s9e Media BBCodes pack 20231102

[DeviateDefiant]

I knocked up a quick fix for our site, but the issue I have with converting them to "customised" standard links (ie. displaying as a block with the eBay logo) is that I can't select the original eBay country domain.

 

[JoshyPHP]

If you publish your changes I'll see what I can do.

 

[Rho Delta]

Do you know why youtube no longer displays the title of the video? My users are very frustrated with this. No one wants to click a video that they can't see the title to...

 

[DeviateDefiant]

If you publish your changes I'll see what I can do.

I'll be adding our eBay affiliate ID to the link in the future.

<div class="media-ebay"><img src="(...)/icon_ebay.png" srcset="(...)" alt="eBay Logo"> <a href="http://ebay.co.uk/itm/{$id}" title="View on eBay" target="_blank">Item Shared</a></div>

Do you know why youtube no longer displays the title of the video? My users are very frustrated with this. No one wants to click a video that they can't see the title to...

YouTube changes which are out of the developers control AFAIK.

 

[JoshyPHP]

Do you know why youtube no longer displays the title of the video? My users are very frustrated with this. No one wants to click a video that they can't see the title to...

As DeviateDefiant mentioned, it's just YouTube trying out stuff. In this case, they've changed some UI options. I will almost certainly update the pack tomorrow to make it look more like it used to. The new "bare" version loads faster though.

@DeviateDefiant If you're handling eBay with this add-on, you can create a custom PHP template for it. You need to create a file named library/s9e/Custom.php with this content then reinstall the add-on.

<?php

class s9e_Custom
{
    public static function ebay($html, $vars)
    {
        $tlds = [
            'de_AT' => 'at',
            'en_GB' => 'co.uk',
            'de_DE' => 'de',
            'fr_FR' => 'fr',
            'it_IT' => 'it'
        ];

        $tld = (isset($vars['lang'], $tlds[$vars['lang']])) ? $tlds[$vars['lang']] : 'com';
 
        $html = '<div class="media-ebay"><img src="(...)/icon_ebay.png" srcset="(...)" alt="eBay Logo"> <a href="http://ebay.' . $tld . '/itm/' . urlencode($vars['id']) . '" title="View on eBay" target="_blank">Item Shared</a></div>';

        return $html;
    }
}

 

[Rho Delta]

My ebay mediasite just started producing a blank white square. It was working fine the other day...

 

[JoshyPHP]

JoshyPHP updated s9e Media BBCodes pack with a new update entry:

Updated eBay and YouTube

YouTube has changed their control options. This restores the display of the player's controls by default.

eBay seems to have silently killed their line of widgets, with no replacement. This update provides a link to the item in place of the now-defunct eBay To Go widget.

Read the rest of this update entry...

 

[The Grand Potentate]

@JoshyPHP When I embed an eBay link now it just shows up like a linked webpage, except it says "ebay item #-------". Is that how its supposed to look?

 

[JoshyPHP]

Yes. For the time being there's no alternative. eBay killed their widgets.

 

[The Grand Potentate]

Yes. For the time being there's no alternative. eBay killed their widgets.

I figured, but I wanted to make sure I wasn't supposed to be seeing some other iframe-y thing you cocked up.

Thanks for the quick fix, as always.

 

[tommydamic68]

Wasn't Facebook full screen at one time or is it my imagination. here is a screen shot of what a facebook vid looks like on my site.

 

[Chromaniac]

Do I need to clean up Custom.php after updating to the latest version because of YouTube related changes?

 

[JoshyPHP]

Wasn't Facebook full screen at one time or is it my imagination.

The width is fixed at 560px , the height depends on the content. If there's a video, it can play in full screen but I don't think it would start in full screen.

Do I need to clean up Custom.php after updating to the latest version because of YouTube related changes?

It may need to be updated because I removed the "controls" option from the iframe URL. Edit: if you were using this custom template I've just updated the post with a working version.

 

[Rho Delta]

Yes. For the time being there's no alternative. eBay killed their widgets.

Well that sucks. Will you monitor this in case they bring it back?

 

[JoshyPHP]

I intend to periodically check (manually) for their JavaScript widgets for a little while, but I have no hope for the eBay To Go flash widget because they removed the domain name from their own DNS.

 

[Rho Delta]

I intend to periodically check (manually) for their JavaScript widgets for a little while, but I have no hope for the eBay To Go flash widget because they removed the domain name from their own DNS.

Bummer.

 

[Mendo]

That would have made it easier to identify GIFV by their URLs, yes.

In my case, though, the issue of complexity is entirely mine. When I created the Imgur media site, I only intended to support albums and therefore the code [ΜEDIA=imgur]abc123[/ΜEDIA] refers to the album abc123. If I'm going to support other media I'll have to add a qualifier, e.g. [ΜEDIA=imgur]id=abc123;type=album[/ΜEDIA] or [ΜEDIA=imgur]id=abc123;type=gifv[/ΜEDIA] and if I do I'll have to decide what the default type should be. If it's not "album" it will mean that current users will have to use the Post Content Replacer to update their old embeds. It's not difficult from a technical standpoint but I want to get it right and not change my mind later because I don't want to ask users to update their old embeds multiple times, if any.

I"m not sure how to get this working, when I get either page link or direct link to the 'image' it can't do it. When I copy the direct url it says .mp4 at the end, not sure if that's why it's not working.

 

[JoshyPHP]

I"m not sure how to get this working, when I get either page link or direct link to the 'image' it can't do it. When I copy the direct url it says .mp4 at the end, not sure if that's why it's not working.

That's exactly why. Imgur's blog post about GIFV only mentionned the .gifv extension. Please post an example of a GIFV image with a different extension and I'll look into it asap.

When I go to a URL that ends with ".mp4" it redirects me to the same URL ending with ".gifv". Do you know where those ".mp4" URLs come from?

 

[JoshyPHP]

JoshyPHP updated s9e Media BBCodes pack with a new update entry:

Updated Imgur GIFV

Added support for URLs that end in .mp4

Read the rest of this update entry...

 

[JABRONI]

I can't seem to get IGN videos to embed. Can you check to see if it works on your site?

I'm trying to get this video to embed,

http://www.ign.com/videos/2014/10/17/the-making-of-wwe-2k15-part-2-the-game-has-changed