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.

[voglermc]

Sweet! Nominated!

[fragov]

You da man!

[fragov]

How it can be changed to replace link to bbcode on newpost & newreply not in quotes?

[New Joe]

Works as it says.

[Sforums]

Great job!
5 star and nominated.

[grc]

10 second install! Works as described. Good job!

I wonder if the code can be modified to do the same with links to Picasa web albums, presenting them as slide shows?

[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.

[thr45h3r]

Thanks works great

[Gemma]

Thanks a lot