Creating a video field by triggering a Joomla video plugin

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    George Papadakis
  • Last modified
    28 October 2013
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    Component Plugins
  • Since Version
    1.5.6
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  1. Download/install a joomla CONTENT plugin (for embedding videos) from extensions.joomla.org
    e.g. All-videos Plugin (the example below will describe how to add a field to embeed a youtube video when having installed All-videos Plugin)
  2. Create a FLEXIcontent text field
  3. (and in its configuration do)
    1. Put as prefix / suffix text for
      e.g. youtube:
      Prefix: {youtube}
      Suffix: {/youtube}
      e.g. flv file:
      Prefix: {flv}
      Suffix: {/flv}
      etc ...
    2. Enable plugin trigerring
    3. Select All-Videos joomla CONTENT plugin from the plugin lis
    4. Enable "Remove Space" parameter
  4. Add the field to the a template position of item layout
  5. Edit your items to add e.g. the Youtube  video ID or for flv the filename
  6. View your items in frontend

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