Over the past few days I've been tinkering with a new BBCode for the forums, and this is what I've come up with:



That's right!
From now on you can all embed youtube videos into topics.

All you have to do is copy and paste the URL of the video in between the tags and it should show up

I'm also working on another code which will allow you to post videos from any video hosting site, but it'll take me another while to sort it out completely, so you'll have to settle for just being able to post youtube videos for now.

As with everything these days, there are rules for using these tags:

• When posting multiple videos, place them in a spoiler.
• No videos allowed in sigs
• Obviously no inappropriate videos allowed

Good work Mary, it's just like LWD

WHAT A COINCIDENCE!!!!

Well, this news makes me want to...

Yes, but this code supports HD!

I meant you're turning it into LWD 2.0

Finally were not fucking cavemen anymore.

You bigot!

This is awesome. I feel the way that Louis does when he finds pills in Left 4 Dead...



(This post almost sounds like a scene from Family Guy.)

By the way, if you want the video to be in HD you just place "&fmt=18" after the bit you paste

... I think

All bow before the mighty mscupcakes. Queen of admins, embedder of videos.

You know that you can get code that takes in the entire URL? It'd save a lot of time having to cut certain parts out of it

That last part sums up my feelings quite nicely. I thank you kindly.

Yeah, unless you just jacked someone else's code to do this, You've already got a sort of "profile" system going, considering parsing text in php is cake, you could pretty easily have a function to A) identify what service it's from and B) use the proper data from the URL and the appropriate embed (HTML) tag for the site.

Adding more BB options like specific modes the site supports (i.e. HD) would be simple tags to add to the BB tag.

So, instead you'd only have to do something like:



and it would output:



Anyway, it's 22, not 18, for specifying you want HD in the URL.

Yeah I thought about that, but for people would have to paste the url of the actual video which is youtube.com/v/ instead of v=, and i thought some people might find that a bit annoying instead of just cutting out the last part.
Atleast I can't find a way around that.
I dont see how your placement would work there, when you've put in the tags is this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF3fED8EXl4
but the html has to be http://www.youtube.com/v/xF3fED8EXl4
Maybe I'm just not that good with custom BBCode tags yet @_@
this is what my code looks like this:

That's all I could come up with, atleast with my basic understanding of it
I tried changing it to this to allow people to use the full URL:

which doesn't work without the direct link to the video.
Can you PM me with how to set it up properly then/

Okay, I've fixed it all thanks to a little help from Bobo.


I dunno why I didn't think of that..
Maybe I shouldn't stay up so late in the future

You can all now just paste the URL from the video in between the tags.

Doing this has meant that all the old videos you've posted to be broken.. sorry bout that, but I'll fix most of them now

I do everything simply.


High School maths was a bit of an issue..