Creating a video content type - how to include your YOUTUBE or GOOGLE video's in your Drupal CMS - step by step.

This guide assumes you are using CCK.

So the basic idea is this - you want a video content type, but you don't want to host the video (bandwith and filesize issues).  The CMS users don't what to embed code, but asking them to include a URL seems reasonable enough.

The Googtube module is a good choice here.  It recognises Google and Youtube URLs and puts the appropriate embed code in automatically.  This means that all you need is to create a content type with a field that asks for the appropriate URL, the user submits the URL - and hey presto, as if by magic, the finished content has the video and player.

Step 1

Download and expand the googtube module.

Copy your expanded 'googtube' folder to your drupal installation sites/all/modules directory.

Enable the module in administer>modules.

Now you need to configure your input format, you'll find it in administer>configuration>input formats, go to your selected format, click configure and check the 'googtube filter' box under filters.

Check the order of your filters: click on 'rearrange', you want to see that the googtube embed won't be affected by higher up filters.  Reorder if necessary.  After the HTML filter (not the HTML corrector) and before the URL filter is recommended.

Now your module is good to go - what next?

Step 2

Creating and setting up your content type.

Create a content type (using CCK) Administer>Content>Content Templates

Go to the 'Manage Fields' tab and add a new field: field type of 'text', with a 'text field' widget.  I usually set the display at about 80 for a text field, it doesn't matter unless you limit the size of the content.  Add a bit of help text along the lines of 'enter your video URL here, it should have the format of ... example'.

If you are displaying your content by adding it to the taxonomy term do not forget to add it in the taxonomy page:

Home › Administer › Content management › Taxonomy, click on edit taxonomy and check your content type.

Create a piece of content with a you tube link.

Go to the template and select the variable that has the embed code, it will be your content field and value - change check_plain to check_markup.

da da!

Now why don't you go style crazy and add some css.