Adding a YouTube tag to phpBB3

Bayard Randal was using the open source online forum software application phpBB3, and decided to create a hack to allow users to easily embed YouTube videos in their forum posts.

Click the link to see his walkthrough.Using phpBB3 Release Candidate 4 - released 28 July 2007.

1. Log in to the Administrative Control Panel (ACP), and click the Posting tab.

2. Click the Add a new BBCode button in the bottom right hand corner.

3. Enter the following under BBCode Usage:

[youtube] {TEXT}[/youtube]

4. Enter the following under HTML replacement:

5. (Optional) Enter the following under Help line: Use the ID of the youtube video.

6. Ensure that Display on posting page is checked.

7. Click Submit

You should now have a YouTube button available from your posting interface.

To use it, simply enter the ID of the YouYube video between the BBCode.

Example:

If your youtube URIL is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=areyUfCNFxY

your BBCode in your post would appear:

[youtube] areyUfCNFxY[/youtube]

Thanks for the tip, Bayard!

Comments

Bayard Guest

Aug 22, 2007, 11:50am
Sure thing! :D

phpBB3 is really flexible - you can just about embed anything in a post now with custom bbcode, even iframes!

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fred Guest

Dec 28, 2007, 4:27am
i had install the code.
When i make a new topic the "you tube" botton shows up but when i make Submit it shows the topic like this;
embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/mqkLvkmoxsI" wmode="transparent" style="width:400px; height:326px;" id="VideoPlayback" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" flashvars="">

Instead of the movie, any tip ?

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- Dave Thornton Guest
  
  Jan 7, 2011, 2:59am
  Hi Fred,
  If your still having problems look at this video
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1G7TJD6Xu0
  
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kriDje Guest

Feb 19, 2008, 3:47am
Thank you! Nice tutorial!

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Kris Wilkes Guest

Mar 3, 2008, 9:04am
Excellent - works a treat.

Thanks for taking the time to make this tutorial.

Kris

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afnfan Guest

Apr 13, 2008, 4:39pm
Hello,

As I took a look at phpbb forum but was not still able to set up my youtube video posting in phpbb3.

As I googled and came here, I finally made it.
Thanks a bunch!

J.O.

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Doug Moir Guest

May 4, 2008, 6:21pm
Excellent ....works a treat !

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Dileesha Guest

May 10, 2008, 6:27pm
Yeah ... finally its working ..... Thank you very much bro ... thank you .... Great work .. keep going ...

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Thierry Guest

Jun 13, 2008, 7:49am
Code update for YouTube advanced player (thanks for this great page)

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Herminia Guest

Jul 11, 2008, 8:48pm
Can you help me to create a bbcode for introducing a slide show on phpBB3, please? I'm portuguese and I dont find this information in anywhere.

Thanks

Herminia

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berto Guest

Aug 20, 2008, 2:19pm
This works great for the stqandard youtube but not the custom with 746 x 423 custom player in a phpbb 3, can anyone help ith that. Thanks berto

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Jahangir Agha Guest

Aug 20, 2008, 8:10pm
Awesome, I was just looking for this. I even asked about this thing on phpbb community but they told me a very long procedure which I couldn't follow because it was a bit complicated.

But this one is like a magic :)

Thank you so much.

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Ramon Guest

Aug 21, 2008, 12:42am
I followed instructions but it just comes up as a white box - using phpbb3 3.0.2

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jops Guest

Aug 26, 2008, 11:14am
so cool

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpLAHN5pLvI

click pls

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Robbie Guest

Sep 19, 2008, 10:26pm
Is there a way to see embedded video for those posts where people already posted the entire url of youtube video?
Thanks

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Theresa Lane Guest

Mar 24, 2009, 6:00am
This worked great! Thank you so much!

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Nate Guest

May 13, 2009, 5:01pm
Fantastic info! Just taken over duties on a forum and knew nothing about php. This was easy to follow

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Dale Guest

Dec 16, 2009, 6:30am
If it is not working, go to the General tab and Purge your cash. It works a treat after that.

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eagenurge Guest

Jan 30, 2010, 11:40am
Windows Movie Maker doesn't let me put videos from my digi cam because it's in the wrong format so what converter can I use?
I want one that's pretty decent quality, doesn't cost anything, doesn't stick the logo on my videos and it converts all of the video, not just half of it.
I used to have prism something but then my trial run ran out so yeah, I can't use that >.<
And zamzar has a limit of 100MB :l

Help please?

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DW Guest

Feb 23, 2010, 4:17am
Thank you for this walk through. Very easy to follow.

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mehenninger Guest

Mar 31, 2010, 8:38am
Thank you, wonderful for beginners!

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ken Guest

Sep 22, 2010, 11:03am
i cannot get this to work and cannot find a "purge cache" anywhere in the acp, let alone the general tab.

it simply puts [youtube]theyoutubecode[/youtube]

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- Dave Thornton Guest
  
  Jan 7, 2011, 3:22am
  If your still having problems look at this video
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1G7TJD6Xu0
  
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Bleathext Guest

Oct 23, 2010, 3:38am
Has anyone here tested it?
Can anybody teach me about it?
I would seriously like to use it

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Bleathext Guest

Oct 29, 2010, 11:59pm
Can anyone enlighten me?

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mary Guest

Jan 4, 2011, 8:59pm
I am thinking of puting youtobe to my ipad.

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Scotty Guest

Sep 5, 2012, 9:23am
Hey there, just wondering, I would like to allow our users the ability to just wrap the entire youtube URL, is this possible? Some people simply find it too hard to copy/extract the ID.

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