New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Quicktime embedding plugin

26 Feb 2007


      The following extension will allow embedding of QT videos in your wiki 
pages. (Well, it does for me.) Thanks to the author of the gflash 
extension; since I'm not actually a PHP programmer, this started out as 
his gflash extension, and much of the code and comments are unchanged 
from that extension.
Use; place in your extensions directory, in a file called 'qtmov.php'. 
Put include statement in LocalSettings.php (see comment at start of 
code.) Markup is of form:
<qtmov>320 240 mymove.mov</qtmov>
First number is width of display area, second is height, movie will be 
scaled to fully fit within display area.
For me, this works with Firefox (OS X and Windows XP) and IE on XP.
Caveats:
* Not much testing. Don't know what happens if user doesn't have 
appropriate qt plugin installed on system. (It's _supposed_ to show an 
appropriate message, according to description on markup I cut and pasted.)
* Security?
* Dunno what happens with media types that aren't understood. Security?
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<?php
# Copy into .../extensions/qtmov.php.
#
# To activate the extension, include it from your LocalSettings.php
# with: include("extensions/qtmov.php");
# Use:
#    <qtmov>320 240 mymove.mov</qtmov>
# First number is width of display area, second is height, movie will be 
scaled to fully fit within display area.
#
# Many thanks to author of 'gflash' extension (whose name I can't 
immediately find, sorry.)
$wgExtensionFunctions[] = "wfQTMovExtension";
function wfQTMovExtension() {
global $wgParser;
# register the extension with the WikiText parser
# the first parameter is the name of the new tag.
# the second parameter is the callback function for processing the text 
between the tags
$wgParser->setHook( "qtmov", "renderQTMov" );
}
# The callback function for converting the input text to HTML output
function renderQTMov( $input ) {
$exploin = explode(" ",$input);
$width = $exploin[0];
$height = $exploin[1];
$filename = $exploin[2];
$output = ('<object classid="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" 
width="'
.$width.
'"height="'
.$height.
'" codebase="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab%22%3E<param 
name="src" value="'
.$filename.
'"><param name="autoplay" value="false"> <param name="controller" 
value="true"> <param name="scale" value="aspect"><embed src="'
.$filename.
'" autoplay="false" loop="false" controller="true" scale="aspect" width="'
.$width.
'"height="'
.$height.
'" pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/%22%3E</embed>');
return $output;
}
?>