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**Jezus** · 12-18-2007, 06:15 PM

Can some one HELP ME

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Originally Posted by whym

What do you need help with?

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sorry. But i was wondering if you knew how to make a website where a user can upload a video. its kind of like youtube,tinypic. Thanks in advance

**CSS4Life** · 12-18-2007, 06:16 PM

What do you need help with?

More information if this is a legitimate question please

Well that would be extremely complicated. I would imagine at the bare minimum, a good knowledge of a dynamic language such as PHP or ASP would be needed to create the pages automatically and upload videos etc. HTML knowledge would be absolutely needed. Javascript would probably be useful for something like that too.

It's very complicated and definitely not something worth doing unless you already have a great knowledge of a number of web programming languages.

**Jezus** · 12-18-2007, 06:28 PM

psht never mind. i know html and thats about it. iknow a little php and javaa but. err. im not up to that.!

**coolkbk585** · 12-18-2007, 07:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Jezus

psht never mind. i know html and thats about it. iknow a little php and javaa but. err. im not up to that.!

lol

I'm sure that if you wanted to, you could find a Joomla extension somewhere that will help you make a video upload community. Then you could get a Joomla theme, get it on your webserver, and be up and running!

Of course, that would be in the best situation. You probably would still need a basic idea of the PHP syntax to be able to do that.

**davet** · 03:52 AM

checkout the following to create a website like youtube

http://www.phpmotion.com/
http://www.buyscripts.in/youtube_clone.html
http://www.clip-share.com/

Or do a search in google for "youtube clone"

**webluq** · 12-19-2007, 08:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Jezus

sorry. But i was wondering if you knew how to make a website where a user can upload a video. its kind of like youtube,tinypic. Thanks in advance

ahaaaa
here you go : http://phpizabi.com

or try this one :http://vastal.com

**davet** · 12-21-2007, 03:53 AM

I also found some nice Joomla components which can be used to create a YouTube type site

AJAX Sandbox plugin for CB
ACHTube Component for Joomla Youtube site
hwdVideoShare YouTube Clone

**ADAM Web Design** · 12-21-2007, 11:05 AM

First of all, if you have to ask what it would take...you're not ready.

Second, if you require components to get you to where you need to go that are built specifically for the type of site you're building...you're not ready and you're entering a market that, if not oversaturated already, will soon become oversaturated.

You can't just say "I want to build a Youtube/Facebook/Myspace/X site", snap your fingers, download a few Open Source gadgets and think you'll have the next big thing. It doesn't work like that. Never has, never will.

The good sites are good not just because of their general concept, but because of the amount of subtle customizations and things that have gone into them, things that the plugins miss completely.

In other words, come up with an original idea and stop trying to copy the popular ones.

**davet** · 04:27 AM

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Originally Posted by ADAM Web Design

First of all, if you have to ask what it would take...you're not ready.

Second, if you require components to get you to where you need to go that are built specifically for the type of site you're building...you're not ready and you're entering a market that, if not oversaturated already, will soon become oversaturated.

You can't just say "I want to build a Youtube/Facebook/Myspace/X site", snap your fingers, download a few Open Source gadgets and think you'll have the next big thing. It doesn't work like that. Never has, never will.

The good sites are good not just because of their general concept, but because of the amount of subtle customizations and things that have gone into them, things that the plugins miss completely.

In other words, come up with an original idea and stop trying to copy the popular ones.

I'd have to agree to a certain extent but there are plenty of real world examples of successful sites that use component based software. Checkout www.siteuptime.com. They weren't the first to think of that concept and they use the software "AlstraSoft Site Uptime Enterprise". I understand PR means nothing but I am sure the site owner does decent. It's no YouTube, but siteuptime.com is one of the more popular monitoring services in my opinion.

There's also the hundreds of thousands CMS based sites to take into account. Some of these sites are successful because they are using CMS and component based systems.

Not everyone's goal is to start the next YouTube or Myspace or to sell their solution to google for 6 billion. Rather their goal is to create a site that works using software concepts bigger sites like YouTube and MySpace have already established.

YouTube and MySpace took off cause they had programmers who developed the best software for an already thought of idea. They didn't think of an original idea. The concept of hosting videos online and creating personal web pages wasn't an original idea YouTube and Myspace thought of. They just found a better way of doing it. It was already being done by thousands of users on the net. YouTube and myspace were just the first to create the best software to handle these already thought of concepts.

Now since YouTube has the best interface for sharing videos online and if that is what a customer requires, why reinvent the wheel?

For example... I have a church who wants to upload videos of their sermons to their website. Why not use a YouTube clone component for Joomla? There are tons on joomla's site. I'm not the best at everything related to web development and neither is anyone. There are programmers out there that can do things better than you and I both. Why not use their expertise, especially if they have an already created solution... one you can customize of course