OR YouTube Addon
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006This Addon was created for Property Center a real estate agent in Sosua, Dominican Republic.
They have agreed with me to release this addon for free to the OR community and any person who is using OR for any kind of web site. The addon is licenced under the MPL, the GPL, and LPGL.
This addon is based on the work of the VTour URL addon create by Mick.
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Description
This addon enable you to show a YoutTube video attached to any property in your database listing. The video can be embedded inside the detail description page of the property or open up in a new popup window. This setting is configurable from the admin control panel.
You need to have an account on YouTube and be able to create your on Video.
If you are working with WinXP then you can create your Video with the Windows Movie Maker application that comes with it. From the Start menu open Program\Accessories\Windows Movie Maker
Demo
See this page on the Property Center web site to see how it is embedded on listing detail page.
If you are using it, send me an email and I will add a link to the web site where you are using it for others to see some other demos.
Documentation
How to Install
Just download the YouTube addon zip file, uncompress it in the addon folder of your Open Realty installation.
How to use it
- You need to go to the OR admin page on your web site and click on the “Edit Listing Template”.
- Add the YouTube URL Addon field to all the classes that you want to attached a YouTube Video to.
Select the field “YouTube URL(addon_youtube)” as shown below
Then select all the classes that will have the YouTube Video. (See the arrow)
Save your changes!
You need to put this tag {addon_youtube_link} in your listing detail page
(/template/your_template_name/listing_detail_*.html).
The admin panel
If you would like to set the behavior of your YouTube Video, go to your admin page. Then click on the “URL YouTube Addon Config” link at the bottom of the admin panel, just under all the icons in the Addons section of the admin panel.
You will end up on the “Addon YouTube Configurator” as shown below. Configure everything to your taste and save the changes.
Your done and ready to add some YouTube videos to your properties!
Adding a YouTube Video to a property
Go on the YouTube web site at the page showing the video that you want to attached to your property and copy the URL given just on its right.
Then Paste the full URL in the YouTube URL field on the “Modify Listing” page of your property of interest inside the OR administration.
Download
You can download an XHTML versions here YouTube Addon 1.0.0 XHTML compatible. or alternatively if you want support for older browser, you can download this one here YouTube Addon 1.0.0
Support
You will be able to get some support for it by browsing the Custom Addon - Help thread in the Open Realty forum. You can always contact me by email or PM me in the OR forum.
