Add Google video/Daily Motions Video to phpbb forums

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Google video has become one of the more popular video hosting website. There is also another upcoming website http://www.dailymotions.com which also hosts great videos. This tutorial will show you how to add a bbcode which will be used to display both google videos and daily motions videos.

This tutorial also works with phpbb forums that is not integrated with phpnuke.

Example:
Google/DailyMotion video in phpbb forums

Files to edit:
includes/bbcode.php
themes/YOUR_THEME/forums/bbcode.tpl (note: If you use the default phpbb template then this file is located at modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/bbcode.tpl)
modules/Forums/posting.php
modules/Forums/language/lang_english/lang_main.php
themes/YOUR_THEME/forums/posting_body.tpl (note: If you use the default phpbb template then this file is located at modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/posting_body.tpl

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Steps :
1. It might seem like alot of editing but it's actually easy. First open includes/bbcode.php and find the following codes:

$bbcode_tpl['email'] = str_replace('{EMAIL}', '\\1', $bbcode_tpl['email']);

Directly under that line paste the following codes:

$bbcode_tpl['wsvideo'] = str_replace('{URL}', '\\1', $bbcode_tpl['wsvideo']); Done!

2. Next find the following codes. If you can't find all of the codes, try searching for a part of it. Maybe the first 10 letters.

// [email]user@domain.tld[/email] code.. $patterns[] = "#\[email\]([a-z0-9&\-_.]+?@[\w\-]+\.([\w\-\.]+\.)?[\w]+)\[/email\]#si"; $replacements[] = $bbcode_tpl['email'];

Directly under that code paste the following:

$patterns[] = "#\[wsvideo:$uid\](.*?)\[/wsvideo:$uid\]#si"; $replacements[] = $bbcode_tpl['wsvideo']; Done!

3. Next find the following codes. Again, if you can't find all of the codes try searching for a portion of it.

// [img]image_url_here[/img] code.. $text = preg_replace("#\[img\]((ht|f)tp://)([^ \?&=\"\n\r\t<]*?(\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png)))\[/img\]#sie", "'[img:$uid]' . getsize('\\1'.str_replace(' ', '%20', '\\3')) . '[/img:$uid]'", $text);

Directly under that paste the following codes.

$text = preg_replace("#\[wsvideo\](([a-z]+?)://([^, \n\r]+))\[/wsvideo\]#si", "[wsvideo:$uid]\\1[/wsvideo:$uid]", $text); Done!

4. Open themes/YOUR_THEME/forums/bbcode.tpl (note: If you use the default phpbb template then this file is located at modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/bbcode.tpl) and find the following:

<!-- BEGIN email --><a href="mailto:{EMAIL}">{EMAIL}</A><!-- END email -->

Directly under that paste the following codes. This code should be one line. It has been wrapped to fit inside this website theme.

<!-- BEGIN wsvideo --><embed src="{URL}" width="400" height="300" wmode="transparent" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed><!-- END wsvideo --> Done!

5. Open modules/Forums/posting.php and find the following:

'L_BBCODE_F_HELP' => $lang['bbcode_f_help'],

Directly under that paste the following codes.

'L_BBCODE_ZZ_HELP' => $lang['bbcode_zz_help'], Done!

6. Open modules/Forums/language/lang_english/lang_main.php and find the following:

$lang['bbcode_f_help'] = 'Font size: [size=x-small]small text[/size]';

Directly under that paste the following codes.

$lang['bbcode_zz_help'] = "Google/DailyMotion Video: [wsvideo]http://link_of_video[/wsvideo]"; Done!

7. We are almost done :) Open themes/YOUR_THEME/forums/posting_body.tpl (note: If you use the default phpbb template then this file is located at modules/Forums/templates/subSilver/posting_body.tpl and find the following:

f_help = "{L_BBCODE_F_HELP}";

Directly under that paste the following codes.

zz_help = "{L_BBCODE_ZZ_HELP}"; Done!

8. Find:

bbtags = new Array('[b]','[/b]',

In-line find '[/url]' and beside it add the following:

, '[wsvideo]','[/wsvideo]' Done!

9. Find the following (note: the code should be one line, it has been wrapped to fit this website theme):

<td width="54"><span class="genmed"> <input type="button" class="button" accesskey="w" name="addbbcode16" value="URL" style="text-decoration: underline; width: 40px" onClick="bbstyle(16)" onMouseOver="helpline('w')" /> </span></td>

Directly after that paste the following (note: the code should be one line, it has been wrapped to fit this website theme).
This part needs a little attention. You should add 2 to each value if already taken " addbbcode18, bbstyle(18) " . Notice in the above the code it has "16" so we added 2.

<td><span class="genmed"><input type="button" class="button" accesskey="zz" name="addbbcode20" value="Google It!" style="width: 50px" onClick="bbstyle(20)" onMouseOver="helpline('zz')" /></span></td> Done!

That's it! Enjoy and please Back Up as usual before making any major changes.
Now how-to-use. First visit video.google.com or dailymotions.com and get only the src url to the file eg. http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-4690396156416705374&hl=en . This src url is shown in the embed codes.

Next create a post in your forum and place the url in the wsvideo tag [wsvideo]http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-4690396156416705374&hl=en[/wsvideo]

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