embed youtube videos in posts

Hello folks, is there any way to safely embed a youtube video in a post, it has been requested by my users and i think it is a good idea.

something like [youtube]videocode[/youtube]

what do you think?

thanks.

Seems quite simple:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1fwPU2C_kk[/youtube]

should return this:

<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="[www.youtube.com] name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="[www.youtube.com]; type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>

the simple text replacement module can do this.

Brian - Personal Blog

ok, i´ll check this out thank Brian.

BTW, I sent you an email a couple days ago.

Thanks.

Pepe

This seems to work using the Simple Text Replacement module.
Remember to change the comparison type from string to PCRE.

Paste the following in directly:

String to match:

[youtube\](.*?)[\/youtube\]

Replacement:

<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="\1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="\1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>

Hope this helps someone.
Also, if anyone can see a mistake, or possible security risk, please let me know!

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If someone feels like posting the mods needed to add this tag to Maurice's enhanced text / smiley editor that would be appreciated! :D

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Just enable HTML comments in your settings.. That should allow it...

I added two lines of code to the bbcode mod:


Add this line at the end of the $search = array(

      "/[video\](.+?)[\/video\]/is",

and following to the end of the $replace = array(

       
        "<embed style=\"width:400px; height:326px;\" id=\"VideoPlayback\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"$1\" flashvars=\"\"> </embed>",

To insert video to a message, just copy (only!) the Url from embedding-code between the videotags, like

[video]http://www.youtube.com/v/ekcYc3zrJHI[/video]

Works for youtube and google as well!

I wrote a module which can be used to display YouTube and Google URLs as embedded video

I discovered that there was more to it than the above to make it work easy for my users. Especially the fact that they will simply copy and paste video viewing page URLs instead of the actual video resource URLs, in which case the video would not load. That made it necessary to do some more work.

Currently, the module only supports YouTube and Google URLs, because I do not simply run [video] tag replacements but do some URL analyzing as well. Different video sources require different URL handling in my mod. Unknown resources are still displayed as a link to the video page.

See this thread for the module.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/13/2007 07:11AM by mmakaay.