The 2026 Drupal Business Survey is open. Your response will help shape the future of the Drupal business ecosystem.Hi! I've made a very simple patch for video_filter module to support issue.com embedding (and iframe embedding in general).
The problem with issue.com (and some other services) is that it needs some magic document_id for embedding its flash-viewer with object tags, which we can get only through issue.com API. So you can't embed issue.com documents with just URL.
But on a bright side, you can get a flash movie from them, which can easily be embedded via iframe tags, just by adding ?mode=embed at the end of URL.
So I've made a very simple patch to video_filter module, which adds the first iframe-embeddable codec to codecs array and adds some generic functions for iframe-embedding to video_filter "core". :))
Is someone interested in that stuff? It's kinda very simple, so I'm not sure, is it worth it to make a nice looking patch and upload it here. Maybe it's author's choice to avoid iframe-embedding support... :))
| Comment | File | Size | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| #6 | video_filter-1079708-5.patch | 1.33 KB | traviscarden |
| #3 | video_filter-6.x-2.7-issuu-support.patch | 2.52 KB | bachan |
Comments
Comment #1
bachan commentedYou can see an example of issuu.com movie embedded via iframe with video_filter module here:
http://www.diy-zine.com/zines/zatknis-0
It's DIY noise punk magazine from Belarus (in case, that you're wondering).
Comment #2
santam commentedHi Please do tell us how to do this. I have been scratching my head about how we can use this to display scribd and issu files. Scribd is particularly important for us as it can be used to display a lot of different file types. All in all a iframe based solution will improve the applicability of the video filter.
Comment #3
bachan commentedHi! The patch to support issuu.com embedding with iframe tag is attached. You can patch your video_filter-6.x-2.7 version by:
tar -xzvf video_filter-6.x-2.7.tar.gz
cd video_filter
patch -p0 < /path/to/video_filter-6.x-2.7-issuu-support.patch
You can support scribd and any other iframe-embedding by writing your own function in video_filter_issuu()-style, e.g. returning video_filter_iframe() result, but not video_filter_flash() result. Any questions are welcome here or by email (ba4an@yandex.ru). I'm not php developer in general, though.
Comment #4
bachan commentedAnd thanks for killer embedding solution for drupal! Your video_filter rule! :)
Comment #5
blackdog commentedComment #6
traviscarden commentedHere's a new patch that takes advantage of the
video_filter_iframe()function to create the iframe. The regex is also a little more flexible about accepting query strings in the embed code. (The publication I tested with added?mode=window&backgroundColor=%23222222, which should be preserved.)Comment #7
traviscarden commentedCommitted to 7.x-3.x and 6.x-3.x. Thanks!
Comment #8
traviscarden commentedOops. Our approach turned out to be naive: the Issuu API is somewhat more robust. I'm going to try to work with the company to come up with the best solution.
Comment #9
minnur commentedAny update here ? The codec doesn't work. Their URL patterns have changed.
Comment #10
minnur commentedClosing this for now. Feel free to re-open if you have working patch.