Mini Mods - YouTube URL Converter/Fix by BOP5 (replaces youtu.be with youtube.com)

Version 1.2
1.0 - Initial Release
1.1 - Bugfix
1.2 - Bugfix

This is a very simple mod that will convert any links to videos on youtu.be to full www.youtube.com URLs.

This will be done everytime a new post is created or edited.

The purpose of this mod is to allow mods like AME 2.5 to work properly with the new shorter youtu.be share URLs.

It is preferable to use the original www.youtube.com URL because it will work with video titles and retain deep embedding support.

There are no options, just import the prodct in the usual way and it is installed and working.

If you ever need to disable it, disable the product from your Product Manager in Admin CP. Or uninstall.

*THIS WILL NOT CHANGE OLD POSTS UNLESS YOU EDIT and RE-SAVE THEM*

Example:

If someone posts:

http://youtu.be/YqlzuQfTwUk

It will be converted to:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqlzuQfTwUk

before being saved. This will allow a mod like AME to convert it to an embdded video using the standard YouTube.com definition.

This mod does NOT embed videos. It is only useful if you run a mod like AME already.

This mod works on Vb 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, and 4.x.

Please Mark as Installed if you use this.

[cstreater]

OMG thank you! The mods you've created for our forum are definitely appreciated. Youtu.be links have definitely been a pain in my side.

The other guys I work with also love your PHP script listing all the forums & ID's. Due to the size of Android, and the number of devices they keep churning out, we have way more than I'd like to admit. Anyway, that's a little off topic from this thread. Bottom line is, thanks.

[BirdOPrey5]

You are welcome.

[Max Taxable]

Hey BOP5, this modification does not work in private messages, just so's ya know. Perhaps it needs a different hook location besides "postdata_presave" ??

[BirdOPrey5]

That is true, and yes it would need a different hook- will have to investigate.

[BirdOPrey5]

If anyone wants this to work on PMs- go to your Admin CP -> Plugin Manager -> Add New Plugin

product: YouTube URL Converter by BOP5

hook: private_insertpm_process

title: YouTube Fix - PMs

Exec. Order: 5

Set the php code to:

PHP Code:

if (strpos($pm['message'], "youtu.be"))
{  
  $find = "#youtu\.be/([\w-]+)#";
  $replace = "www.youtube.com/watch?v=$1";
  $pm['message'] = preg_replace($find, $replace, $pm['message']);
} 


Set ACTIVE to YES and hit "Save"
This will do the conversion in PMs too. I didn't make it an update because not everyone may want to do it with PMs. One day if I add options to this product I can make it something you may enable or disable.

[Max Taxable]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

This will do the conversion in PMs too. I didn't make it an update because not everyone may want to do it with PMs. One day if I add options to this product I can make it something you may enable or disable.

We can disable it in plugin manager.

Thanks for this, some of my people like to send videos via the PM system and if they used that "short" URL my embed plugin wouldn't work in PM either, they would get only the live link.

This fixes that issue nicely.

[mykkal]

Anyway to get it to convert old posts? I've got a few thousand of them

[BirdOPrey5]

Unfortunately no.

Not sure how much work you're willing to do but if you install impex, there is a tool that comes with it called cleaner.php that will let you run a regex on all posts in your database. You could take the regex from the plugin in use it in cleaner.php to convert old posts.

[Max Taxable]

Cleaner is a dangerous tool though.

[BirdOPrey5]

It is- I would advise to make a full database backup before anyone actually uses it.