Editing a php script

Discussion in 'PHP' started by J8Diamonds, Jan 30, 2008.

  1. #1
    I don't understand anything about php, only barely got my head around css and xhtml.

    The only experience I have is through Joomla and Drupal and not to the extent of fully editing templates or code, so I'm after some help.

    I bought this site from here and it pulls in youtube videos by keywords automatically.

    Only problem is when people tag videos incorrectly and 'off topic' videos show up. I want to find some way to delete or edit what videos it pulls in.

    I'm not sure how it works, from what I understand it pulls in vids as they are uploaded. It doesn't have a database so I'm not sure how it figures out what videos to pull in (beyond the keyword list), how often to update and how to display.

    Now I don't really know where to start looking. I'm happy jumping in the deep end if somebody can tell me if selecting videos to delete is possible and what controls it.

    Alternatively if the script needs edited I'm happy to pay for someone to do that. Indeed I shall also post this in services.

    All help appreciated.
     
    J8Diamonds, Jan 30, 2008 IP
  2. shallowink

    shallowink Well-Known Member

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    Would have to know what script it is first. Should be some way to control it.
     
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  3. itliberty

    itliberty Peon

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    the problem with php is that is it server side code. therefore no one is going to be able to see what it is doing without a copy of the script. We cannot see anything except for the output it creates with your link..
     
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  4. seoyo

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    It's going to be really hard to give any constructive feedback on this unless the source code for the site is made public. The best anyone can really do at this point is guess.

    My guess is that it is just spidering a search page on YouTube for keywords, and then embedding the video URLs on the page for matching keywords. The details of the code though are hard to know.
     
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  5. J8Diamonds

    J8Diamonds Active Member

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    Ah,

    well, see I'm learning already :)

    If somebody is fairly confident they can edit it to do what I want I'm sure I can give them access to it.
     
    J8Diamonds, Jan 30, 2008 IP