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Aaron Miller
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Posted: 2nd Sep 2012 12:02
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Hello. I've seen this quite a bit here. Someone says "I don't know how to embed YouTube videos so here's some raw text or a link to the video." Since it's not really documented anywhere in plane sight (and people don't care to look), here's my attempt at making that knowledge a little bit easier to find.

Given a YouTube link, like "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okqEVeNqBhc" you would take the value set after the v key (the boldface text above) and put that between "youtube" tags.

So, this bbcode
[[/i]youtube]okqEVeNqBhc[[i]/youtube]
will output the following:


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Posted: 2nd Sep 2012 12:55
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And if you ever have a link like this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf8cM7f6P2I&feature=my_liked_videos&list=LL8BQXHNFTAVHglcsd35iiSw

You'll want to copy only the section between the equals sign and the &:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf8cM7f6P2I&feature=my_liked_videos&list=LL8BQXHNFTAVHglcsd35iiSw

So you get this:

[[/i]youtube]Sf8cM7f6P2I[[i]/youtube]



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Posted: 2nd Sep 2012 12:56
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Dammit! I knew I was doing it correctly but I didn't know what part of the link to put in, I always put in the whole watch?v= part aswell.

Thanks for this

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Posted: 2nd Sep 2012 15:40
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This should probably get stickied, it's a common thing that a lot of people seem to have issues with.
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Posted: 3rd Sep 2012 06:43
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IMO this should be stickied, but I might be a bit biased, lol!

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Posted: 3rd Sep 2012 07:09 Edited at: 3rd Sep 2012 07:10
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Quote: "IMO this should be stickied, but I might be a bit biased, lol!"


It is stickied...here. Right under the section question Q: How do I place a YouTube video in my post?.


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Posted: 3rd Sep 2012 07:56
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People don't read stickies... At least I don't, it took me a week to figure out where Carnage by Fallout went to.

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Posted: 3rd Sep 2012 08:09
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How about a new button next to the code button in the message window
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Aaron Miller
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Posted: 3rd Sep 2012 08:31
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Quote: "It is stickied...here."

Okay, that's not the best place for this recurring theme considering it's in FPSC chat and not a more general board, like this one. Plus it's buried in there.

Quote: "People don't read stickies..."

I tend to read them once then never look again.

Quote: "How about a new button next to the code button in the message window"

That'd be nice. I don't know what the status is on this website's maintenance... Does anyone know who (if anyone) is currently maintaining the forum code?

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Posted: 3rd Sep 2012 09:39
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Quote: "Does anyone know who (if anyone) is currently maintaining the forum code?"


Mostly Paul, and rarely myself. I did the YouTube embed code and the syntax highlighting code, but not much after that. I should work on it some more


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Posted: 3rd Sep 2012 11:25
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While we're discussing potential new features, It'd be nice to also be able to embed SoundCloud.

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Posted: 3rd Sep 2012 22:07
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Quote: "While we're discussing potential new features, It'd be nice to also be able to embed SoundCloud."


Amen to that. I'll try to see what I can do


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Posted: 3rd Sep 2012 22:21
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On the topic of features... Any chance of tables?

[table][tr][td]Row 1 - Clm 1[/td][td]Row 1 - Clm 2[/td][/tr]
[tr][td=2]Row 2 - Columns 1 and 2[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Row 3 - Column 1[/td][td]Row 3 - Column 2[/td][/tr][/table]

I can see that being useful for organizing WIP and PA posts a bit more.

Also, [hr] ?

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Jeku, how does the forum ensure that tags are closed? Say I left a quote open, it doesn't screw up the entire thread, how? xD


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Posted: 4th Sep 2012 03:07
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Maybe he just ends each post with </Quote> </Code> etc, etc...
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Would that work? For example, what if the tag hadn't been opened? A bunch of closing tags without openers can't be good, or what if there's two unclosed quotes?


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Posted: 4th Sep 2012 03:49
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Then Jeku personally slaps the guy who did it.
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Posted: 4th Sep 2012 04:23
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HTML uses angle brackets instead of square brackets, so when the system replaces say [[/i]b] ... [[/i]/b] with <b> ... </b> it only does the replacement if there is a matching closing tag. Unclosed tags remain as [[/i]b] which doesn't cause a problem.

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Posted: 4th Sep 2012 05:16
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Oh? My signature shouldn't be bold. [b]

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So does the forum code just run through the post looking for the closing tag?


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Posted: 4th Sep 2012 05:22
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The forum code would have to run through the post to figure out how to parse it anyway, but no. If you look at the source of the page (view page source), you'll see it's handled by divs. Divs appear to get their own style, which overrides existing tags.

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Posted: 4th Sep 2012 07:27
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If I remember correct the code does regular expression matching across the posts for the opening and closing tag, and grabs the match and replaces it with the appropriate style. It should be easy to incorporate Sound Cloud!


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Posted: 4th Sep 2012 11:10
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@ Aaron

That's a nice trick you used to bypass the tags. [b[/i]]Huh, why isn't this bold?[/b[i]]

And why is my signature in a quote?

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Posted: 4th Sep 2012 11:25
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Quote: "[[/i]b]Huh, why isn't this bold?[[i]/b]"

Because you did this:
[[[/i]i][[i]/i]b]Huh, why isn't this bold?[[[/i]i][[i]/i]/b]

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Posted: 5th Sep 2012 13:50 Edited at: 5th Sep 2012 13:51
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And you did that because you did this:
[[[i[/i]][/i[i]]i][[i[/i]][/i[i]]/i]b]Huh, why isn't this bold?[[[i[/i]][/i[i]]i][[i[/i]][/i[i]]/i]/b]



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