Mini Mods - [YouTube] Integration with Links & Downloads Manager (LDM 2.2.6)

Intro/About:
If you're not familiar with Links and Downloads Manager you should be! It's one of the most robust hacks for vBulletin out there and allows you the Administrator to add vast amounts of content to your board on your own, or via your board members. This hack, for LDM 2.2.6 and vB 3.6.X will allow your links to YouTube videos to play inline within LDM.

This hack requires:

• 1 template edit (AdminCP ==> Styles & Templates ==> Styles Manager ==> (your style) ==> Links and Downloads Manager ==> links_playbit)
• 1 file edit (./includes/local_links_include.php)
• 1 new plugin
• 1 new gif file

So, let's get started, this whole process should take no more then 5 minutes, and please make sure you backup before you start, I am not responsible if you somehow hose your site. (Although this is such a small mod I can't imagine you could, but I've been wrong before)

In your links_playbit template find:

<td align="center">

Add AFTER:

<if condition="$player=='youtube'">

			<object width="425" height="340" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/$url">
				<param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/$url" />
				<param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
				<em><strong>ERROR:</strong> If you can see this, then <a href="http://www.youtube.com/">YouTube</a> is down or you don't have Flash installed.</em>
			</object>

</if>

The above width and height can of course be altered to suit your needs.

In your ./includes/local_links_include.php file find (around line 2590):

PHP Code:

            $musicbox_template    = '<a href="'.$LINKS_SCRIPT.'.php?action=play&amp;linkid='.$linkid.'&amp;catid='.$linkcatid.'&amp;page='.$pagenumber.'" '.$musicbox_window.' title="'.$vbphrase['ll_playme'].'">%s</a>'; 


Add AFTER:

PHP Code:

            if(stristr($linkurl, 'youtube.com/watch?v=')) {
            $lc_urlType = "youtube";
            $is_musicbox = 1;
            } 


Great! The hard part is over! Now, add the included Plugin, and upload the gif image to your Links and Downloads Icon Cache, for me, my Icon Cache is located at http://www.amacny.com/vb/images/ldm it's the directory where all your extension gifs are located. Make sure that the Plugin is turned ON. You should now be able to add entries to LDM for YouTube, and have them play within your own website!

Live Demo/Example: http://www.amacny.com/vb/local_links...=53&linkid=506

If you're getting an error stating that it's an Invalid Filetype. Go into your LDM settings, and edit 1 of these options, either: musicbox_filetypes, or musicbox_filetypes_divx, or musicbox_filetypes_quicktime, or musicbox_filetypes_realplayer. Remove ALL entries in the setting you choose.

Until I can make this mini-mod work WITH all those settings intact, this is the quick-fix. Chances are you're not using ONE of those players.

Don't forget to click

[Zowners]

Im using this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nxn6PRCEGu8

Again gives me error: invalid filetype specified.

[|oR|Greg]

<a href="http://www.amacny.com/vb/local_links.php?catid=53" target="_blank">http://www.amacny.com/vb/local_links.php?catid=53</a>

Try the link I made for you, seems to work for me. Which means you missed a file edit, I'm thinking the edit for the in your ./includes/local_links_include.php file.

Go thru the steps again.

[|oR|Greg]

Originally Posted by phill2003

Nothing showing using firefox

Tried the latest version of FireFox with the latest flash download... works fine.

[chorton]

I get this error
invalid filetype specified.

[|oR|Greg]

Make sure you edited the files as well as the template.

[Zowners]

Ok I reedited everything still getting the same problem

[|oR|Greg]

Can you PM me please with a link to your site, and an admin account that I can use to look into things. Also, attach your local_links_include.php file to this thread. You did UPLOAD the modified file after you altered it yes?

[Zowners]

Heres my php file im using and ive pmed you

Edit: updated file im using

[Zowners]

Hey greg just wondering can you do the same thing to google videos?

Heres a link to one I wanted to add: http://video.google.com/googleplayer...99&hl=en&quot;

[|oR|Greg]

I tried them as well, and for whatever reason it wouldn't work. I'll keep working at it.