Hi there,

I’ve just whipped up a quick plugin that allows you to embed YouTube clips into your templates by just passing a url…

Simply create a custom field to hold a YouTube clip url eg: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiefzD2J1_U, and wrap the field output in the following code:

The code it produces is Valid xhtml sourced from here so Hat-Tip to that man.

Parameters are just width and height, allowing you to place your clips around your site in different sizes without having to tweak multiple embed codes.

You can download from Jam Digital

Enjoy.

Thanks ill check this out now

I get Parse error: parse error, unexpected ‘&’, expecting T_VARIABLE or ‘$’ in /www/pmh4395/public_html/admin/plugins/pi.youtubee.php on line 44 when installed.

try removing the ampersand on line 44

change:

to

I’m guessing you’re running php4?

I should just remove that for each loop anyway… I initially wanted to replace several YouTube urls at once but gave up quickly as it wasn’t a requirement.

Thanks I have it all working now, such a great plug-in for what I needed and just at the right time.

You’re welcome Glad you found it useful.

Yes I did thanks.

If you want to see it used its used on http://mondaymorninginsight.com/ on the left hand side and also click the link and its used again.

the code may be valid, but it doesn’t work in IE-you need the <embed> code as well.

Just want to say “thank you” for writing this.  Perfect timing for me too.

I can’t get Youtubee to work. Seems to be a problem with the custom field I’m using to place the YouTube link between the YouTubee tags… or maybe not.

My template code is set up like this

Its generating the right embed code on the front of the site, except for the actual video link itself. Im getting…

Notice the extra…

...at the end of the link. I don’t know where this is coming from. My custom field is set to text input, no formatting, so it can’t be that, can it?

Thanks for any suggestions!
Nik

Do you have “Automatically Create Links from URLs” turned off in the weblog (channel) preferences?  It should be turned off.

Aha!! i **knew** it would be something like that. Works now!

Thanks Amy!