Xobor.com - official support forum

Hi Lizzy,

as you've noticed already: for some reason dailymotion refuses to provide an easy option to get the "embed"-link for the video. We used to hardcode the translation for daylimotion link into the forum software but since the link structure has been changed a few times in the last years we just don't see the point in it.

The solution you fond in the German support forum add a custom forum code [dailymotion] which creates an iframe to load the video in.

To get this to work, you need to do the following:

1) go to Admin → Layout → Iconbar,
choose add Icon → Forum Code

2) The new code should look like this:

Replace: [dailymotion]http://www.dailymotion.com/video/ ... [/dailymotion]
with: <iframe frameborder="0" width="480" height="270" src="http://www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/ ... "></iframe>


3) Move the code to the group "not visible" (since it will just be working in the background)

4) Now you can use a code like this in your forum posts to load the video:
[dailymotion]http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xpupl3_david-lynch-crazy-clown-time-official-video_shortfilms[/dailymotion]

Note that this will only recognize Videos where the url starts with http://www.dailymotion.com/video/ and it assumes that dailymotion provides the embedded version under http://www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/
The code might not work when dailymotion changes the url structure again...

If you want to also allow for your users to provide links in other formats (i.e http://www.dailymotion.com/hub/...) you will have to create a custom forum code for each version.

I hope this helps...