Mini Mods - Auto Youtube Link-Converter

So basically this is a total easy-to-implement plugin, which converts standard youtube links to video-embeds on the fly without urging users to use the video-button because I think it is unnecessary.


On post display, the plugin checks if the post contains at least 1 youtube link in the form of

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=somecode&some=params">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=somecode&some=params</a>

and converts them using the default vB video bbcode parser.

Code can be modified to fit your needs, altough there shouldn't be much to add.
If you're the special performance-freak, I'm curious if you can enhance data/query-performance. So let me know if you do.

INSTALL:

- Download attached XML File and import it as an addon.

Changes since 1.3:
- Now works properly on iPad

Changes since 1.2:
- Supports mobile devices with fallback-display if browser doesn't support flash/embed codes
- Allows the user to specify the above mentioned replacement code for mobile browsers
- Minor improvements & Fixes

Changes since 1.1:
- Moved regular expression and index position into admincp settings to allow easier changing in the future
- supports new youtube link format: "http://youtu.be/*somevideocode*"

Changes since 1.0: (or: why should I download that mod again?)
- Added Link parsing in post-preview mode and in post reviewbits (the latest posts you see under the new reply form)

Now every post containing youtube-links should display the embedded video instead.
Works with any number of youtube-links and any kind of text surrounding them.

Let me know if you have trouble/questions.

[Fready]

I've just tested it on vb 4,1,9 and it doesn't work, it just shows the url, i have it installed on 4.1.5 and it works fine.

So yes, I guess 4.1.10 and 4.1.9 it doesn't work.

Any help with this?

[Disasterpiece]

Originally Posted by Gleedo

Works fine on 4.1.9 - thank you

Originally Posted by Fready

I've just tested it on vb 4,1,9 and it doesn't work, it just shows the url, i have it installed on 4.1.5 and it works fine.

So yes, I guess 4.1.10 and 4.1.9 it doesn't work.

Any help with this?

Apparently there are others where the plugin runs just fine.

Some thoughts:
- Do you have any other plugins which might interfere with postings somehow? Did you try to disable all other plugins and it still doesn't work?
- Is the problem only with the wysiwyg editor? Or doesn't get it replaced at all?

[Fready]

Worked it out now.
This url doesn't change it into a video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=106JTwlD3Cc

But this same youtube video using this url does work and change it into a video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=106JTwlD3Cc

It was to do with the difference in url, not sure why though

[savraot]

Works fine on vb 4.1.10.

Thanks a Lot :-)

[New Joe]

I noticed if you change from the
Enhanced Interface - Full WYSIWYG Editing

to the
Standard Editor - Extra formatting controls

it doesn't convert
Any workaround for this?

[dsantana]

Thanks man... Works real well!!!

[Trevor Matthews]

Installed and working on 4.1.10

Thank you very much, this will save me ages correcting links from my lazy members

[normalize]

Thanks a lot.

[mystiksven]

This is cool

Many Thanks!

[Alshain2]

Thanks, it works fine

But how about making the same thing for the image links ! is there any mod for that ?

For example by adding the IMG vB code to every link ending with .jpg