SilverStripe EmbedField

This field is designed to let users attached an oembed object (eg a YouTube video) to a page or dataobject. It stores the oembed result information in an EmbedObject for easy access from the template (or wherever you want it).

Work in progress.

Maintainer Contacts

Nathan Cox ([email protected])

Requirements

• SilverStripe 3.1+

Documentation

GitHub

Installation Instructions

1. Place the files in a directory called mapfield in the root of your SilverStripe installation
2. Visit yoursite.com/dev/build to rebuild the database

Usage Overview

Make a has_one relationship to an EmbedObject then create an EmbedField in getCMSFields:

class Page extends SiteTree {

	// has one video
	static $has_one = array(
	  'Video' => 'EmbedObject'
	);

	function getCMSFields() {
		$fields = parent::getCMSFields();

		// add the EmbedField for managing Video
		$fields->addFieldToTab('Root.Main', $embedField = EmbedField::create('VideoID', 'Sidebar video'));

		// Specify that only videos can be embedded here (optional)
		// Options are video, rich, link, photo or false (for any)
		$embedField->setEmbedType('video');

		return $fields;
	}

}

Gives us:

In the page template the video can now be embedded with $Video.

Each embed type is rendered with it's own template (eg EmbedObject_video.ss and EmbedObject_photo.ss). The default templates just return the markup generated by SilverStripe's OembedResult::forTemplate(). You can override them in your theme:

themes/mytheme/templates/Includes/EmbedObject_video.ss:

	<div class='flex-video self-sizing' style='padding-bottom:$AspectRatioHeight;'>
		$HTML
	</div>

This can be combined with your own CSS to make aspect ratio aware flexible video (see http://alistapart.com/article/creating-intrinsic-ratios-for-video).

Known Issues

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