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How to embed a YouTube video into an article in Joomla! 1.5 PDF Print E-mail
Written by Cory   
Wednesday, 23 July 2008

There are actually several ways to go about embedding a YouTube video into an article in Joomla! 1.5, but I have built a plugin that makes it dead simple. You can download the plugin here.

Here's how it works:

  • Step 1: Download the plugin.
  • Step 2: Install it.
  • Step 3: Enable (publish) it.
  • Step 4: Go to YouTube.com and find a video that you want to embed.
  • Step 5: Copy the URL for that video from your browser bar.
  • Step 6: Paste the URL into your content item.
  • Repeat steps 4-6 for as many videos as you wish to embed.

That's all there is to it. Really. It's that simple. The plugin handles all the embedding code for you. I am releasing the plugin under the GNU/GPL, so feel free to use it on as many sites as you wish.

Special thanks to Simon Tiplady for helping me with the regular expressions in this plugin.

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Theresa: ...
Cory: I downloaded and installed the plug-in, then created the article and pasted in the You Tube URL -- no problem. But now the video is repeating itself. Why?

Here's a link:

http://www.co.douglas.ne.us/county/cards/youtube

The only thing I've pasted into the article is the link. I then created a menu item as well.
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Cory: ... http://www.howtojoomla.net
It looks like you generated an "a rel="nofollow" href=" link to the video. The plugin took the URL within that link twice and embedded the video twice. You just need to paste the URL. You do not need to make a link to the video.

Make sure your WYSIWYG editor is not automatically turning the URL into a link.
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Luong Nam: ...
where is "Paste the URL into your content item"? I dont see Content Item, please help me, i am newbie.
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Chris Pfeiffer: ...
youre a champ. cheers mate. love your work, been a huge help smilies/wink.gif
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ash: ... http://www.ash.uk.net
hi would you know how i could change the size?
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jimmyoctane: ... http://www.nbjuniortackle.com
Im with ash......is there a way to reduce the video size..(width/length)

thanks
Jimmy
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jimmyoctane: ... http://www.nbjuniortackle.com
nevermind
just use



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Olivier Morin: ... http://www.cognitionandculture.org
Dear Cory

I love this site, it is by far the most useful I have ever found on such topics.
But I am unable to make the Youtube plugin work. I retraced all the steps but it still does not work.

Thank you anyway for everything that you do!

olivier
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Braian: ...
Dear Cory,
Thank you for your work, your plugin is exellent.
I have installed, is really a simple way that for me is exactly what I need.
The only "problem" is that the plugin works only with URL like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1unzN2zsA4k
but as you surely know youtube is now multilingual and multicountry. So I find out that your plugin doesn't work with URL like:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1unzN2zsA4k
or
http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=1unzN2zsA4k

Do u have any idea for fix it? I'm not a php programmer.. so for me is not so easy edit your plugin.
Thank you
Bye
Braian
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