Massive BB Code replacement by MySQL query

[Dr. Katz]

Hello,

Forcing use of the new 'Insert Video' functionality, I replace my old [YT]video_id[/YT] tags in posts executing this query on MySQL:

update post set pagetext = Replace(pagetext,'[yt]','[video]http://www.youtube.es/watch?v=');
update post set pagetext = Replace(pagetext,'[/yt]','[/video]');

But now, it's not appearing the embedded player till I manually edit each post. I noticed that the new code that is generated after editing looks like this:

[video=youtube;video_id]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=video_id[/video]

Therefore, for embedded player displaying I must expand the [video] tag with the parameters in bold, but I don't know what query I should run in mysql to capture the appropiate video_id from the URL...

I saw something like this, but I think it's not the case...

Thanks for your help!!!

[Thr33]

ahhh, you see when you watch a youtube video via the host website it uses "/watch?v=" but to embed it you use "/watch/v/". i still use my own youtube bbcode which looks like this:

<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/{param}" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"></embed>

i suppose you could make this more user-friendly by allowing members to add whole youtube link and replacing the code above to correct it for embedding.

[eJM]

Originally Posted by Dr. Katz

update post set pagetext = Replace(pagetext,'[yt]','[video]http://www.youtube.es/watch?v=');
update post set pagetext = Replace(pagetext,'[/yt]','[/video]');

I have a question regarding your query that doesn't have anything to do with videos, but does have something to do with the text or a URL in a lot of posts. I found this topic via Google because of my particular issue, so others may come to find a similar solution. I hope you can help.

I understand the query to run in the vBulletin AdminCP is:

UPDATE tablename SET tablefield = replace(tablefield,"findstring","replacestring");

My table name is tfppost (I use table prefixes), but I wasn't sure I knew what the tablefield was called. You call it pagetext, but I would like to know if the table prefix applies to this as well. I'm very hesitant to run the query for fear of botching it until I have all the syntax down pat. I do have database backups, but that's a hassle I'd like to avoid by making the query right the first time around. I am trying to change a URL (not the BBCode, just the URL inside the BBCode).

Thank you for any guidance.

Jim