Thanks to Hamid at Codehead, LLP for his quick custom hack, it's easy now to embed YouTube videos in your forum posts; here's how:

Find the URL for the YouTube video you wish to embed. Find the ID of that video (whatever is after the v= in the URL. Let's say the ID is vr3x_RRJdd4 (which is the ID of a video for the Free Hugs Campaign)

Then you would enter the following into your post to embed the video:

PHP Code:

[youtube]vr3x_RRJdd4[/youtube]

and this is what you'll get:



Give it a try next time you want to reference a video from YouTube - it's a great way to enhance your post by including the video itself too!