rowland/youtubethumbnailhelper

YoutubeThumbnailHelper

Easily create youtube thumbnails with play buttons watermarked on the top for laravel and private projects. A youtube thumbnail generator package for Laravel, _(*1)

A class based on "YouTube Thumbnail Enchancer by Hal Gatewood". You can check it out here., _(*2)

Simply, add this class into your View/Helper directory and access it from view just like this:, _(*3)

Installation

Add the following to you composer.json file (Recommend swapping "dev-master" for the latest release), _(*4)

"rowland/youtubethumbnalhelper": "dev-master"

Run

composer update, _(*5)

Add the following to app/config/app.php

'Rowland\YoutubeThumbnailHelper\YoutubeThumbnailHelperServiceProvider',

Run the package migration

php artisan migrate --package=rowland/youtubethumbnalhelper

Publish the config, _(*6)

php artisan config:publish rowland/youtubethumbnalhelper

Optionally tweak the settings in the many config files for your app. Optionally copy the youtubethumbnalhelper config file (src/config/youtubethumbnalhelper.php) to your administrator model config directory., _(*7)

Create the relevant image upload directories that you specify in your config, e.g., _(*8)

public/assets/packages/rowland/youtubethumbnalhelper/youtube/play

Simple now you can access it from view/model or controller just like this:, _(*9)

YoutubeThumbnailHelper::register("http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdIerlxIcHO")->create_image()