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The next part, which was the most important one, was the ‘voeg video’s toe’ page; This is the special page, that grabs
random video files from a folder, and allows the admin to post a video directly on the video platform with specific
description, tags, categories and titles. The admin could select the starting thumbnail of the video. This page would also
grab a random fake profile from the database and post it as that user. On this same page the admin could, instead of
instant posting the video, schedule the video to be posted at a later time or even delete it from the folder. As stated in
chapter 3 this was one of the most important requirements. You can read about the creation of this page later on in this
paragraph.

The third part that stands out was the manager page. Managers were not a requirement and it was not mentioned to me
since the beginning of my graduation project. While I was working on the admin panel, the company directors came to me
and explained this new requirement to me. The client had decided he wanted to have a function, where users with special
permissions could login and they would have some more permissions on the website compared to other regular users.
These users with special permissions were called managers, and the extra permissions that they had was: they could login
to the admin panel, but inside the admin panel the only thing they would be able to see were a special dashboard and the
‘voeg video’s toe’ page. The client wanted to have some managers, and he wanted to pay them for every video that they
posted through the ‘voeg video’s toe’ page. This meant that I had to keep track of which user was a manager, and how
many videos this user had posted per day. On the dashboard, managers would be able to see how many videos they had
posted today, yesterday, this week and last week.

It was necessary for me to make changes to the already created users table in the database, change the different functions
that were using this table, and making sure users would have different permissions. Because of the appearance of this new
requirement, I had to go back and tweak a lot of the functions and codes that I already had fully finished. This again
brought different errors with them, and it set me back for a bit, putting me off schedule. There was not much I could do
against it, the client is always right and I needed to add this functionality. After tweaking and changing the existing parts, I
started to program the manager functions. Most of the manager functions would be contained in the ‘voeg video’s toe’
page, since that was where they would be able to add videos.

After the tweaking I decided to start with the videos page in the admin panel. I didn’t have to worry about the designed
parts. All I needed was to merge the designs of the page, and then extend it with functionalities to make it actually work. In
figure 16 you can see the designed video page and the functionalities that it contained.

Figure 16: The videos page of the admin panel