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18 years 1 month ago - 15 years 8 months ago #117 by JoomlaWorks

TIP: Add videos to VirtueMart products - with the help of the AllVideos Plugin! was created by JoomlaWorks

[this tutorial was written for Virtuemart v1.0.x - the newest release supports plugin parsing natively]

AllVideos has made it very easy for people since June 2006 ( :D) to add videos in their Joomla! content. So a natural progression to this would be to add videos in e-shops/product pages as well. We all know that VirtueMart is the best e-shop implementation out there.

So how do we enable video playback in VirtueMart, in an easy manner, similar to the AllVideos Plugin? Well... we just enable the use of AllVideos inside VirtueMart! :D

Here's the solution to enable the plugin for the "product details" page:

Open up the file administrator/components/com_virtuemart/html/shop.product_details.php and in the end of it, look for:

/* Finish and Print out the Page */
echo $template;

and add ABOVE this some code. Overall the change is this:

// start - enable "content type" plugin parsing
   global $_MAMBOTS;
   $_MAMBOTS->loadBotGroup( 'content' );
   $row->text = $template;
   $results = $_MAMBOTS->trigger( 'onPrepareContent', array( &$row, &$params, $page ), true );
   $template = $row->text;
// end - enable "content type" plugin parsing

/* Finish and Print out the Page */
echo $template;

This will load the "content type" plugins in VirtueMart. That means that you can use the AllVideos Plugin to add videos in your products (as showcase) and even use the "Tabs & Slides in Content Items" Plugin to display your product's details in Tabs and/or Slides!!

Cool, huh??

Download both from www.joomlaworks.net and have fun!

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18 years 1 month ago - 18 years 1 month ago #118 by Riccardo Mariotti

Replied by Riccardo Mariotti on topic Re: Add videos to VirtueMart products - with the help of the AllVideos Plugin!

hi fotis, i made this change, i wanted to use an swf file in description of a test product, but when i click in the browse page that product to see its flypage i can see only a white page, it doesn't load anything. i use vm 109 and J! 1012 can someone help me to fix this? i thank you all

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18 years 1 month ago #119 by JoomlaWorks

Replied by JoomlaWorks on topic Re: Add videos to VirtueMart products - with the help of the AllVideos Plugin!

Please try applying the hack again...

Works just fine here:

www.clipart.gr/component/page,shop.product_details/category_id,162/flypage,shop.flypage/product_id,2251/option,com_virtuemart/Itemid,60/lang,el/

If you see a white page, perhaps you have some template issue, or the path to the video file is wrong. Otherwise you would just see the Allvideos tags, right? ;)

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18 years 1 month ago #120 by Riccardo Mariotti

Replied by Riccardo Mariotti on topic Re: Add videos to VirtueMart products - with the help of the AllVideos Plugin!

Please try applying the hack again...

Works just fine here:

www.clipart.gr/component/page,shop.product_details/category_id,162/flypage,shop.flypage/product_id,2251/option,com_virtuemart/Itemid,60/lang,el/

If you see a white page, perhaps you have some template issue, or the path to the video file is wrong. Otherwise you would just see the Allvideos tags, right? ;)

thanks for the reply, i use rocketheme vortex maby this is the cause? now i check out the link you gave me

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18 years 1 month ago #121 by Rick Estrada

Replied by Rick Estrada on topic Re: Add videos to VirtueMart products - with the help of the AllVideos Plugin!

you can see i installed it on my cart as i am getting ready to launch with all my products but it worked.. no problem...

www.nogiera.com/component/page,shop.product_details/category_id,16/flypage,shop.flypage/product_id,17/option,com_virtuemart/Itemid,26/

so there is some conflict somewhere.. try installing the basic theme and see if it makes a difference

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18 years 1 month ago #122 by ahmad

Replied by ahmad on topic Re: Add videos to VirtueMart products - with the help of the AllVideos Plugin!

thank you it would be cool to add videos to virtue mart :-*

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17 years 11 months ago #123 by dax702

Replied by dax702 on topic Re: Add videos to VirtueMart products - with the help of the AllVideos Plugin!

Thanks for this very informative post! What if I want to enable the allvideos plugin on a category description page? For example, I have 3 series of one type of product, each has its own sub category under the main. But it would be nice to be able to have a main demo video play at the root category of this product.

What would I need to do to enable that? Or by enabling it on the product details page, does it automatically enable it everywhere else in Virtuemart?

Thanks

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17 years 11 months ago #124 by Airtek

Replied by Airtek on topic Re: Add videos to VirtueMart products - with the help of the AllVideos Plugin!

