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.

[trackpads]

Very nice Thanks!!!!

[hoatran]

Something going not right here. the first post is OK, but it not work from the second post???

Can anyone help?

[420]

Does this work on VB 3.86?

[Juggernaut]

Originally Posted by hoatran

Something going not right here. the first post is OK, but it not work from the second post???

Can anyone help?

Same problem here.

[Disasterpiece]

Originally Posted by Juggernaut

Same problem here.

Can you give me an example link where the problem occurs?

[rjmjr69]

Works great very speedy and seemless on 4.1.7

[spencerp]

Hi, I'm trying to use your code to spit out the video's thumbnail which is linked. Like, making a custom bbcode for "youtubepop"

[youtubepop]JFwCCL0Vh6U[/youtubepop]

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/{param}.swf"><img  alt="YouTube" src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/
{param}/0.jpg" /></a>

Youtube Popup: [youtubepop]YouTube ID[/youtubepop]

Which of course works, now trying to do your plugin as such for Fall back code:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%1$s">
YouTube Video:<br /><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/%1$s/0.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Click here to view on youtube" /></a>

Doesn't work. Any suggestions? Doing that example for your own code, still puts out an embedded video... Any thoughts? Or maybe just try the bbcode in there instead of yours? LOL

[Disasterpiece]

the fallback code only prints, if the detected browser is a mobile browser.

I'm not sure what you're actually trying to accomplish... do you want only the image to be displayed and no embed code at all?

[spencerp]

Originally Posted by Disasterpiece

the fallback code only prints, if the detected browser is a mobile browser.

I'm not sure what you're actually trying to accomplish... do you want only the image to be displayed and no embed code at all?

Ohhhh okay... But yeah, rather than not have it embed at all, I'd rather it provide a decent sized thumbnail from the video, and make the thumbnail link to video itself.

[fishwestend]

Like a dream on 4.1.8!