[Mediawiki-l] Quicktime embedding plugin

[Ken McDonald]

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="'
.$height.
'" codebase="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab"><param 
name="src" value="'
.$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/"></embed>');

return $output;
}

?>