Please try applying the hack again...

Works just fine here:

www.clipart.gr/component/page,shop.product_details/category_id,162/flypage,shop.flypage/product_id,2251/option,com_virtuemart/Itemid,60/lang,el/

If you see a white page, perhaps you have some template issue, or the path to the video file is wrong. Otherwise you would just see the Allvideos tags, right? ;)

sorry for the ot....but this site it's no nice!
compliments....how do you create the 360° view rotate? ;)

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17 years 11 months ago #125 by dax702

Replied by dax702 on topic Re: Add videos to VirtueMart products - with the help of the AllVideos Plugin!

anyone know about how to make the plugin active on the category description page too?

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17 years 11 months ago #126 by Spider_Mycron

Replied by Spider_Mycron on topic Re: Add videos to VirtueMart products - with the help of the AllVideos Plugin!

Hello,
i'm glad to be here with you guys, and i really wish to know how to activate or configure this great plugin or module.

i have no idea how to find that path, i looked in server and nothing like that ..

woyuld you kindly advice please ?

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17 years 11 months ago #127 by dax702

Replied by dax702 on topic Re: Add videos to VirtueMart products - with the help of the AllVideos Plugin!

Everything is in the instructions about setting up the plugin. This probably is not the right thread to be asking that question. This is for making the plugin work with Virtuemart.

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17 years 11 months ago #128 by Spider_Mycron

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thanks ... and sorry for my fault , hope moderators could remove or move

Thanks

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17 years 10 months ago #129 by dax702

Replied by dax702 on topic Re: Add videos to VirtueMart products - with the help of the AllVideos Plugin!

Thanks for this very informative post! What if I want to enable the allvideos plugin on a category description page? For example, I have 3 series of one type of product, each has its own sub category under the main. But it would be nice to be able to have a main demo video play at the root category of this product.

What would I need to do to enable that? Or by enabling it on the product details page, does it automatically enable it everywhere else in Virtuemart?

Thanks

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17 years 10 months ago #130 by Erik Neff

Replied by Erik Neff on topic Re: Add videos to VirtueMart products - with the help of the AllVideos Plugin!

I'm also curious to know what is necessary to insert videos into virtuemart category pages. I'm going to try to implement the tabbed content on one of my test servers tonight, but I'm curious, has anyone else implemented this, and if so, what does it look like? How about a link?

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17 years 10 months ago #131 by dax702

Replied by dax702 on topic Re: Add videos to VirtueMart products - with the help of the AllVideos Plugin!

If by "anyone else," you're referring to me, don't, because I never got a reply on how to do it :( If anyone knows, please enlighten us

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17 years 10 months ago #132 by djspade

Replied by djspade on topic Re: Add videos to VirtueMart products - with the help of the AllVideos Plugin!

My question is... Is there a implementation of this hack for the "Joomla eCommerce edition"? With VirtueMart integrated into Joomla, that file (and location for that matter) doesn't seem to exist. Help... ???

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17 years 10 months ago #133 by Erik Neff

Replied by Erik Neff on topic Re: Add videos to VirtueMart products - with the help of the AllVideos Plugin!

You must be looking in the wrong place - I don't think virtuemart can function without the file mentioned by fotis. I'm quite sure there is no difference between the file systems of an installed e-commerce edition versus installing joomla and then virtuemart.

Anyways - to follow up with my previous post, I have implemented this fix, and have found that it works quite well. I hope to have this working in one of my production sites shortly. Will link to it when it's ready.

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17 years 10 months ago #134 by dax702

Replied by dax702 on topic Re: Add videos to VirtueMart products - with the help of the AllVideos Plugin!

Are you talking about being able to use the all videos plugin on a virtuemart category page?? If so, how did you do it, which file did you edit?

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17 years 10 months ago #135 by Erik Neff

Replied by Erik Neff on topic Re: Add videos to VirtueMart products - with the help of the AllVideos Plugin!

Hmm...now that I think of it... yes, I do have a video on a category page, and this was working a long time ago, without any mods or hacks or anything - once again, using joomla 1.0.11, virtuemart 1.0.7, and allvideos 2.4. Haven't gotten around to updating these components, partly because I've hacked the core a lot and don't feel like having to re-test every hack, and partly because I've read a lot about problems people had with joomla 1.0.12 and I didn't want to go there...

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17 years 10 months ago #136 by dax702

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oh wow, yeah it's not working for me in all of the latest stable versions. I put the code in the description and it just shows the {youtube} stuff right there on the page. How strange that it used to work but doesn't any longer ???

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