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.

[SpeedyHire]

nice one, thanks

[ProFifaLeagues]

Will this work below 4.1.2????

[Disasterpiece]

Originally Posted by rammieone

Will this work below 4.1.2????

It should work, yes. Only one way to find out :P
I started and developed the plugin on vB 4.1.2 so I can't guarantee it works with older versions.

[zelnik]

brilliant thanks

[grc]

Originally Posted by Disasterpiece

@grc: sure it can. It basically checks for an occurence in the html-string, grabs a part of it (in this case the video-id) and replaces it with another string.
If you can give me specific information on how that picasa thing is formed, I can write you a plugin for that purpose.

Cool - here's a link to a slide show:

PHP Code:

<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="https://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" width="400" height="267" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&hl=en_US&feat=flashalbum&RGB=0x000000&feed=https%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fnazarenealvin%2Falbumid%2F5440810094021987121%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Den_US" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed> 


username: nazarenealvin
albumname: 2010NewCross

Is it do-able?

[Disasterpiece]

Originally Posted by grc

Cool - here's a link to a slide show:

PHP Code:

https://picasaweb.google.com/nazarenealvin/2010NewCross?feat=directlink 


username: nazarenealvin
albumname: 2010NewCross

Is it do-able?

I don't see any kind of embed-code. How does it work?

[grc]

Originally Posted by Disasterpiece

I don't see any kind of embed-code. How does it work?

Sorry, grabbed the wrong code - I just edited the post to include the embed code. If it's too much, no worries - thanks for thinking about it.

[BadgerDog]

Great idea .... :up:

Just installed and for testing on 4.04pl1 ....

Seems to be working just fine ....

Really valuable addition to our site and saves me a lot of time checking posts and converting the manual links to BBCode [video] links ....

Slick the way it does the conversion during the "submit" part of the post creation or editing ...

Thanks for this ...

Regards,
Doug

[ProFifaLeagues]

Originally Posted by Disasterpiece

It should work, yes. Only one way to find out :P
I started and developed the plugin on vB 4.1.2 so I can't guarantee it works with older versions.

Installed and working fine on 4.0.6
Thanks mate saves a lot of work for us

[Disasterpiece]

Just updated with newer version.

I missed the conversion in post preview and the reviewbits, so here they are.

Same procedure, now there are 3 plugins. You can enable/disable the plugins by itself if you want to disable a specific feature.