How to use the plugin
The only thing you need to do is including a standard Joomla plugin command within your article content in the exact place where you want the video to appear.
Here is a QTube command in its simplest form:
{qtube vid:=xxx}
In place of xxx you must put the unique identifier YouTube.com has assigned to the video. To obtain it simply visit YouTube site and look at your browser's address bar while you are watching the video you want to include. You will see an url like this
The sequence of characters indicated in the picture above are the video id you need. To include the video in this particular example you would need to use the following command
{qtube vid:=XJKsxmiEWOc}
Plugin parameters
If you need to fully control the look and feel of embedded videos you can use a plugin command containing some additional parameters. Here is an example of a command that includes all possible parameters.
{qtube vid:=xxx w:=320 h:=267 c1:=00ff00 c2:=0000ff b:=1 rel:=1 ap:=1 cl:=class id:=id}
- vid it's the only mandatory parameter and we've already explained it above.
- w, h are used to set video frame width and height in pixels.
- c1, c2 colors used for video player button bar. Use hexadecimal values.
- b (0/1) 1: a border is drawed around video player frame; 0 (zero): no border.
- rel (0/1) 1: links to related videos are displayed once video has finished to play; 0: no related videos.
- ap (0/1) 1: autoplay on, video starts as soon as the page is loaded; 0: no autoplay, users must manually start the video with the 'play' button.
- cl value of class attribute of the html tag <object>. This is for more advanced users who want to control their videos appearence with a css stylesheet.
- id value of id attribute of the html tag <object>. Again for use in a css stylesheet.
Default values for all these parameters (with the obvious exception of vid) can be set from QTube administration page inside Joomla backend: when a parameter's value is not expressely included in a plugin command the default value specified for that parameter is used.
How to use the module
QTube module supports all the configuration parameters explained above. There are two additional parameters, before video and after video to include some text or HTML code before and after the video object.
Once installed the module, all parameters are accessible in Joomla! backend: Extensions -> Module Manager.
