CustomBB Code: Twitter Video

Twitter is a micro blogging and social networking platform introduced in 2006, they have had video embedding for some time now and a CustomBBCode was requested at UBBCentral.

Example at VNC Web Services.

Use the "Import Tags" tool in the Control Panel (CP -> Tools & Information -> Content Rebuilder -> Custom Tag Editor (tab)) to import the below CustomTags.txt

CustomTags.txt

Code

<?php
$export_tags = array (
  0 => 
  array (
    'tag' => 'video:twitter',
    'descrip' => 'Video: Twitter',
    'prompt' => 'Twitter URL; eg: https://twitter.com/user/status/xxxxxxxxxx',
    'regex' => '(.*twitter.com)/(.+?)/status/([0-9]+)',
    'markup' => '<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="\\\\1/\\\\2/status/\\\\3">Embedded Video</a></blockquote>
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>',
  ),
);
?>

Note that the embedding URL cannot contain any "additional trash", linked videos had extra coding in the URLs, this embedding code is designed to intake only the "embed url" specified in the Twitter Embed option (within the ... menu).