DocumentationPrimarily is this powerful PHP script designed as an Online Stream TV subscription platform, using the HLS live stream. However, the script can be equally well used to play all remote videos. The script will play the following types of videos: .webm, .mp4, .mov, .m4v, .ts, .ogv, .opus, .mkv, .mpd or embed.
The installation of this script "GLOTV - Global Online Stream TV Subscription Platform" is very trivial. Simply follow the instructions below and you will be ready to launch your new media site in about 5 minutes from now.
To install this script, simply follow the instructions below.
Here is a glimpse of some of the most awesome features this script has to offer.
You would rather add a custom stream or embed? No problem. Use the interface to "Add a TV Station" like User or lika Admin "TV Stations Management > Add a TV Station". User interface for Add a TV Stations enables or disables admin in script configuration.
You can tag a media file as featured and/or NSFW to make them stand from other media. Featuring a video will prioritize that video while tagging it as NSFW will prevent users who have NSFW option disabled to view them. Regarding NSFW, admin allows or denies users the ability to change the date of birth entered during registration in the script configuration. This has a major impact on NSFW.
Registered users can report any content. Whether it is a TV Station, user or comment, it can be reported. You will be able to moderate reports via the admin panel.
User has the option to purchase a subscription and at 7, 30, 180 or 365 days. This subscription will release the user of the TV Station labeled "Subscription" to watch for that period. If a user has not purchased a subscription. These TV stations are played only for the time in seconds that the administrator has set in the script configuration.
Once you have successfully installed the script, you will be able to fully customize it before adding first live stream. Login as admin and in the "Admin" drop-down menu, you see the red "Web Administration" field. Clicking on this field will open the complete administration of this script.
This option contains two sections.
It contains these subsections.
This tab groups the main settings you will need to customize your site. Their function is very easy to understand so there is not much to say more.
Here admin enables or disables the basic functions that the script allows. Also very easy to understand, so there is not much to say more. Note: If you enable Subscription Platform in the "Payment Settings" section, you must enter the time in seconds in the "Timer if User is not a subscriber" field. The number of seconds determines how long the player will play for users without subscription.
Also, this section is very clear and I think there is no need to extensively describe them somehow. Perhaps just a little thing: In section "Video Player as Defalt" you need to insert the JW Player and FludPlayer script links. Links where you get them are listed in that section.
Even this part is very intuitive. If you enable the "Subscription Platform". You need to set a default currency and pricing for each subscription type. The script uses the PayPal payment gateway. The PayPal configuration is discussed in the section PayPal Configuration below. If you have a PayPal configuration ready and tested everything in Sandbox. You are now ready to start PayPal Live.
Very intuitive. No need to describe more.
Very intuitive. No need to describe more. Just need to insert a link to ShareThis script with your own ID.
You can enabled catpha to prevent bots from creating accounts or submitting forms. To do so you have options: reCaptcha or Solvemedia. reCaptcha is a very popular captcha system provided by Google. It is free and you can use you Google account to create keys. Solvemedia is another alternative however this system allows you to monetize on captchas. Again very intuitive. Select Captcha type. Enter Public Key, Private Key, and Hash Key in Solvemedia. Or Captcha disable.
Read the separate section User Configuration below.
Here are two settings. To send emails, the script uses php mail () as the default. If your server supports SMTP, fill in the required information. The second setting of "Reset Script" is very important. This will delete all media, comments, ratings, users (except the first user), notifications, reports, followings and all uploaded content. This is a great way to start fresh. Once you press that scary button, there is no going back!
You can easily translate the site to any languages you want by using the built-in language editor. Simply open the generator and translate each strings. Make sure to save periodically in order to prevent loss of data.
PayPal is the most popular payment service on the web so being able to integrate your website with PayPal’s Instant Payment Notification Service (IPN) is essential if you need to process payments through your website.
PayPal Sandbox offers all of the functionality of PayPal, but uses "Fake accounts" created by the developer within the sandbox. You can create fake buyer and fake seller profiles, then test your PayPal integration through your development website. Sandbox accounts can be created on the PayPal Developer website for free.
When testing with the sandbox we use the www.sandbox.paypal.com URL. For live payments we need to use www.paypal.com. Our example code is configured to use the sandbox, but you can switch it to live payments by changing $enableSandbox to false, this will update the URLs used to communicate with PayPal.
Once the payment process is ready to be used by real customers you will need to disable the sandbox mode in the code.
That’s it. You’re ready to start taking payments online through your website.
Also, this section is very clear and I think there is no need to extensively describe them somehow. Below are a few important things.
