Abstract:
Joomla has become a most commonly used Content Management System which facilitates users to
build their websites on their own. Plug-ins, Modules and Components extend the functionality of
Joomla. Each of these extensions is rapidly improving to support various needs of the people who use
Joomla.
This research focuses on creating a plug-in which enables the user to play videos and audios without
searching other websites for video and audio files. Today, almost all video players that have been
invented for Joomla, play videos or audios once the player gets the external link to another website
where the media is currently available. The objective of this research is to avoid that and load the
video or audio from the local machine in order to hasten the process and make it more reliable.
The plug-in provides separate folders once the plug-in is installed, to hold videos and audios, which
can be saved initially by the administrator or uploaded later by the uploading method that is provided
by the plug-in. Once a user decides to watch a specific media file what he/she has to do is select the
desired file from the playlist that will be provided by the plug-in and the selected file will be then
retrieved from the correct file location and the player will then play the file. The importance in this
file retrieving is that the player reads the file not from an external link but from a folder that is
installed together with the plug-in. When the site is first created, the administrator is capable of saving
videos and audios that are related to the site’s definition in separate folders.
It is more efficient to avoid external links to retrieve media files that are needed for a website in order
to make it faster and easier for the users. Then connection problems and many other issues in playing
media files on a site would not thwart the frequent use of a website and it would increase the
popularity of the website gradually.
