PHP Melody

PHP Melody has been for many years the primary go-to tool when it comes to building video sharing and movie viewing sites.

This utility features a top-level administration panel where webmasters can add content to their site or manage the content users upload via their frontend profiles.

There are tools and features included for managing every aspect of the site, from the page layouts, to the video library, the published blog entries, the site's pages, images, video categories, comments, user details, ads, and so on.

You can rest assured everything is covered and the webmaster will be fully in control over his site.

PHP Melody can be used in open or closed installations, meaning users must register and login to access the site, or they can view its content freely.

Users can also share videos on various social networks, or admins can opt to use PHP Melody's community building features and use an internal like and rating system, showing favorite or watched videos on the users' own personal pages.

And the best feature yet is that you can also use PHP Melody for live video streams as well, thanks to the RTMP support the platform comes with.

What is new in this release:

• Added the new reCaptcha (i.e. the "I'm not a robot" one).
• Added support for YouTube importing from YouTube channels which don't have a username (E.g. UCgef_fFE9FEFZGQcHqp9aZw).
• Added the Farsi language/translation.
• Improved auto-reporting for videos. A new video checking procedure was added to make use of the existing APIs for YouTube, Vimeo, etc.
• Extended the "pre-roll video ads" support to all video players.
• Extended the admin's control over video embedding and video comments. Now those settings/rules can be changed for each video in part or site-wide.
• Added "Watch Later" functionality to all video listings. Registered users can now save videos in their own "Watch Later" playlist.
• Added "History" playlist. Users can now review or remove watched videos from their history.

What is new in version 2.4:

• Added the new reCaptcha (i.e. the "I'm not a robot" one).
• Added support for YouTube importing from YouTube channels which don't have a username (E.g. UCgef_fFE9FEFZGQcHqp9aZw).
• Added the Farsi language/translation.
• Improved auto-reporting for videos. A new video checking procedure was added to make use of the existing APIs for YouTube, Vimeo, etc.
• Extended the "pre-roll video ads" support to all video players.
• Extended the admin's control over video embedding and video comments. Now those settings/rules can be changed for each video in part or site-wide.
• Added "Watch Later" functionality to all video listings. Registered users can now save videos in their own "Watch Later" playlist.
• Added "History" playlist. Users can now review or remove watched videos from their history.

What is new in version 2.3:

• DailyMotion Publisher program integration (earn money with all your DailyMotion videos).
• 3rd party comments: Facebook comments and Disqus.
• New video sources: Facebook Videos, Vevo, Cloudy.ec and more.
• Significant performance improvements.

What is new in version 2.2.1:

• Back-end:
• Removed unneeded TinyMCE skins.
• WYSIWYG editor adds padding to uploaded images.
• Front-end:
• Floating Skyscraper ads will now be visible at all times.
• In-player preview images (thumbnails) were small; changed to fill the whole player area.

What is new in version 2.2:

• RTL support for the ‘Default' theme.
• reCAPTCHA support for the contact page.
• Privacy option to make the website non-indexable by search engines.
• Completely re-designed dashboard page with quick access to the latest items: videos, users, comments, etc.
• Completely revamped the regular & video sitemaps system.
• Sorting while importing from YouTube. Comes with all sorting options supported by the YouTube API.
• YouTube keyword & user subscriptions. Easy to track YouTube keywords and users for new content.

What is new in version 2.1:

• Cleaner look for the ‘Default' theme.
• Markup Schema support; good for SEO.
• reCAPTCHA support & honeypot traps for registration bots.
• Much improved ‘online/offline' status detection for users.
• Improved search suggestion. Uses fewer resources and yields better results.
• Option to disable/enable the commenting system site-wide.
• Users can see their submitted videos as ‘pending approval'.
• New function for users that suggests relevant users to follow based on a few factors.
• New translation for the ‘Thai' language.
• New ad zones: ‘floating ads' (new installations only).

What is new in version 2.0.1:

• Related articles were not working before (zero listings).
• Internet Explorer issue with video resizing.
• Vimeo.com videos failed to work with JW Player 6.
• The ‘contact' page was emailing messages without any formatting.
• Live search recommendations issues with Cyrillic characters.

What is new in version 2.0:

• Front-end:
• New video uploading procedure with an upload progress bar.
• Built-in floating sharing widget (Facebook, Twitter & Google) for videos, articles and pages. The widget can be enabled/disabled from Admin Area.
• RSS links for listing pages in the footer.
• New visualization plugin for mp3 files.
• Video resizing button, which expands the video player to the entire width of the page.
• 'Delete' button on each video page, next to the existing 'Edit' button.
• Included more details about video and article author with an option to follow this user, right form the content page.
• Back-end:
• Edit the '404 Error' and 'Terms of Agreement' pages right from the built-in 'Page Manager'.
• Option to choose which of the pages should appear in the header menu, or not.
• Built-in JW Player 6 license code field on the 'Settings' page.
• Optional keyboard shortcuts.
• Updated listing pages for videos, articles, pages, etc.
• Easily create new categories, without leaving the editing/submission pages (videos and articles).
• Easy to re-upload and/or download locally hosted videos without leaving the video editing page.
• Easily replace/upload video thumbnails without leaving the editing pages.
• New option to manually approve new user registrations. Allows you to create a closed community.
• New option to disable comments on any videos or articles.
• New option to auto-approve any uploaded/suggested video, without any moderation (use with caution).
• 'Custom Fields' which allow you to define meta data for each video, article and page.
• General:
• JW Player 6 was taken out of the 'experimental' stage and it has been fully integrated into PHP Melody v2.0.
• Totally revamped the video embed codes, which now include the option to show pre-roll ads. Old embed codes will continue to work.

What is new in version 1.9:

• Mass image upload in the WYSIWYG editor for videos, articles, pages, etc.
• User registrations can be enabled/disabled.
• User video suggestions can be enabled/disabled.
• The site can now be put in ‘maintenance mode', restricting access to all visitors.
• Articles can be marked as ‘Sticky'.
• Rich snippet support aimed at enriching search engine listings.
• Rich HTML support for (article & video) categories and a few extras.
• Logo upload integrated the back-end (on the newly created ‘Layout Settings' page).
• Live theme editor and a ‘Theme Store' incorporated in the back-end.
• Customizable size for uploaded thumbnails and avatars.
• Pre-roll static ads with HTML support, time limit and more.
• User login with email and/or username.

What is new in version 1.8.1:

• PHP 5.4+ compatibility issue
• Front End & Admin Area issues with the layout and functionality, caused by the recent JQuery update
• Comment listings issue (found when there were only two comments in the list)
• Language files were updated as some were missing the translation for the word "video"
• Couple of JavaScript issues/errors
• Robots.txt was updated to exclude certain files from being indexed into the search results
• Youtube source fix for IPv6 issue
• Vimeo https:// links are now accepted
• DailyMotion source fix
• Article categories drop-down menu fix
• Admin Area login fix

What is new in version 1.8:

• Twitter-like user following system
• Facebook inspired notifications and status updates
• Activity stream

What is new in version 1.6.7:

• Fixed the database backup procedure
• Fixed problems in mp4 and flv uploading
• Fixed username renaming issue
• Fixed ‘private article' preview page
• Fixed vulnerability issue where moderators can make themselves admins
• Fixed the MegaVideo thumbnail issue
• Updated installer
• Updated phpmailer class included
• Improved number formating for more readable data
• Caching of categories for reduced MySQL load and increased speed
• Video chart optimization
• A few other minor issues

Requirements:

• PHP 5 or higher
• MySQL 4 or higher