Ewrick's Rabbit Hole

A little update of the elk_mediaplayer plugin, which was also the occasion to update to the latest version of JW mediaplayer.

Please note that as the pages I was using it on have moved from Textpattern to MODx and from JW Media Player to Flow­player, I won’t be able to update it any longer. Anyone inter­ested in main­taining it is very welcome to do so.

0.3 update

Thanks to Steve, the version works with JW FLV Media Player 5.

New vari­ables:

• playlist (over, bottom, right)
• playlistsize (number; replacement for plwidth)

Made XHTML 1.1 com­pliant by replacing commas in id="v_1,2,3" with under­scores: id="v_1_2_3".

To-do: Playlist images implementation.

elk_mediaplayer_v0.3

written by Yuki \\ tags: mediaplayer, plugin, textpattern

As I was pub­lishing a new version of my website, I noticed that some of the little ani­ma­tions I had pre­vi­ously inserted with the bas_flvplayer plugin had ceased to function. Well, appar­ently… because on other com­puters they seemed to still look fine.

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written by Yuki \\ tags: flash, plugin, textpattern

Here follows a short list of plugins I use with my instal­la­tions of textpattern (TXP) that I find dif­ficult to work without. (They are essen­tially to make the life of the web­master easier, the fea­tures are not so much user-oriented).

ied_plugin_composer, by Yura Linnyk

Allows you to edit your plugins, export them in the encoded form used by the admin­is­tration interface, etc.
Very useful for most plugins that don’t require external files to work.

rss_admin_db_manager, by Rob Sable

Allows to manage your data­bases inside TXP; a light-weight php­Myadmin. Extremely useful when you are coding a plugin and need some spe­cific field, or when you want to check some­thing inside the DB (size, etc.)

Even more useful is the inte­grated backup man­agement; you don’t even have to dump your database man­ually, it’s done with one click, and very intel­li­gently stored in the file system so that you can restore a pre­vious version with just another click.

mcw_templates, by Mike West

A plugin which allows you to export/import your system’s look and feel (forms, css etc.) in files. Pretty useful when you juggle in the beginning with various themes to test your system.

tru_tags, by Nathan Arthur

A very com­plete and well-thought tagging plugin. Allows you to manage your tags, insert them easily into your posts.

bas_lightbox, by Bastian Sackermann

Allows the inte­gration of the lightbox unob­trusive javascript image display tool.

asy_sitemap, by Sencer Yurdaguel or jmd_sitemap, (updated version) by Jon-Michael Deldin

Gen­erates a gzipped xml googlemap of your site

written by Yuki \\ tags: plugin, simple, textpattern

I was searching for some Textpattern (the CMS pow­ering the Jorid) plugin which could give me the pos­si­bility to display a playlist of some of Jib’s ani­ma­tions, and decided that cre­ating my own plugin would be quicker.

It uses Jeroen Wijering’s Flash Media Player to be able to insert Flash movies (.flv) into a webpage, in the manner of a local “youtube”.

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written by Yuki \\ tags: animations, jorid, plugin, textpattern