I was so impressed with the new oEmbed feature in wordpress 2.0 that I decided I would try and bring the joy to Joomla. I have made a similar plugin in the past “easiertube” which seems to be getting some good reviews, but a simply way which was much easier to extend would be great!
So in principle :-
oEmbed is a format for allowing an embedded representation of a URL on third party sites. The simple API allows a website to display embedded content (such as photos or videos) when a user posts a link to that resource, without having to parse the resource directly.
I have registered a project over at code.joomla.org and have an alpha version for Joomla 1.0 and 1.5 already. The regex needs a little more work and has to try and cope with the idiosyncrasies of wysiwyg editors but once I figure the 1 regex, I can do away with figuring out the others for easiertube.
So my plugin uses a number of little scripts, it does rely heavily on oohEmbed.com
oohEmbed is an oEmbed compatible provider of HTML embed codes for various web sites
So, just by pasting a url from youtube, the url is passed to oohEmbed.com and a nice little jquery script converts the url to a link with a class and is replaced with the actual embed code.
currently this plugin will only support a few providers, when I get it working as I want I’ll add more
fivemin
amazon
flickr
googlevideo
hulu
imdb
metacafe
qik
revision3
slideshare
twitpic
viddler
vimeo
wikipedia
wordpress
youtube
Added in latest Alpah1.2 for joomla 1.5.x is myspace vids and screenr and a few bug fixes
So as an example if you paste the url http://www.youtube.com/watch?v-nTDNLUzjkpg on a line with text its not convert.
However, paste it on its own line:- and it is.
At the moment I still need to tweek the regex as its not working in Joomla as it does in here, but like I said, that might be due to issues with wysiwyg editors.
I’ll keep you posted and add a link to the download with the project is accepted by joomla
To make this plugin w3c-conform, please change line 87 in oembed.php to
$filename=”params.php?w=”.$maxWidth.”&m=”.$mode.”&h=”.$maxHeight.”";
(and also replace ‘&’ with ‘&’ in all other relevant spots in this plugin, i.e. jquery.oembed.js,…)
Thanks for this plugin!
This form edited my comment.
The second ‘&’ was supposed to be an ‘& amp;’ without the space, of course.
Hi Knauer,
I’ll certainly look in to that. Glad you found the plugin useful
Plugin updated for joomla 1.5.x see if that fixes your issues.
Also added support for myspace vids & screenr