New Posting Features - Title Tag Grabber AND Video Embedding by BOP5 for VB5

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IMPORTANT! - Updated version released here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=325277

All New Version 3.0

Use version 3.0.1 on VB 5.1.5 and newer (tested on 5.1.7)
It has not been tested on old versions of VB5. If you still have an old version of VB5 try the Version 2.0 download.

This mod can do two things:

1. It can automatically grab the title of a page you are linking to
2. It can embed video URLs automatically

For example it will turn:

http://www.vbulletin.org

to

vBulletin.org Forum - The Official vBulletin Resource!

This is working on both the simple and complex style URL BBcodes, and it will ignore existing links if you have specified a custom title.

It can also turn a link like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxEPV4kolz0 into an embedded video without use of the [video] BB Code.

In addition there is an option to auto embed old links that were previously embedded by the AME 2.x mod for vBulletin 3.x. If you still have [AME] BB Codes in your posts this mod can do its best to embed them like they used to be with AME.

Video Embedding is currently working with Youtube (both short and original URLs) and Vimeo.com videos.

The Mod should auto install, upload files as instructed in Readme (everything goes in the usual place.) Clear the system cache to see the mod work on existing posts.

If you wanted to undo the changes made by this mod simply delete the files/remove the mod/ and clear the cache. This mod does not alter the original posts, only the cached copies.

Please "Mark as Installed" if you use this.
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[Vaskania]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

Thanks for reporting this, I will look into it and post an update.

It's nothing wrong with your script. The bbcode files in VB5 itself had to be modified. Instead of having an option in the admincp, they forced url truncation to 55 chars in the php code.

[indio007]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

In addition to embedding video URLs the mod can also work with databases that have been upgraded from VB 3.x where the "AME" mod was in use. The AME mod is not available for VB5 yet and I don't know if it ever will be. If you didn't clear the AME tags before upgrading to VB5 you probably have many video URLs still stuck inside the [AME] BBCode.. Such as [AME]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxEPV4kolz0[/AME]. This mod can auto-embed video URLs inside AME BBCode. Again it will work with YouTube and Vimeo URLs. (Both original YouTube URLs and the shorter youtu.be URLs.)

Hi, I'm trying to get this package to work to convert the ame tags. Our tag syntax is like this.

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adu-f9xERy8"]Mario[/ame]

Is this acceptable?

[mdawg]

Originally Posted by kehindelawal

still not working well. while some website display the title adequately, some just default to the LINK.

will like to get this working plss!

There seems to be no rime or reason to what URLs become titles and what become the default LINK.

Originally Posted by Vaskania

Installed and working on 5.1.6.

Having an issue when editing posts though. Links show up truncated when editing, and as such, the link is no longer rewritten once the post is saved. Not sure if that's an issue with the mod or VB5's forced truncation though.

/edit
Got the above bit worked out. Was the forced truncation. Modified the bbcode_url functions and all's well.

Yes I have noticed this too, and yes it is a major pain if editing a post that has multiple links in it. If you wish to preserve to titles you must copy and paste the actual URLs back in before saving the post.

Vaskania can you please advise on what exactly to do to prevent this from happening.

[mdawg]

Does this still work with 5.1.7 ? Because when I just posted a new URL in 5.1.7 with this hack running the URL appears odd, with the URL itself appearing between [url=" and
[/url] with the thread title sandwiched in between.

[BirdOPrey5]

I have just updated this to version 3.0 to deal with the problems reported when editing posts.

It is now working fine for me on VB 5.1.7.

Please upgrade.

I have set the minimum version to VB 5.1.5. If you run VB 5.1.5 or higher I strongly recommend you to upgrade to the Version 3.0 product available in the download links.

[mdawg]

Thanks! for the new version. Running on vb 5.1.7 now, and yes it maintains the thread title after editing and re-saving which was a real pain before when it lost the thread title.

Question: leaving this setting "Text For Pages With No Title" blank so that it just leaves the URL intact in full instead of the word Link when it cannot figure out the title - is there any downside to this? I mean, it seems like seeing the URL spelled out is better than the nondescriptive word link. If this is left blank it won't affect the mod's ability to pull titles or cause anything crazy to happen will it?

[BirdOPrey5]

No downside. Just personal preference.

[tomcoleman]

just installed this on 5.1.7

Now everytime I user posts you get an error saying "error loading Post"

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by tomcoleman

just installed this on 5.1.7

Now everytime I user posts you get an error saying "error loading Post"

Are you sure you uploaded all the files?

Uninstall/remove the mod (if you haven't already) to stop the error.

[tomcoleman]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

Are you sure you uploaded all the files?

Uninstall/remove the mod (if you haven't already) to stop the error.

yes - had to remove/disable to make the board work again

Can you fix?