Integrate YouTube with your phpBB Forum

With Youtube gaining popularity, more

and more phpBB boards want to allow their members to post YouTube

videos in their posts. I am sure most of you reading this watch Youtube

videos and share them. Here we guide you on how to add YouTube videos

to your phpBB forums.While phpBB has some of the most popular BBCodes

included by default, you can also add your own . This article will

explain how to add your own custom BBCodes. PhpBB3 has a powerful new

feature that lets you add your own BBCodes directly from an easy to use

admin panel interface --no MODS or code changes needed.

To do this, login to Administrative

Control Panel (ACP) and click on the 'Posting' tab at the top. Click on

the 'Add a New BBCode' button in the bottom right of the page. This

will open up three text input areas, BBCode usage, HTML replacement,

and Help line text box -where you can enter a tip on how to use your

new BBCode.

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Enter the following in the 'BBCode usage' box:

http://www.YouTube.com/watch?v={TEXT}

Enter the following in the 'HTML replacement' box:

bgcolor="#e8e8e8" border="0" bordercolor="#111111" cellpadding="5"

cellspacing="0">

src='/IMG/974/61974/integrate01march2k10.jpg'

width="500" border="0" height="409"> Login to ACP, click on 'Posting' and add the

code under the three head and you're done.

< font color="#FF0000"> height="350"> value="http://www.YouTube.com/v/{TEXT}"> name="wmode" value="transparent"> src="http://www.YouTube.com/v/{TEXT}

type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425"

height="350">

And finally enter the following in the

'Help line text' box:

Now, to use the new

BBcode tags you just created on posting page, you need to insert the

YouTube Video ID of the YouTube video you want to add in between the

tags. You will now be able to embed YouTube videos on your forum.