Thread

Hi,

I’m new to EE and am trying to build my site in the most effective manner. Trying not to do work-arounds. I’m familiar with HTML, but work in team environs where I am an interactive designer, not an interface programmer.

My issue is video. I want to display videos located on my server that are either .mov or .swf.

I’ve downloaded and installed the Quicktime plugin, but would like to know how to put a tag in my template that displays the movie file entered into a custom field used on the Publish page.

For instance, here is the code example from the plugin description page:

{exp:quicktimeplugin file="/movies/p5_small.mov" width="240" height="180"}

I want to create an “if” statement similar to this:

{if media_hosted_motion}<object><embed src=”{media_hosted_motion}” /></object>{/if}

When I do the later tag, I get the QT logo w/ a question mark, which indicates it’s not using the QT plugin. Obviously my custom field is called “media_hosted_motion”. I seem to recall from the user guide that I cannot do this:

{if media_hosted_motion}{exp:quicktimeplugin file="{media_hosted_motion}” width=“240” height=“180”}>{/if}

You get the idea of what I’m trying to do, so I’ll stop there. The goal is to simply enter the movie file location into a field as I’m writing a post to my weblog.

Any suggestions welcome and appreciated. Also, in a response, please don’t assume I understand much. For instance, looking at the QT plugin tag description, I would assume that a closing tag is required, but the author either assumes I would know that, or I’m assuming too much… 😉

thx.

Are you included the weblog:entries tag before the quicktime code?

This is the template code I use for one of my sites:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="videos" dynamic="off" orderby="date" sort="desc" limit="8"}
{exp:quicktimeplugin file="{videoFile}" width="{videoWidth}" height="{videoHeight}" controller="true" autoplay="false" graphic="{root}themes/site_themes/quicktimePlay.gif" target="myself" bgcolor="fbfbfb" version="6"}


{videoSummary}
{line}
{paginate}
Page {current_page} of {total_pages} pages {pagination_links}
{/paginate}
{/exp:weblog:entries}

Breakdown:
Weblog is called videos
I am displaying a maximum of 8 video’s
My custom_field for the actual quicktime file is {videoFile}.
I also have the width and height as custom fields so it dsplays correctly as different sized video’s are uploaded.
There is also a video summary custom file that is displayed below the video.

I’ve got some extra code in the quicktime section:

controller="true" autoplay="false" graphic="{root}themes/site_themes/quicktimePlay.gif" target="myself" bgcolor="fbfbfb" version="6"

That isn’t required but it just makes it looks nice.

Oh and in terms of the if component I guess

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="videos" dynamic="off" orderby="date" sort="desc" limit="8"}
{if videoFile}

{exp:quicktimeplugin file="{videoFile}" width="{videoWidth}" height="{videoHeight}" controller="true" autoplay="false" graphic="{root}themes/site_themes/quicktimePlay.gif" target="myself" bgcolor="fbfbfb" version="6"}

{/if}
{/exp:weblog:entries}

should work fine.