This tutorial will show you how to add youtube video to your phpbb3 + forums. Your users will be able to use the url for any video within a bbcode tag.

Example:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0to1HDxtkM4[/youtube]

File to edit
includes/bbcode.php

Steps :
1. Open includes/bbcode.php and find the following on about line 121

// Remove the uid from tags that have not been transformed into HTML $message = str_replace(':' . $this->bbcode_uid, '', $message);

Directly under that add the following codes:

//ADDED BY WESTERNSTUDIOS.NET - YOUTUBE MOD $message = str_replace('watch?v=', 'v/', $message);

Save and upload.

Next go to your phpbb admin and click on the Posting tab then click on the BBCodes link. Click the Add a new BBCode button Paste the following in the first box

[youtube]{URL}[/youtube]

Then paste the following in the second box

<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="{URL}"></param><embed src="{URL}" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>

Paste the following in the next field

Add youtube video to the post.

Then check the box for Display on posting page

Click Submit. You should now see the youtube bbcode when posting/editing . Enter the url to any youtube video and it should display in your post.

 

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