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Forum code help

Post by aTm » Fri Apr 15, 2011 4:21 pm

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Re: Forum code help

Post by aTm » Fri Apr 15, 2011 4:24 pm

Lesson #1 - YouTube Video

Use the following forum code.

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[Youtube][/Youtube]
All you have to do to post a Youtube video on the board is grab the video's ID. The ID is the string of letters unique to each viedo that is listed in its URL.

For example, if you want to link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0, then you simply grab the "oHg5SJYRHA0" part of the URL and place it in the code as follows:

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[Youtube]oHg5SJYRHA0[/Youtube]
and you get....

[youtube]oHg5SJYRHA0[/youtube]
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Re: Forum code help

Post by aTm » Fri Apr 15, 2011 4:34 pm

Lesson #2 - Images

There are curently two forum codes for posting images. They are:

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[img][/img] AND [Img2][/Img2]
"img" posts an image at its normal size. Use this tag for posting normal size picture on the board. If a picture is too large, it will get cut off at the right hand side by the edge of the web page, this is when you use the "Img2" tag. "Img2" contrains the image to the width of our page so that it doenst get cut off, If you use "Img2" with a smaller image, it will expand it to fit the page.

Examples for a smaller/normal sized image.

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[img]http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~pritchey/images/block_aTm.jpg[/img]
Image

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[img2]http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~pritchey/images/block_aTm.jpg[/img2]
[img2]http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~pritchey/ima ... ck_aTm.jpg[/img2]

Examples for a very large image.

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[img]http://www.fisd.us/ecc/TEXAS_A_M_WALLMARX_LOGO.jpg[/img]
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[img2]http://www.fisd.us/ecc/TEXAS_A_M_WALLMARX_LOGO.jpg[/img2]
[img2]http://www.fisd.us/ecc/TEXAS_A_M_WALLMARX_LOGO.jpg[/img2]
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Re: Forum code help

Post by aTm » Fri Apr 15, 2011 4:44 pm

Lesson #3 - Other Flash video (and objects)

Use the following forum code.

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[Flash=][/Flash]
Flash is a little more complicated than youtube. You have to look at the video's embed code and try and piece it together along with the video players height and width.

Lets say I go to CNN and want to link a video that gives me the following embed code.

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<object width="416" height="374" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" id="ep"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><param name="movie" value="http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&videoId=us/2011/04/15/vo.ms.tornado.jackson.cnn" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#000000" /><embed src="http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&videoId=us/2011/04/15/vo.ms.tornado.jackson.cnn" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" bgcolor="#000000" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="416" wmode="transparent" height="374"></embed></object>
The important parts i see are the width, height and the source portion of the code. Using that I create the following bbcode.

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[flash=416,374]http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&videoId=us/2011/04/15/vo.ms.tornado.jackson.cnn[/flash]
Note that I put the width then height in the first flash code, then grabbed the source of the file i want to play and put that between the tags. You end up with this:




Please let me know if it gives you an error when trying to post flash. there is an option to allow or disallow certain classes of user from posting using that tag, so I may need to make adjustments if it doesnt work.
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Re: Forum code help

Post by Jungle Rat » Fri Apr 15, 2011 7:17 pm

Thanks. I get the first two now I think. The third one made me feel nauseous.

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Re: Forum code help

Post by billy bob bocephus » Sun Apr 17, 2011 7:00 pm

thanks aTm, youse ok for a kay-det

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Re: Forum code help

Post by It's me Karen » Mon Apr 18, 2011 4:26 pm

[Youtube]Cqh54rSzheg&feature=related[/Youtube]

Practice. Hope this works.

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Re: Forum code help

Post by It's me Karen » Mon Apr 18, 2011 4:29 pm

[Youtube]Cqh54rSzheg&feature[/Youtube]

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Re: Forum code help

Post by It's me Karen » Mon Apr 18, 2011 4:30 pm

Damn

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Re: Forum code help

Post by It's me Karen » Mon Apr 18, 2011 4:32 pm

Image

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Re: Forum code help

Post by AugustWest » Mon Apr 25, 2011 5:25 pm

karen, leave out the "&feature" in your youtube code. just use the unique number.
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Re: Forum code help

Post by It's me Karen » Mon Apr 25, 2011 7:53 pm

[youtube]Cqh54rSzheg[/youtube]

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Re: Forum code help

Post by It's me Karen » Mon Apr 25, 2011 7:55 pm

Yay! Thanks Auggie! It's been so long I forgot what video I was posting. It was a hit when I started. heh

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Re: Forum code help

Post by AugustWest » Mon Apr 25, 2011 8:25 pm

heh.
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Re: Forum code help

Post by 10ac » Mon Apr 25, 2011 8:31 pm

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Re: Forum code help

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Re: Forum code help

Post by It's me Karen » Sat Apr 30, 2011 12:39 pm

A shout out goes to aTm for finding this place and setting it up. I think it's going to be a hit!

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Re: Forum code help

Post by Jungle Rat » Sat Apr 30, 2011 1:25 pm

Karen is drunk

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Re: Forum code help

Post by aTm » Sat Apr 30, 2011 1:29 pm

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Re: Forum code help

Post by Stormaktstiden » Sun May 01, 2011 7:49 am

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