Embedding a YouTube clip with Phoca Download Joomla 1.6

[eheller]

Hi, I'm having a hard time figuring out how to embed a YouTube clip with Phoca Download on Joomla 1.6.

I have seen this page (https://www.phoca.cz/documents/51-phoca- ... oad-plugin) but I don't understand where to put the code.

For example, I create a new file under the Phoca Download Component menu and enter the folllowing code into the description window:

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{phocadownload view=youtube|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha5gaCdulak}

When I save and browse to the article and click the link, I get an "Error while downloading file (Mime Type not found) message." I also don't understand what to put in the required "Filename" field, because when I browse for a file there is nothing like a "Embed YouTube" option....Clearly doing something wrong.

I've been looking for a guide to using YouTube with Phoca but have not had much luck.

Thanks,

Eric

[SonRiab]

You do not have to create a new file for a youtube video.
Just add this code to a new article body and save it. See:


Backend - Article Manager


Frontend - Article

That's all.
But if you want to link a download/category available by the PD component then you have to create it there first.

Hope this makes it clearer for you how to handle the plugin.

King regards!

[eheller]

SonRiab - thanks a ton for the reply. Some odd things - no matter what I do I keep getting <p></p> tags around the phoca code when it's saved. I have changed the Super User filtering to "no filters' and I can currently embed YouTube directly outside of Phoca without it being stripped. Would love any ideas there.

Also:

But if you want to link a download/category available by the PD component then you have to create it there first.

But when I create the YouTube video in an article, how then do you link that to a Phoca category? The only categories available to the Menu item are the "standard" (i.e., non-Phoca created) categories. I'm trying to add a menu item to Phoca categories of files, but not sure how to connect the article back to Phoca if it was not created there?

Appreciate this tremendously!

Eric

[SonRiab]

Backend using CodeMirror as Editor


Frontend

TinyMCE and most other visual editors will surround all lines with the specified tag if nothing else surround it.
Most of them are using p- or div-tags. I am not sure if you can disable it somewhere for the TinyMCE.
If you are a little bit familiar with HTML you can use CodeMirror which does not modify your text.

[eheller]

SonRiab, this is above and beyond. Thanks.

I was able to remove the automatic paragraph tags in the JCE plugin; but no luck.

Switched to CodeWarrior - thanks - but no luck.

Backend looks like this:



Front end article looks like this:



It could be a setting somewhere is precluding it from playing. Either way this was a very enlightening conversation in general and thanks for the efforts.

Eric

[SonRiab]

Do you have enabled the plugin?
See Extensions->Plug-in Manager and search for the Phoca Download Plugin!
If not enable it and have fun!

[eheller]

Well what do you know about that - no plugin, just the component installed! Have installed the plugin and activated it and bingo.

It works as advertised.

Many thanks for the patient help here!

Eric

[SonRiab]

My pleasure!