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By kerazyguy on
Ok guys i'm making a site that users can post videos as pages basically they put a YouTube link in it and right a review about said YouTube video... is what i want is the "teaser" of this page to be the first screenshot of their video... automatically... is this possible? i'm sorry i am extremely new to Drupal and to webdesign but i'm a very quick learner. thanks in advance! :)
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Hi kerazyguy First of all
Hi kerazyguy
First of all the modules you need :
Embedded Media Field With this module you can post videos from third party and get screenshots (thumbnails) automaticaly from like for example youtube.
Content Construction Kit You'll need this module to create a new content type and create a field for your videos
Views if you want to have youtube like teasers views can do that for you
Fivestar This is one for adding a rating system and if you want to make a page where you rank videos that can also be done with views
Better read some tutorials and watch some screencasts but what you need can easily be done with drupal. Wish you good luck
I had all of that except for
I had all of that except for "views" which i'm having some difficulty figuring out how to use... there are a few tutorials but they don't seem to coincide with what is on my screen when i am following along. now also there is something called "views 2" which seems to be the help file for views? but i don't see how to actually make the 2 work together I've added "views 2" to my Modules file on my web hosting and usually that is all it takes to have the module take effect (that and enabling it on the site) but there is nothing to enable on this one? have any ideas? or any good tutorials for views? thanks again for the help!
Just try re downloading views
Just try re downloading views 2 and for a beginner tutorial i suggest you watch these screencasts
Drupal Views tutorial from got drupal A beginner tutorial
Building Views with Fivestar and VotingAPI And this is a tutorial you may need for listings rated videos.
Well i got it updated to
Well i got it updated to "views 2" (re-installed it) thanks and i watched those tutorials but they do not really say anything about getting a teaser that is similar to YouTube's i have it where it show's the teasers that are in drupal but i don't know how to change them to be just a thumbnail like YouTube... any ideas?
Maybe Teasers is the wrong word, I am essentially wanting a thumbnail that is linked to the node containing the embedded YouTube video. I would love to use views with this seeing as it sorts everything exactly how i want but i do not know how to make it look pretty lol.