drmonkeyninja/cakephp-video-helper

CakePHP helper for embedding YouTube and Vimeo videos

VideoEmbed

, _(*1)

This plugin provides a Video helper that generates the tags for embedding videos from Youtube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, BBC player and Wistia., _(*2)

Requirements

The master branch has the following requirements:-, _(*3)

• CakePHP 3.0.0 or greater.
• PHP 5.3.0 or greater.

VideoEmbed for CakePHP 2.x

If you want VideoEmbed for your 2.x application, you can use the latest 2.x version of the plugin (see the 2.x branch)., _(*4)

Installation

This plugin can be installed using Composer:-, _(*5)

composer require drmonkeyninja/cakephp-video-helper:3.*

Alternatively copy the plugin to your app/Plugin directory and rename the plugin's directory 'VideoEmbed'., _(*6)

Then add the following line to your bootstrap.php to load the plugin., _(*7)

CakePlugin::load('VideoEmbed');

Usage

echo $this->Video->embed($video['Video']['url'], array(
    'width' => 450,
    'height' => 300,
    'failSilently' => true // Disables warning text when URL is not recognised
));

// Advanced usage
echo $this->Video->embed($video['Video']['url'], array(
    'width' => 450,
    'height' => 300,
    'allowfullscreen' => 1,
    'loop' => 1,
    'color' => '00adef',
    'show_title' => 1,
    'show_byline' => 1,
    'show_portrait' => 0,
    'autoplay' => 1,
    'frameborder' => 0
));

Some of these settings are applicable only to Vimeo if the video is on Youtube, Dailymotion or Wistia they are ignored., _(*8)