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It triggered a fatal error. Again!

Patriek Jeuriens — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:32:17 +0000

When I deactivated my plugin and reactivated it, the following error popped up: Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error. The weird thing is that the debug frame that should show the errors causing the plugin activation to fail was blank. There were no errors in my php_error log either.

This is the second time this lunacy had me baffled. Everytime it takes me at least 30 minutes to figure out why it happens. When $wpdb->show_errors(); is defined in your plugin, it won’t activate. Not sure why, but it just won’t activate. Removing the line allows you to reactivate normally.

Wordpress Video

Patriek Jeuriens — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:42:35 +0000

I was working on the backend of my highslide plugin, which has never came out of beta yet, and I found that the code was very difficult to manage. So I decided to take all that i’ve learned and start over. While this will be a significant setback in terms of time it will be a great advance in terms of stability. So far i’ve been working mainly on the backend, it allows you to upload and add streams to the database. The frontend will come later.

The framework has been build on three classes. Album, Video and Players. By using these classes it became so much simpler to manage. The video class is at the center of it all. So far i’ve got wmv, flv, swf, mp4 and youtube(hd) support build in.
Other plugins should be able to access the database by calling the video class.
$video = new pss_video; $video->load(1); $video->create_player();
The code above is an example of calling the API to create a video. The load function takes an ID of a video and populate the instance with data from the database. At present all videos are slided but I am working on normal embeds too.

Updated Nextgen Search to V0.0.2

Patriek Jeuriens — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:12:32 +0000

Ruben pointed out that I left a var_dump in the code, so I’ve taken that one out. The variable didnt do anything but it’s a bit untidy.

Tumbleweed… passed through here.

Patriek Jeuriens — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:30:09 +0000

It’s been a while since I been here, development has stalled a bit but there has been some progress. First off all there’s the new design, wait wut?, yes another design. Although I was happy with the marble it looked too clunky and I can’t stand that. So another post, another design.

Secondly i’m still working on the highslide plugin. It has made some good progress as well. There hasnt been a new release in a while, because time would not permit it and I still needed to iron out some bugs. I reworked quite a bit from the 1.1 beta release to make the code more readable and expandable. A lot of video options have been added and cleaned up excessive css. There’s still some minor bugs left but I think i got the most of them. I hope to release another version soon and upgrade the documentation a bit.

And finally I’ve been digging through the Wordpress documentation scrounging information about Widgets. It’s suprisingly easy to do. Ill be releasing a Widget Pack with some nifty functions.

Finalizing the next release

Patriek Jeuriens — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 09:18:28 +0000

Been busy with the new release added support for inline videos so you can display them normally. As well a ton of bugfixes and unfinished odds and ends. Going to release it this weekend. Still need to work on the user interface. At present its just shortcodes but that will be the next step. The plugin has more functionality than I envisioned at first, really working well.

Changed the layout again, but this will be the basis for any further theming. The marble texture is looking great, header still needs a bit of work as well as some entourage.