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.

[MahdyE23]

So, what section would that code be added in? Thanks!

[ar15dcm]

What would be easier, adding the CMS functionality to this mod, or creating a separate mod to handle video links in the CMS?

[I.G.O.T.A.]

Installed.

Works perfectly on 4.2.1.

Thank you!

[Wajow-community]

Thnx!!! This is what i have searched. installed.

[tnsgaming]

Great plugin. Works great.

[SupportAM]

will that work for 3.6.7 ?

[alexm]

Originally Posted by CLF

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone could help me with this. Everything works perfectly fine - I run 4.2.0 PL3, but when the format is like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=

it doesn't convert. I would be grateful if you could help me on this one.

Thank you in advance!!!

This is the Regex I'm using:

/<a href=\"https?:\/\/(([a-zA-Z]{0,3}.youtube\.com\/watch\?(.+?&amp;)?v=)|(youtu\.be\/))([a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)(.*?)?\"( target=\"_blank\")?>.*?<\/a>/s

Position Index: 5

Takes care of some of the "feature" parameters that crop up in URL's and also new lines that can happen inside a href tags when a link is copied from some browsers

[peril]

works great on 4.2.2. Thanks.

[Disco_Dave]

Great mod, but for some reason this has stopped working for us. using vB4.2.2

**sorry got it sorted**

[409industries]

Marked as installed. Works as advertised... thank you! (vb 4.2.2)