Open-Realty YouTube Addon
This Addon was created for
Propert Center a real
estate agent in Sosua, Dominican Republic.
They have agreed with me to release this addon
for free to the OR community and any person who is using OR for his any kind of web site.
The addon is licenced under the MPL, the GPL, and LPGL.
This addon is based on the work of the
VTour URL addon create by Mick.
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This addon enable you to show a YoutTube video attached to any property in
your database listing. The video can be embedded inside the detail description page
of the property or open up in a new popup window. This setting is configurable from
the admin control panel.
You need to have an account on YouTube and be able to create your on Video.
If you are working with WinXP then you can create your Video with the Windows Movie Maker
application that comes with it. From the Start menu open Program\Accessories\Windows Movie Maker
See this page
on the Property Center web site to see how it is embedded on listing detail page.
If you are using it, send me an email and I will add a link to the web site where you are using it for others
to see some other demos.
How to Install
Just download the YoutTube addon zip file, uncompress it in the addon folder
of your Open Realty installation.
How to use it
- You need to go to the OR admin page on your web site and click on the "Edit Listing Template".
- Add the YouTube URL Addon field to all the classes that that will have the YouTube Video.
Select the field "YouTube URL(addon_youtube)" as shown below
Then select all the classes that will have the YouTube Video. (See the arrow)
Save your changes!
You need to put this tag {addon_youtube_link} in your listing detail page
(/template/your_template_name/listing_detail_*.html).
The admin panel
If you would like to set the behavior of your YouTube Video, go to your admin page.
Then click on the "URL YouTube Addon Config" link at the bottom of the admin panel, just
under all the icons in the Addons section of the admin panel.
You will end up on the "Addon YouTube Configurator" as shown below.
Configure everything to your taste and save the changes.
Your done and ready to add some YouTube videos to your properties!
You can download it from this web site