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1. freshifreshy
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

   Does anyone know a way that I could check a post for an embedded video and then do something with that video?

   I want to create a video thumbnail (or a small version of the video) for posts that contain embedded videos, but I'm having a hard time figuring out how I might do this...

2. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

   See this Codex page.

3. freshifreshy
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

   If it's embedded, it's not going to show up as an attachment... Not sure how I could use this...

4. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

   Sorry - I was thinking of a video file that you'd uploaded. I don't think there's an easy way to achieve what you're after. Essentially, you would need to search the whole post content for a specific shortcode or url.

5. freshifreshy
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

   I ended up writing a PHP function. It looks like this.

   function show_thumb() {
   
   	global $post, $posts;
   
   	$thumb = '';
   
     	ob_start();
     	ob_end_clean();
   
   	$output = preg_match_all('/(\<object.*\<\/object\>)/is', $post->post_content, $matches);
   	$thumb = $matches [1] [0];
   
   	if(empty($thumb)) {
   
   		$output = preg_match_all('/<img.+src=[\'"]([^\'"]+)[\'"].*>/i', $post->post_content, $matches);
     		$thumb = $matches [1] [0];	
   
   		if(empty($thumb)) {
   
   			$thumb = "/images/default.jpg";
   
   		} else {
   
   			return '<img src="'.$thumb.'" alt="thumb-'.$post->ID.'" />';
   
   		}
   
   	} else {
   
   		return $thumb;
   
     	}
   
   }

6. Tara Rotten
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   Hey,

   Your code is great, cant get it to pull in the object's ie videos though.

   Ive wrapped all videos in a div (<div class=video>) is there a way to search for this div instead. (all videos are embeded from youtube)

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