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http://www.moneym8.com/2008/08/05/how-to-add-youtube-videos-to-phpbb3/
AME 2.0 -Auto Media Embedding for posts, blogs, visitor and group messsages
AME 2.0 is the next version of the "Mod of the Month" winning media embedder that:
* Allows user to simply 'paste' in a URL (i.e. a youtube link) without needing to know any special tags. However instead of displaying just the URL, it will show the media within the post
* is lightweight as it does all of her chores without the overhead of having 1 bbcode per pattern or trying to parse a post every single time it gets displayed with a bunch of patterns. AME radically reduces overhead and speeds up processing. The only time ame will kick in is after creating a new post or after editing an existing one (or if an ame tag is found)
* is extensible. She allows you to add, edit, delete, import and export patterns. That way you can decide which services to support, how they should look and then share them with others! At time of typing this, there are over 150 media sites that have been contributed by script members.
* can extract the title (requires your server to allow url wrappers with fetch_contents)
* can extract embed code from sites whose URLs do not contain sufficient information to embed the video
* can rebuild your old posts to convert your 'other' mediaish tags into URL tags.
* can rebuild your old posts, blogs, comments, visitor and social group messages to convert URL tags into ame tags where needed
* can convert her codes BACK to url codes so you're not stuffed with a bunch of dead tags if you uninstall!
* won't uglify your site by having videos appear in quotes, php, code or html blocks (blech!)
* can be globally disabled
* can be excluded from forums
* can exclude usergroups
* can be toggled on/off per post, blog, comment, visitor and social group message
* would cook dinner for you if she had arms
* can wrap the output in a 'container' with original URL
* has a super comprehensive admincp help system. Yes, I actually took the bloody time to add all the info you need into script's admincp help system. If you ask a silly question in this thread that is addressed in the help system, you will be taunted.
* is fully phrased
* has hooks around integral operations so you can extend it
* Supports embedding in scriptBlog, Visitor Messages and Social Groups.
* Can be disabled in one or more of the following sections: Posts, scriptBlog, Visitor Messages and/or Social Groups
Apart from the additional areas of support around scriptBlog, Visitor Messages and Social Groups, little has changed about AME since version 1.0 released over a year ago. I cleaned up a few minor bugs, trimmed and updated the default definitions.
Which sites are supported?
At time of counting this, there are about 170 sites supported. But I have only included a few common standards as default (yahoo, youtube, myspace, google and Amazon). Why only these? AME was designed with its own import and export system that enables users to create or modify definitions and share them with the community. This keeps the system lightweight, customisable and saves us all from having to upgrade every time a media site changes their URL structure or if I add another site.
Check out the 'add ons' section of this post below to see availible add-ons.
2.5 Pre-Release information
Attached to this post is pre-release of version 2.5
2.5 is a pretty major upgrade from the 2.0 series and adds the following functionality to 2.0:
* New in Beta 3 - Validation ability. This will help prevent media being embedded that can not be embedded (i.e. youtube videos that the author has stipulated can not be shown off of youtube). This option requires the extraction option to be turned on and a valid validation regexp. I have included one in the default youtube version. When a video on you tube gets embedded, but the author doesnt allow embedding, a link (with icon) is shown instead.
* Ability to prevent non authorised usergroups from viewing (see Readme file in zip for more info)
* Usergroup permissions (edit usergroup to adjust edit/view permissions)
* Template driven system - uses templates now instead of 1 master replacement (see Readme file in zip for more info)
* Signatures supported
* Different sizes and template configurations for each supported zone (posts, blogs, groups, visitor messages and signatures)
* A couple new hooks (Mainly to support a future add on for AME media in profiles)
* Notfication system (similar to script's to check for errors)
* Definition keys for easier updating of definitions and to use in templates
* File caching system which radically reduces processing
* And more that I cant think of off the top of my head!
I think that description explains everything...* Allows user to simply 'paste' in a URL (i.e. a youtube link) without needing to know any special tags. However instead of displaying just the URL, it will show the media within the post
I would like to see such MOD here, but this feature, for example, is not mandatory for me:columbusgeek wrote:I see her point. vB has it as a mod and it's brilliant.
Because I saw some problems with one vB forum that was eating some words in the title. Specially words using acute accent/circumflex, diacritic marks used in many modern written languages with alphabets based on the Latin, Cyrillic, Greek/etc. scripts. Not sure if was admin's fault, or the MOD itself, considering the creators can be americans and might not use those diatric marks.* can extract the title (requires your server to allow url wrappers with fetch_contents)
I wonder if this MOD uses HTML of some sort since some users reported that phpBB 3 was not allowing HTML to be used.* Allows user to simply 'paste' in a URL (i.e. a youtube link) without needing to know any special tags. However instead of displaying just the URL, it will show the media within the post
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[youtube]{TEXT}watch?v={TEXT1}[/youtube]
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<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="{TEXT}v/{TEXT1}&rel=en&fs=1&color1=0x234900&color2=0xd4d4d4"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="{TEXT}v/{TEXT1}&rel=en&fs=1&color1=0x234900&color2=0xd4d4d4" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
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YouTube: [youtube]Link to YouTube Video[/youtube]
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoZrlEFUmf0[/youtube]