AllVideos Plugin - One Field + Options

Hi Guys,

I don't know if that might be possible and if there might be a solution for this, if not, I will try to manage without it.

We are using the AllVideos plugin from JoomlaWorks to embed videos from various sources within FlexiContent, we want to basically provide frontend users the possibility to add videos to their respective items from video streaming websites such as Youtube, Vimeo etc. So far, we know how to make content plugins work with FC, but!

What we want to do, instead of providing 10 fields, one for Vimeo, a second one for Youtube etc. Is it possible to make a single field so that the user can choose from which source (youtube, vimeo etc.) that he wants to add video and then include the video corresponding ID?

I know it's quite complex what we are trying to do but we want to try to avoid the user seeing 10 fields and add his ID in only one field, if that is possible, that would be great, if not, we'll just provide whatever number of fields required so the user may choose one of them to add the ID.

We were thinking that will the our image/gallery field gives great editing and displaying flexibility we have no video specific field to allow easy video selection and it is in the TODO ...

So, currently there is no single field to do this.

But it is possible to do with 2 fields, 1 FC select field to select type of video and one FC text field to enter the video id/data, name these (fieldname) videotype and videodata

-- for select field videotype enter elements:
{youtube}%s{/youtube}::Youtube Video%% {flv}%s{/flv}%%
{mp3}%%{/mp3}%% ...ETC...

-- Use this FAQ article to combine the fields inside template file item.php (or category_items.php)
Triggering Contents Plugins to create a customized layout of your fields, to e.g. Sliders or Tabs/ render a google maps plugin /etc

The code ON WHICH to trigger plugins will be (see FAQ article will be):
Test the above and correct if needed ...

Regards

Hello, in upcoming version you can use the field value of another field inside the value prefix/ value suffix/field open text /field close text of another field so it will be possible to do what you describe

ggppdk wrote: Hello, in upcoming version you can use the field value of another field inside the value prefix/ value suffix/field open text /field close text of another field so it will be possible to do what you describe

Hi, thank you very much for this update, very much appreciated, just as information, is there a release date scheduled for the upcoming version please?

a few days , by weekend

That's great, thank you very much.