Embed Mobypicture videos using [shortcodes]
a small walkthrough in building [shortcodes] into plugins

About me
Timan Rebel
Entrepreneur
Social Media Consultant (Rebelic)
Business Development and technical assistance for Mobypicture
WordPress fanatic
plugin and theme development
(TheNextWeb, TechCrunch, FeedForward and my own)

Moby allows you to..

Using any phone

Maxime Verhagen
Dutch Minister
of foreign affairs

Ilse de Lange
Dutch Singer &
Songwriter

Sharing is part of everyday life

Moby can send media to Wordpress
but sometimes you just want to embed an image, video or audio file

Wrote a plugin for that
and to demonstrate [shortcodes] at #wordcampnl

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You've Been Hit By

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You've Been Struck By

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A Smooth Criminal

Wrote a plugin for that
and to demonstrate [shortcodes] at #wordcampnl

Tip: Use Google Analytics Campaign vars
http://wordpress.rebelic.nl/<plugin name>?
utm_source=wordpress&
utm_medium=plugin&
utm_campaign=<plugin name>

What are shortcodes?

Embed a Moby video

Embed a Moby video
See my Moby video

Request video through Moby API
Don’t use Snoopy class, it’s deprecated
Don’t use curl, it might not be available

• postMedia • postComment
• postMediaUrl • getComments
• getThumb • searchPosts
• getThumbUrl
• getMediaInfo • createUser
• checkCredentials
Request API key at api.mobypicture.com

REST API (get/post)
k (api key)
t (tiny url code)
action=getMediaInfo
format=xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<media>
<type>video</type>
<url_thumbnail>http://vid.mobypicture.com/ccb3b610aa3eade07bef239a487f0dd5_thumbnail
<url_square>http://vid.mobypicture.com/ccb3b610aa3eade07bef239a487f0dd5_square.jpg</u
<url_full>http://vid.mobypicture.com/ccb3b610aa3eade07bef239a487f0dd5_full.jpg</url_full>
<url_video>http://vid.mobypicture.com/ccb3b610aa3eade07bef239a487f0dd5.mp4</url_video
<original_width>848</original_width>
<original_height>480</original_height>
<processing>0</processing>
</media>

<?xml version="1.0"?>
Try not to use PHP5+ only functions
Hard with XML, but simple parsing can be done with regexp

Almost finished, let’s return

Custom width and height
[mobyvideo width=1900 height=1080]http://moby.to/c69r6t[/mobyvideo]

Custom width and height

Done!

Thank you for sharing

Timan Rebel
@timanrebel
presentation and plugin code on Mobypicture.com