Post your YouTube playlists

by **[DRuG]NikT** on Sun Apr 12, 2009 4:19 pm

OK.. this is an idea that started out originally as one for a new area of the forums, and it may still evolve into that.

I thought it would be good to add "Music" or "Video" as an area up near "Arcade" etc., and was looking for some sort of mod for phpBB that would allow users to submit their playlist url's from youtube. Unfortunately, short of writing it myself, there's nothing similar out there. This doesn't mean that in future, I won't be incorporating some of what I'm about to go through into a static page that I later link into the main site with all the appropriate themes etc... big job, but would give us a 'community radio' of sorts, so.. small steps...

In order to generate the player I'm about to include below, go to http://www.youtube.com/custom_player, and make one to point at your youtube login, then extract the long url just after "embed src" in the code it generates... then include in a forums post using:

Code: Select all: [flash=746,413]http://www.youtube.com/cp/vjVQa1PpcFNTfJpY6gtVacbkJ1iingiakOpzFy5NW0I=[/flash]

You can't size it down - it seems to behave weirdly in response to being told a specific dimension - I don't mind these running off the side for now - they're still usable & when I incorporate them into an area on the site, of course, they wont have this layout issue.