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]

Did you change anything in the settings?
Do you use any other mods which might perform changes on the html source code?

The bugged-out html code isn't part of my mod. I just checked with IE8 and a vanilla mod-installation.. works fine for me.

[BadgerDog]

Originally Posted by Disasterpiece

Did you change anything in the settings?
Do you use any other mods which might perform changes on the html source code?

The bugged-out html code isn't part of my mod. I just checked with IE8 and a vanilla mod-installation.. works fine for me.

No, didn't change any settings that I'm aware of..

The only odd thing is that it appears in a thread where some posters used the built-in vBulletin [video] bbcode and your add-on code also was used...

Perhaps a conflict with [video] bbcode? Is there someplace I can disable that built-in code to test that possibility?

I tested it with IE8 and XP as well and it worked fine...

Something odd about Windows 7 and IE10 rendering?

Thanks for your help ..

Regards,
Doug

[Disasterpiece]

The thing is, I don't use IE at all, therefore I don't optimize anything for it since it's just a bad product. I assume the IE10 render engine does some stuff on its own and inserts some kind of additional code which messes up the site. I see what i can do, but don't expect miracles

In the meantime, suggesting a better browser to your forum users might be healthy as well.

[BadgerDog]

Originally Posted by Disasterpiece

The thing is, I don't use IE at all, therefore I don't optimize anything for it since it's just a bad product. I assume the IE10 render engine does some stuff on its own and inserts some kind of additional code which messes up the site. I see what i can do, but don't expect miracles

In the meantime, suggesting a better browser to your forum users might be healthy as well.

Thanks .. appreciate it ..

Is there any place I can turn OFF the vBulletin [video] bbCode function? I've looked everywhere and can't seem to locate a place where that's handled..

This seems to be the code that's hanging losse from the blank white video box:

"<![endif]-->" origwidth="640" origheight="385" aspect="1.66233766233766"

Regards,
Doug

[EliasAlucard]

This is a good plugin, but a few issues:

1) It should conform tp vB4.2 (I know it works fine, but still).
2) When one creates a YouTube link with text, this plugin shouldn't automatically convert it to an embedded videos.

Thanks.

[dizzynation]

Works perfect vb 4.2 PL3

[inigo]

I have a problem with new links:

http://youtu.be/f5FP2ty_J-w

It doesn't be recognised and changed to play the video,

Any help?

Thanks!

[tarun_ce]

awesome

[grc]

Is there any solution to the "related videos" that pop up at the end of the embedded youtube videos? Some of them are downright raunchy and inappropriate for our forum. I see that if you use the embed code that you can suppress the related videos, but not with the "share" code which works with this mod.

[Disasterpiece]

I guess you could look if a specific parameter suits your needs: https://developers.google.com/youtub...ers#Parameters
But that's not in the scope of the mod really.