Embeding youtube videos

[Astonlee]

I run a specialist engineering tooling site in which I want to embed technical demonstration video I added on youtube into the classifield listing on my site, can anyone tell me if this can be done, and if so how?

[Matt]

The simplest way would be to make sure that the EMBED tag is allowed in your Allowed HTML settings, then just paste the code that youtube gives directly into the Description field when placing a listing.

[geomodules]

I run a specialist engineering tooling site in which I want to embed technical demonstration video I added on youtube into the classifield listing on my site, can anyone tell me if this can be done, and if so how?

Allow all the users to do it.
http://www.geomodules.com/index.php?l=product_detail&p=13

[ddummitt]

The simplest way would be to make sure that the EMBED tag is allowed in your Allowed HTML settings, then just paste the code that youtube gives directly into the Description field when placing a listing.


I got this to work if i turn off the Rich text editor (tinymce). is there a smiple way to do it with the rich text editor on?

[Matt]

click the button marked HTML in the editor's toolbar. That'll open a window where you can paste in the code.

[ddummitt]

I may have caught that one but I don't have the HTML button.

I'm running Enterprise 3.01 with the provided TinyMCE. I presume that the HTML button was not activated on this version or not available... Is this correct?

Searching tinymce reveals a thread discussing upgrading tinymce and/or activating some features but there was no real instructions.

[Astonlee]

I was put off using the embed tag for the security reason by a friend, but having added some video now to the site, and seen in hours how quickly they were picked up by Google searches (in some cases 1 or 2nd page in less than 24 hours) I would like now to use the embed tag has a simpler & better way to add these videos onto my site, what is your opinion about this issue?

[bgordon]

The embed tag itself does not impose any real security risk... it is just a tag, like <img> and <a href>. Don't be afraid to use it.

When you allow your sellers to embed video, you need to be concerned about approving it.

If I was a sneaky spammer, I would place my ad with one video, wait for approval, then edit it to some other video. Unless you want to start approving every modification, this could result in many spam postings, porn videos etc which, unless that is your market, could hurt you in many ways.

So, if you place the embedded video into your pages in the templates or included files, you can safely control content.

I don't know enough about Lance's module to know what security precautions (if any) are in place to stop people from embedding inappropriate content on your site.

Hope this helps.

Bill