The script checks the age of the user based on the date of birth entered at registration. This option is enabled or disabled by the administrator in the script settings. Age control has a major impact on the playback of TV stations labeled NSFW, by a user under 18 years of age.
You will notice that Facebook connected has now been integrated to this application. Users can now login with their Facebook and bookmark their favorite sites. The most important fields you must fill out are App Domains and Site URL. Following that Facebook will generate two keys for you. Go to admin settings and paste those keys. That’s it. If you did everything correctly Facebook connect should work.
In this version, twitter connect has been added. Now users can login using twitter the same way they use Facebook. You must enable twitter connect for it to appear and function. You can do that on the admin panel. You must register your website on Twitter.com.
If you did everything correctly, Twitter OAuth should work. If it doesn’t, send me an email and I will help you.
Google connect protocol has been changed due to restrictions from Google. Simply follow the instructions below and it should be fairly simple.
This script allows you to add any advertisement code you wish and it will display it wherever it fits. You can also enable or disable ads with a single click. The three main sizes are 728×90, 468×60 and 250×250.
You can easily display any of the ads anywhere you want to by using the following php code:
<?= $this->ads('SIZE'); ?>
where SIZE can be any of the following: 728, 468, 250, rep
However there are also two other slots. One that is reserved for video pre-roll and the other one video mod-roll advertisement.
This script comes with a powerful yet easy theming system that allows you to easily modify the theme or create your own. It also comes with a powerful theme editor and translation generator.
You can easily activate any themes in the admin panel by just clicking the activate button. If you want to build your own theme but don’t want to touch the default theme, just clone it and activate it.
You can use the the theme editor to directly edit any of the theme files very easily. You also get a powerful code editor built-in so you can safely code your way to success. As a side note, you should not be editing the PHP in the theme. The PHP code is formatted in a black color so you can easily identify it.
You can easily translate the site to any languages you want by using the built-in language editor. Simply open the generator and translate each strings. Make sure to save periodically in order to prevent loss of data.
This script includes a powerful plugin API so you can extend the script without having to touch any of the core files. This feature is currently in beta and the API documentation will be available after the script has been released.
The script comes with a couple of tools to allow you to maintain your site.
Sitemaps are an important strategy for you to get indexed quickly. Use this tool to generate an XML sitemap and then submit it search engines. Notice that the script will automatically ping Google and Bing to index the main sitemap once you generate it.
This script allows to you send automatic digests and newsletters to your users by using this tool. Digests are a summary of new media on your site. Note that if you abuse this tool you will be in trouble with either your host or spam databases! So it is recommended to not use this too often.
If for some reason you want to export your users’ list, you can use this tool. This allows you to define what you want to export. Simply follow the instructions.
Optimizing database should be a thing you do regularly as it is inevitable for data to get lost. This tool will optimize the database and remove old notifications..
Although this can be caused by many reasons, a common cause is that the script was not able to open and write in the file includes/Config.sample.php. Open this file and check if your DB info has been saved. If not manually replace the placeholders (like RHOST,RUSER) by the actual info. Another reason you may see a blank page at step 3 is that the script wasn’t able to rename the file includes/Config.sample.php to includes/Config.php. You will need to do this manually.
If the time is shown correctly then that means your server’s timezone was not set correctly. You will need set the correct timezone to fix this. To set the timezone, open the file includes/Config.php and add your timezone on right side of arrow. You can get your timezone from https://php.net/manual/en/timezones.php.
If you get a 404 page (the one generated by your server) then that means you did not upload the file .htaccess or your server doesn’t support the mod rewrite module. If you did not upload the file .htaccess then you will need to upload to the root of your server. If for some reason you cannot see that file in the package, you will need to create that file using cpanel’s editor (or equivalent) to create a new file named .htaccess and put the following code in it.
AddType video/mp4 .mp4 #Options -MultiViews #Options -Indexes## Uncomment (remove # ONLY NOT ##) line below if installed in folder and add folder name after / ## Example: Script is installed in /public_html/folder/ then it should be: Rewritebase /folder/ ## Then the files below should be (add slash to all): /index.php?action=$1 ## Uncomment the code below to Use PHP 5.4 # AddHandler application/x-httpd-php54 .php RewriteEngine On ## Uncomment the following line to use the multi-domain feature # RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourseconddomain\.com$ [NC] # RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://yourfirstdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L] #Rewritebase / ## Admin Panel RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^admin/(.*)?$ admin/index.php?a=$1 [QSA,NC,L] ## Application Handler RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^(.*)?$ index.php?a=$1 [QSA,NC,L] ## Error 404 ## ErrorDocument 404 /index.php?a=404