I would like to be able to automatically output the videos attached to my 'video' content type node using a template. At the moment I have a template called node-video.tpl.php which has this line in it.

print flashvideo_get_video($node);

That works fine if I have only one video attached to the node, but if I have 2 or more it only outputs the first one. Is there a way I can get all videos to be automatically displayed on the node using a custom template? I don't want to require my users to have to type in:-

[video]
[video:index=1]
etc.

Also what do I use to output the thumbnail for a teaser in my template. I can do a test to see if it's a teaser but I don't know what function to call to display the thumbnail (i.e. instead of [thumbnail]).

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.

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NeilPorter commented

Or is there a way to restrict only one video per node? Anyone?

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NeilPorter commented
Title: How to set up my node template » Setting up node template to automatically display more than one video

I've been banging my head on this one for ages now. Travist, surely you know a way to use the function in the template to display all the videos attached to the node and not just the first one?

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NeilPorter commented

Is it that this is impossible with the current code setup or that it's so simple no one is bothering to even tell me because I'm such a dunce?

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attheshow commented

I will say that I don't know how to do this yet, although I haven't looked through the flashvideo_get_video function to see what's possible.

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NeilPorter commented

Thanks for replying attheshow, I was beginning to get paranoid! I'm still looking into this myself but I don't think I'm quite the coder you are so...!

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attheshow commented

I did a little bit more investigation. It looks like you should be able to do this with the following snippet in your template file:

<?php
$params['fids'] = 'node';
print flashvideo_get_video($node, $params);
?>

...but it's not working on my setup. It creates an invalid query (it's pointing at an incorrect table). I'm going to commit a small change to the query (will appear in the 1.x-dev version). We'll see if that fixes it.

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NeilPorter commented

Thank you very much for your efforts. Would you be kind enough to outline the change here so I might patch my version until the dev version makes it to a release.

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attheshow commented

Sure. In version 1.4 of the module, line 1785 of flashvideo.module should be changed to
$sql = "SELECT f.fid FROM {flashvideo} fv LEFT JOIN {files} f ON f.fid = fv.fid WHERE $flashmime AND (fv.status=%d) AND (fv.nid=%d)";

Again, I'm not positive that this will work for the display method you're seeking, but it's worth a shot. And this query definitely needed to be corrected regardless.

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NeilPorter commented

Thank you very much. I've made the change and now no longer get the error with this in the template:-

$params['fids'] = 'node'; print flashvideo_get_video($node, $params);

However it doesn't work as I had hoped.

To test it I attached 4 videos to a node and using the above in my template it only displays the second video and nothing more. Have you got any more ideas on this?

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attheshow commented

Neil,

I believe that when you list all of the files attached to a node, in the way we're discussing above, the module attempts to use some sort of "playlist" functionality to generate the listing. I seem to remember seeing other issues in the queue saying that playlist functionality isn't working for some people in the Drupal 6 version. I'm fairly new to this part of the module code (I haven't used playlists yet myself), so I'll have to dig into it a little bit this evening and see what the issue is. Maybe if I get lucky, I can kill two birds with one stone.

This afternoon, I'm going to be continuing my work on a separate feature #227410: FlashVideo and CCK FileField Integration. I'll get back to this hopefully this evening and see what I can tell you.

-Mark (attheshow)

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attheshow commented

Ok, I made some bug fixes in the playlist include file. Playlists in general were broken prior to this. I recommend giving the 1.x-dev version a shot on your development server and seeing if this change allows you to view all of the videos attached to the node. I believe they are meant to play one after the other in the same player.

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attheshow commented
Version: 6.x-1.4 » 6.x-1.x-dev
Assigned: Unassigned » attheshow
Status: Active » Fixed

The playlist is definitely fixed in the 1.x-dev version of the module. I needed to add an extra Flash variable into my Custom Flashvars:

&playlist=bottom

In order to get the listing of node files to display below the first video. Apparently this is the correct behavior according to the JW Player site.

http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/jw-player-setup-wizard?example=6

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.