How do I get BB code for my forum?

[litfoo]

Hi all and Merry Christmas!

I have been using the BB embed code for youtube and find it very useful to easily add embedded youtube videos to my posts

Can someone easily make me some BB code for me to easily embed videos from my site into vbulletin

example embed code would be:


Hope someone can help

Many thanks

litfoo

[Jake Bunce]

It will be very similar to the youtube code. Just replace the location of the movie with a param. For example:

<embed src="[color=red]{param}[/color]" FlashVars="config=http://www.consolegoals.com/flvplayer.php?viewkey=80faf6fb5e6087eb1b2d&vimg=ht tp://www.consolegoals.com/thumb/6.jpg" quality="high" bgcolor="#000000" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="330" loop="false" align="middle" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" scale="exactfit" > </embed>

Then pass in the movie location in your posts. For example, if the tag is "movie":

[movie]http://www.consolegoals.com/flvplayer.swf[/movie]

[litfoo]

Jake

many thanks for the speedy response.

this is the code that i am using for the youtube bbcode

<object width="350" height="288"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/{param}"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/{param}" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="350" height="288"></embed></object>

and the tag i cam using is youtube

so people just have to add the movie id from youtube in between the youtube tags.

how should my BB code look?

thanks in advance

litfoo

[litfoo]

I have used this

<object width="350" height="288"><param name="movie" value="http://www.consolegoals.com/flvplayer.swf{param}"></param<embed src="http://www.consolegoals.com/flvplayer.swf" FlashVars="config=http://www.consolegoals.com/flvplayer.php?viewkey={param}" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="350" height="288"></embed></object>

with the example [goals]d7fbdea1afc51c7c6ad2[/goals]

when i click on save i can see my embedded video in my BB Code Manager

however, if i use [goals]d7fbdea1afc51c7c6ad2[/goals] in a thread/post the embedded video is not shown

any ideas?

thanks

litfoo

[feldon23]

I am not an expert at object vs. embed tags, but I am going to go back to your original post and suggest this:

<embed src="http://www.consolegoals.com/flvplayer.swf" FlashVars="config=http://www.consolegoals.com/flvplayer.php?viewkey={param}" quality="high" bgcolor="#000000" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="330" loop="false" align="middle" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" scale="exactfit" > </embed>

[litfoo]

feldon,

many thanks for that. I have tried your suggestion and it works a charm - am very happy!

Merry Christmas to you and Jake

litfoo

[litfoo]

Hi all,

I am currently using this code in my BB code settings and it is working like a charm

<embed src="http://www.consolegoals.com/flvplayer.swf" FlashVars="config=http://www.consolegoals.com/flvplayer.php?viewkey={param}" quality="high" bgcolor="#000000" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="330" loop="false" align="middle" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" scale="exactfit" > </embed>


however, my embedded source on my site seems to have changed to include a second parameter: see below in red

<embed src="http://www.consolegoals.com/flvplayer.swf" FlashVars="config=http://www.consolegoals.com/flvplayer.php?viewkey=4a10e0db5e4b97fc2af3&vimg=http://www.consolegoals.com/thumb/13.jpg" quality="high" bgcolor="#000000" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="330" loop="false" align="middle" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" scale="exactfit" > </embed>


how would i handle all this in my bb code shown at the top now? is it a second parameter? can i handle 2 parameters?

any help greatly appreciated

thanks

litfoo

[Jake Bunce]

You can add a second parameter by using {option}. Enable the {option} setting when editing the BB code. You can pass in a value in your post by doing this:

[tag=[color=red]option value here[/color]][color=blue]param value here[/color][/tag]

[litfoo]

Thanks for the reply

Not too sure if I follow though. Forgive my ignorance

I have changed the Use {option} to yes

but do not really know how to progress

at the moment i enter [cgoal]80faf6fb5e6087eb1b2d[/cgoal] to take care of the first param

would you mind going into a little more detail explaining how i handle the second parameter

thanks in advance

litfoo

[feldon23]

Jake's post was pretty clear:
[tag=option value here]param value here[/tag]


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