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

[Alfa1]

Extremely nice! Many thanks for your work.
I think I have a pretty good idea on which sites you suggested. It would be awesome if more video sites where implemented.

[|oR|Greg]

I got StreetFire.net working!!!!! :P Only slight drawback is that you have to tell your members not the post the URL with the .htm otherwise LDM will treat it as an invalid filetype, or as a regular link, and not play inline. I'm sure Andrew can make it work properly though...

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

Extremely nice! Many thanks for your work.
I think I have a pretty good idea on which sites you suggested. It would be awesome if more video sites where implemented.

So far I've done DailyMotion, Google, IFilm, MetaCafe, VSocial and YouTube.

Which others are the priorities?

[Alfa1]

CurrentTV (http://www.current.tv/studio/)
Vimeo (http://www.vimeo.com/)
Sharkle (http://www.sharkle.com/video/)
FreeVideoBlog (http://video.freevideoblog.com/)
MyVideoDe (http://www.myvideo.de/)
Yahoo video (http://video.yahoo.com )

[|oR|Greg]

StreetFire.Net
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=135464

I would love to get www.ThatVideoSite.com the problem is that you'd have to parse the page in order to extract the .WMV name, then port it into LDM. I personally am not up to it.

[|oR|Greg]

Oh, MySpace.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by |oR|Greg

Oh, MySpace.

Ok, I've done

- DailyMotion (url's of the form http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/XXXXX )
- Google video (url's of the form http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=NNNNN )
- IFilm (url's of the form http://www.ifilm.com/video/NNNNN )
- MetaCafe (url's of the form http://www.metacafe.com/watch/NNNNN )
- MySpace (url's of the form http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu...videoid=NNNNNN )
- StreetFire (url's of the form http://videos.streetfire.net/video/X...XXXXXXXXXX.htm )
- Videac (url's of the form http://www.vidiac.com/.../XXXXXXXX-X...XXXXXXXXXX.htm )
- VSocial (url's of the form http://www.vsocial.com/video/?d=NNNNN )
- YouTube (url's of the form http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNNNN )

That's enough for now...

Some of the others require a double processing of the webpage to pull out the details. It's doable, but it wait.

[|oR|Greg]

You're a King among men sir. A KING among men.

[rolandogomez]

So do we wait for version LDM 2.2.7 or do we apply this hack for youtube? Thanks, rg.

[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by rolandogomez

So do we wait for version LDM 2.2.7 or do we apply this hack for youtube? Thanks, rg.

2.2.7 will be uploaded in alpha stage within one or two days. I think it's stable.