Extension:YouTube (Iubito)

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YouTube Release status: unknown
Implementation	Tag
Description	<youtube> parser tag for displaying YouTube videos on a MediaWiki.
Author(s)	Sylvain Machefert (Iubitotalk)
License	No license specified
Download	see below It's for MediaWiki 1.16 and 1.17alpha, too
Example	[1] [2]
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YouTube extension displays videos from YouTube. Upload your videos to YouTube and then share them in your wiki!

View a demo in the sandbox of my wiki.

Changes to LocalSettings.php

Add this line at the end of LocalSettings.php:

require_once("$IP/extensions/YouTube.php");

Code

Copy the following code into extensions/YouTube.php :

<?php
# YouTube Videos
# 
# Tag:
#   <youtube>v</youtube>
# Ex:
#   from url http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZpeeRSk-0A
#   <youtube>WZpeeRSk-0A</youtube>
# 
# Enjoy!

$wgExtensionFunctions[] = 'wfYouTube';
$wgExtensionCredits['parserhook'][] = array(
        'name' => 'YouTube',
        'description' => 'Display YouTube video',
        'author' => 'Sylvain Machefert',
        'url' => 'http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:YouTube_(Iubito)'
);
 
function wfYouTube() {
        global $wgParser;
        $wgParser->setHook('youtube', 'renderYouTube');
}
 
# The callback function for converting the input text to HTML output
function renderYouTube($input) {
        //$input = "WZpeeRSk-0A"
 
        $width = 425;
        $height = 350;
 
        //Validate the video ID
        if (preg_match('%[^A-Za-z0-9_!\#\\-]%',$input)) {
                return 'YouTube : bad video ID !';
        }
 
        $url = 'http://www.youtube.com/v/' . $input;
        $output =
                Xml::openElement( 'object',
                        array(
                                'width' => $width,
                                'height' => $height ) ) .
                Xml::openElement( 'param',
                        array(
                                'name' => 'movie',
                                'value' => $url ) ) .
                '</param>' .
                Xml::openElement( 'embed',
                        array(
                                'src' => $url,
                                'type' => 'application/x-shockwave-flash',
                                'wmode' => 'transparent',
                                'width' => $width,
                                'height' => $height ) ) .
                '</embed>' .
                '</object>';
 
        return $output;
}

Usage

To add the link in the wiki: <youtube>FileNameOfYouTubeVideo</youtube> The file name is video ID code that's at the end of the URL of the video link. That's all. :-)

See also

• YouTube Widget on MediaWikiWidgets.org site, it uses Widgets extension.