Possibility of a Youtube Tag?

[Skilzat85X]

This was something I thought of that may be beneficial to save a couple clicks here and there or just to be like "oh that's pretty neat."

Now first of I'll I'm not sure if this vbulletin supports custom tags or not. I know it does on Bboy.org but eh who knows maybe it's different. So if it doesn't work oh well.

Anyways, I spose the way it would work would be something like this:

The person takes that unique little id or whatever thingy on their youtube url.
For example, the lpjuChQfSww out of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpjuChQfSww.

They then paste it within the youtube tags such as:

	

		

			+
			YouTube Video
		
	


	

		

			
		
	

And voila then the video is embedded within the thingy.

In IPB you create tags by like creating the HTML and then inserting in the variable {content} into wherever you want to replace it. So for example if I was making this on IPB I'd take youtubes embed code and do this with it:

<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/{content}"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/{content}" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>

I'm not how vbulletin handles this but I'm sure it'd be similar.

And yea that's all. An example of it in use would be like here:
http://www.bboy.org/forums/youtube-g...ol-finals.html
Somehow on bboy.org they get it to make it automatically if you post any youtube link, eff that haha.


Just a little extra fluff for your consideration.

[Kyukodo Gaz]

good idea Skillz, I like it. I think you can also just alter permissions and allow embeddable objects..? I'm not sure about that, but I think you can...

[Kimimaro]

Sounds good to me. But wouldn't this have a play on bandwidth?

[Grenkutzu]

Originally Posted by Kimimaro

Sounds good to me. But wouldn't this have a play on bandwidth?

Yeah, for youtube.

[chicanerous]

Originally Posted by Kyukodo Gaz

good idea Skillz, I like it. I think you can also just alter permissions and allow embeddable objects..? I'm not sure about that, but I think you can...

The forum would be hacked within seconds if you allowed embeddable objects.

[brandonn]

Originally Posted by chicanerous

The forum would be hacked within seconds if you allowed embeddable objects.

you can limit who posts, and how often embedded objects are posted.

[Rahf]

That is also active on another forum I frequent and it is very useful. It is even more handy since you just have to type [yt]xxxxxxxxxxx[/yt].

[alpha7158]

Originally Posted by chicanerous

The forum would be hacked within seconds if you allowed embeddable objects.

not if you limited the source they could be embeded from

[Skilzat85X]

Exactly. A Youtube tag only puts in the HTML for youtube videos, it doesn't let you just embed whatever.

[chicanerous]

Originally Posted by brandonn

you can limit who posts, and how often embedded objects are posted.

Originally Posted by alpha7158

not if you limited the source they could be embeded from

Originally Posted by Skilzat99X

Exactly. A Youtube tag only puts in the HTML for youtube videos, it doesn't let you just embed whatever.

Obviously. Read what Kyukodo Gaz posted.

He said he thought you could "just alter permissions and allow embeddable objects." By definition, this means you would have to enable the HTML for them, which would open the forums to attack, as I stated.

Adding a YouTube or any other tag does not allow embeddable objects -- that's the whole purpose of the tag. As Skilzat99X kindly lets us know, the tag acts as a "wrapper" which is replaced by the proper HTML by the forum software. This also serves to limit the source of the objects.

Level up your reading comprehension, guys.

(And, if that's not what Kyukodo Gaz meant, then he needs to level up his writing because this is what his post is stating.)