Best way to display videos from youtube or other source on product pages

[josiahjg]

Hello all,
We are going to be adding video product reviews to our store, and I am trying to determine best way to do this. I searched the forums, but all I could find is posts on hosting the video - we will not be hosting the video.

My idea is to have a custom field for the youtube URL, and then a conditional statement where if that field has a value, display code to display video. Else, display nothing.

Is this the best way? If so, what would this code look like? I don't know if there is a better way to do this using toolkit.
Thanks for any help!
Josiah

[John Dee]

Re: Best way to display videos from youtube or other source on product pages

Hi Josiah,

Did you ever get a solution for this? We are trying to implement exactly the same.

Thanks,

John

[jbart]

Re: Best way to display videos from youtube or other source on product pages

Not sure if it is the best way but here is how we do it

<mvt:if expr="l.settings:PRODUCT:CUSTOMFIELD_VALUES:CUSTOMFIELDS:VIDEO NE ''">
<br><br>
<center><iframe width="768" height="432" src="&mvt:product:customfield_values:customfields:video;" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></center>

</mvt:if

Once teh video is uploaded to youtube we just pull the file name from the embed this video function and place it in the custom field called video. The field data is structured like such

//www.youtube.com/embed/2V0htFt7mxg?feature=player_detailpage

in page example

http://tinyurl.com/l338jkx

[josiahjg]

Re: Best way to display videos from youtube or other source on product pages

We did not find a solution yet - a developer is working on an improved lightbox with thumbnails for integrating video.

jbart, thanks for that code, that is helpful for displaying inline on product templates

[Dan - Glendale Designs]

Re: Best way to display videos from youtube or other source on product pages

We have implemented YouTube videos off of the alt image thumbnails for a number of our clients.