Public player descriptions render formatted HTML on the homepage.
Catalogue cards, embed meta tags, and social metadata use safe
plain-text excerpts.
Add/edit admin pages now use a rich description editor that preserves
pasted HTML styling, with a textarea fallback for no-JS.
External/YouTube-imported descriptions are sanitized before storage.
README now documents Markdown/HTML description support.
The main video page now uses the active video’s:title
description
canonical /v/<slug> URL
thumbnail as og:image / twitter:image
image dimensions when available
The standalone embed page also now emits social metadata using the video
thumbnail.
What changed:
Added pretty URL helpers/default setting in
[includes/db.php](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/mediaplayer/includes/db.php).
Added root rewrite rules in
[.htaccess](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/mediaplayer/.htaccess):/v/<slug>
/all
/search/<query>
Added Admin → Settings “Public URL Style” toggle in
[admin/settings.php](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/mediaplayer/admin/settings.php),
defaulting to pretty URLs.
Updated public/player/catalogue/embed/admin preview links to use the
configured URL style.
Added redirects from legacy ?v= and ?q= URLs to pretty routes when
rewriting is enabled.
Documented deployment and fallback behavior in
[README.md](/Users/tyemeclifford/Documents/GH/mediaplayer/README.md).
Ty Clifford