you tube codes stopped working

[ozdecor]

hello We had you tube videos in pages, now we find that when we edit them the code vanishes
have tried the {literal} {/literal} around the code without success. What is the best way to embedd a youtude video in a page

IAn

[M@rtijn]

There is a Youtube Module: http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/project/fi ... ackage-865

Worked like a charm on one of my projects

[ozdecor]

looked at that but it does not show on the page editor
Call ? but when the help says
To call the module, simply use the following tag:
{cms_module module="youtubeplayer"} or {cms_module module="youtubeplayer" alias="alias_of_item"}? Tried them in the page code (both sides of the wysiwyg editor)

where do i actually use that code?

and why has the youtube iframe code stopped working? - i could do it as a global block butthat is a bit of a overkill (or is it the only way)?
Ian

[Jeff]

I turn off the wysiwyg editor (disable checkbox is halfway down on the options tab) for pages with embed code or js because TinyMCE will filter it when you save it.

[ozdecor]

Is there a better way as when you have other content in the page it will look poor if the page creater does not know code (which most don't) - is the alternative globalblocks?
Ian

[Dr.CSS]

Tiny eats code like that, best to put it in GCB then call that in page content edit box...

[scooper]

I have a simple user defined tag (UDT) I use. It's pretty basic but works for me.

Create a UDT called 'youTube' with the following code:

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// write out an embed tag for a youtube vid.

$ytCode=$params['code'];

if(isset($params['height'])){
	$height=$params['height'];
}else{
	$height=385;
}

if(isset($params['width'])){
	$width=$params['width'];
}else{
	$width=640;
}

if(isset($params['autoplay'])){
	$autoplay=$params['autoplay'];
}else{
	$autoplay=0;
}


$vidString='<div>';
$vidString.='<object width="'.$width.'" height="'. $height .'">';
$vidString.='<param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/' . $ytCode .'&hl=en_GB&fs=1&rel=0&autoplay=' . $autoplay . '"></param>';
$vidString.='<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><param name="wmode" value="opaque"></param>';
$vidString.='<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/' . $ytCode .'&hl=en_GB&fs=1&rel=0&autoplay=' . $autoplay .'" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="opaque" width="' . $width .'" height="' . $height .'"></embed></object>';
$vidString.='</div>';

echo $vidString;

And then in your page content you can then add a tag in the form:

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{youTube code="H4O8_InlyYs"}

where 'code' is the id of your video. You can also pass height, width and autoplay parameters.

Hope it helps.

s.