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.

[Disasterpiece]

Sry, this is just not what it's made for. I'll think about it as a separate plugin. In the meantime you can post in the mod request section, maybe someone else picks this up before me.

[voter]

After update to 4.1.3 all of our previous links based on Passive Video mode were no more useful.
Mode developer is no more "online" and I was already thinking to go "hard steps" replacing in SQL all that urls.

Thanks man, you are our life-guard, now all is working.

[COL NIL SATIS]

spectacular and so so easy ....superb

[CaptCom]

Excellent stuff, thank you!!!
Works on 4.1.3 #1

[slozz]

awesome works like a charm on 4.1.4

Regards,

[MySaltyreef]

sweet nominated it, very usable hack

[DailyAppDream]

Hey - I was wondering if it would be possible to get a quick port of this to convert iTunes links into a custom iTunes BB Code as follows?

Convert http://itunes.apple.com/app/consume-...es/id404175354

to [itunes]http://itunes.apple.com/app/consume-mobile-isp-packages/id404175354[/itunes]

(Basically replace http://itunes.apple.com with [itunes]http://itunes.apple.com then put [/itunes] at the next available space).

More than happy to ping over a bit of cash/ make a donation if it's possible?

Let me know.

Cheers,
- Adam G

[sdavis2702]

Works great on 4.1.4... thanks buddy

[titter]

Excellent mod.

Any chance to also incorporate some of the other built in video formats? Would be great to see Vimeo especially.

[dmandem]

Works great on 4.1.5

Thank you.