Single field for youtube, vimeo, or video URL on server?

• anagio

• October 15, 2013 at 3:21 pm

I’m planning on doing the following and wondering if there is a field to simplify the code. I’ll use a text area field which will take either youtube, or vimeo embed snippets, youtube or vimeo video URLs, or a URL to a video uploaded to the server mp4 or any other format.

Conditional statements in the post templates will check the field, and if a snippet is used output the snippet. If a URL to a youtube/vimeo video or mp4 or other format is in the field use an HTML5 player.

Is there a field type which would display a drop down and based on the drop down selection show either a text input, or text area so that my conditionals would only need to check if fields were empty or not rather than checking if they contain a URL or snippet which is a little more coding?

Thanks

• Elliot

• October 15, 2013 at 4:42 pm

Hi @anagio

This media field is yet to be created for the ACF plugin.

Someone has made a YouTube field on github, perhaps that would be a good start to look at?

Good luck

Thanks
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• anagio

• October 15, 2013 at 4:44 pm

Thank @elliot i’ll just use a text area and conditionals in the template. I don’t think ACF needs a special field for videos, I was just wondering if any field could display a drop down and show / hide an input based on the select option.

• benoit

• October 16, 2013 at 8:45 pm

Hi,

i found this work and it seems interesting https://bitbucket.org/jupitercow/acf-vimeo-uploader-field

@elliot do you know this plugin ?

• Elliot

• October 17, 2013 at 4:27 pm

Hi @benoit

Thanks for the share. Looks like it would be pretty powerful!

Thanks
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