Embed You Tube Video on Home Page

I have searched the forum to try to find out how to embed a you tube video into my home page center content area but so far I have only found out how to embed into ezpage or product page.

When I embed into the define main page, it shows up as text and not a video. I used the text and also the html <> areas and still no go, still shows up as text.

I know I am missing something here and I am asking for help.

Can someone please direct me in the right way in case I have missed a thread explaining how to embed you tube on home page.

Thanks

I have a video embedded in an EZ page. Originally had the same code/video on my home page and it showed up exactly the same as in this example:

http://chilloutfashions.com.au/index.php?main_page=page&id=14&chapter=1

Source code:

<div> <object height="322" width="512"><param name="movie" value="http://d.yimg.com/static.video.yahoo.com/yep/YV_YEP.swf?ver=2.2.46" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="AllowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#000000" /><param name="flashVars" value="id=3003680&vid=642350&lang=fr-fr&intl=fr&thumbUrl=http%3A//l.yimg.com/a/i/us/sch/cn/v/v1/w857/642350_320_224.jpeg&embed=1" /><embed allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" bgcolor="#000000" flashvars="id=3003680&vid=642350&lang=fr-fr&intl=fr&thumbUrl=http%3A//l.yimg.com/a/i/us/sch/cn/v/v1/w857/642350_320_224.jpeg&embed=1" height="322" src="http://d.yimg.com/static.video.yahoo.com/yep/YV_YEP.swf?ver=2.2.46" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="512"></embed></object><br /> <a href="http://fr.video.yahoo.com/watch/642350/3003680">20 Ways How to Tie a Sarong</a> sur <a href="http://fr.video.yahoo.com">Yahoo! Vidéo</a></div>

Admittedly this is not a You Tube video but hosted at Yahoo!. The principle, however, is the same. So I believe your corresponding You Tube code should work just the same on your home page.

Thank you! I will try it out and post what I come out with. I appreciate your help.

Just grabbed a random video from You Tube and pasted this code into the home page using the define pages editor - it worked just fine :yes:

<div> <object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zkd5dJIVjgM?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zkd5dJIVjgM?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object> </div>

Frank,
I tried this out, still no go...even tried it with your code...still shows up as text...hummm...

I'll have to research this later today...not sure why it's not showing up for me. Thanks anyway.

perkiekat:

Frank,
I tried this out, still no go...even tried it with your code...still shows up as text...hummm...

Do you have the WYSIWYG editor one? Turn that OFF and just use the straight HTML interface when pasting it in. If using the WYSIWYG editor it may think that is supposed to be text and not actual HTML.

Eric,
I double checked to be sure I had the html editor turned off and it is and I used the text only to embed it. I even changed templates to classic just to make sure it wasn't the template I am using throwing it out as text...and it still shows up as text in the Classic template.

So...this tells me I do not have something set right, but I don't know what it is!! It has to be something. Its not the video itself because I have tried other embedded you tube videos and they won't show up either. I'm at lost on what to do here and I have to have this You Tube video inserted for a client.

Any suggestions from anyone would greatly be appreciated!

After playing around with the editor, I don't think its working correctly.

I removed the video and placed text in there using the WYSIWYG editor, changed the text size and when I saved it, it showed up with the html font tags!

The only mod I have installed so far is the COWOA...hummm...may have to reinstall, try the You Tube thing, then install the COWOA.

Geez...what a morning!

Is this 1.3.9g ?

Check post #52 here:

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=165081

Yes it is! Thank you for posting this very important information for me! I will definitely do the fix! I appreciate this very much! Darn...I need to keep up with stuff a little better.

YES!!!
This did the trick! Now I can add all the You Tube's I want!! :yes:

Thank you all for helping me. I deeply appreciate. Now to re-load COWOA and templates!

All Smiles!!

I have no luck with COWOA, getting it to work in any way. Had nothing but problems when I tried. I think it may be your problem.

I have 1.3.9g

I just added video to a product page. Had to add from Categories / Products - Amos n' Andy TV page in "Plain Tex" is did not work in HTML.

One thing I found was you have to have <b> in the start of the Plain text page or it will not work. This may be your problem as well. Sometimes you have more than one problem messing you up.

Check out how my video tuned out here:

http://amosandandy.tv/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=2

Hope this helps,
:o)