helps.

Podpress has been great. I would love to know if anyone has had any trouble making it work with 2.7? I’m running it on 2.6.3 right now and I’m not experiencing any problems. However these are live sites, and I don’t want to mess them up with an upgrade that will break it.

Thanks for the feedback.

I’ve updated the font to lucida, tahoma, arial, and have maintained the headlines in times roman. I’ve tried to separate the right sidebar from the content using a thin line. There’s not alot of room there, unfortunately.

As far as the footer. Its hard to change that without killing it completely in one of the other browsers. I’ve tested this theme on chrome, firefox, ie7 and ie6 as well as safari.

Seriously though, thanks for taking the time to critic it. I really appreciate it.

Here is the BROKEN code that I was hoping someone could help me fix.

<script type="text/javascript">
states=new Array()
<?php $my_query1 = new wp_query1('showposts=10'); ?>
<?php $i = 1; ?>
<?php while ($my_query1->have_posts()) : $my_query1->the_post(); ?>
states['<?php $i=$i+1; ?>']="<?php the_ID(); ?>"
<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php endif; ?>
function hideAllExcept(elm) {
for (var i = 0; i < states.length; i++) {
var layer = document.getElementById(states[i]);
if (elm!= states[i]) {
layer.style.display = "none";
}
else {
layer.style.display = "block";
}
}
}
</script>

And then to list the stories with toggles, I use this code.

<ul style="list-style-type:none;display: inline;">
    <?php $my_query = new wp_query('showposts=10'); ?>
    <?php while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
    <style>
   div#commentForm<?php the_ID(); ?>
{
  margin: 10px 20px 0px 20px;
  display: none;
}
  </style>
    <li><a href="#" onclick="hideAllExcept(this.<?php the_ID(); ?>);" rel="bookmark" class="headlines" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><img src="<?php post_image('/videopreview.jpg', false, false); ?>" width="50px" alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" border=0 name="<?php the_title(); ?>" /></a></li>
    <?php endwhile; ?>
  </ul>