Embed 3rd-party videos into CKEditor for Drupal 7?

Does anyone have any further adive on how to actually embedd 3rd party videos into the CKEditor (7.x-1.6/3.6.2) so that they show up. I have edited one of my CKEditor profiles (full, all HTML allowed) under "Editor Appearance" to include the MediaEmbed icon in the toolbar and have the "Plugin for inserting Drupal embeded media" checked. The icon does appear in the toolbar and provides a dialog box for copying and pasting the link, e.g. iframe, object or whatever. But then I just get a boundary box, some icons indicating the media files should be there, with no video.

I tried adding CKEDITOR.config.extraPlugins = "media, embedmedia"; and some permutations of this into the "Advanced section" of the editor profile with no luck.

Has anybody achieved this in CKEditor without resorting to a contributed Drupal module for embedding media?

Fri, 03/16/2012 - 08:36

mkesicki

Joined: 28/10/2010

Posts: 348

Re: Embed 3rd-party videos into CKEditor for Drupal 7?

Hi,

Nix wrote:I tried adding CKEDITOR.config.extraPlugins = "media, embedmedia"; and some permutations of this into the "Advanced section" of the editor profile with no luck.

if you see "Media" button in toolbar, this is unnecessary.
We have to check why only 'video' icon shows in post no video.
Please be patient.

Fri, 03/16/2012 - 16:08

nix

Joined: 13/03/2012

Posts: 6

Re: Embed 3rd-party videos into CKEditor for Drupal 7?

Thanks for your response Michał. I just want to clarify that no "media" button shows up in the tool bar, only an "embedmedia" button. When I click that I get a box to paste in the code; from the Vimeo examples I was using it generated iframe tags and that's what I pasted in. The result was a boundary box with serval media icons inside of it, e.g. realplayer, quicktime, etc. The same occurs when I use the iframe button but then I only get a boundary box with iframe text inside. Again, I am using a full profile which allows for all html tags. Ckeditor is in my sites/all/modules/ckeditor folder - the way it comes packaged from your download site.

Thanks and I will wait for your response.

Mon, 03/19/2012 - 09:50

mkesicki

Joined: 28/10/2010

Posts: 348

Re: Embed 3rd-party videos into CKEditor for Drupal 7?

@Nix,
to see media button you should check "Plugin for inserting images from Drupal media module" option in "Editor appearance" section of CKEditor's profile configuration. Of course , media module should be enabled in drupal modules page.
To use MediaEmbed plugin you should check "Plugin for inserting Drupal embeded media " option in "Editor appearance" section of CKEditor's profile configuration.
After inserting/embed media with this plugin, you will see 'fake element' (this looks as you described) not flash player or something like this. This is how MediaEmbed plugin works.
Hope, this clarify things.

Mon, 03/26/2012 - 21:22

nix

Joined: 13/03/2012

Posts: 6

Re: Embed 3rd-party videos into CKEditor for Drupal 7?

Thanks, I actually see the videos appearing after saving the piece of content.