Re: [autoembed:182] how to open program

[Bryan Copeland]

Ok, try to follow these steps to setup a test server on your localhost:

1. Download a web server to test it on, I'd suggest XAMPP or WAMP for Windows8 to get you up and running quickly (just beware of common issues that come up running on Win8)
   
2. Get 7zip: http://www.7-zip.org/
   
3. Untar (like unzipping) the autoembed-1.7.tar file
4. That will create a new folder with default name like autoembed-1.7, navigate to it
   
5. Drag and drop the files into a directory inside your htdocs folder in the XAMPP installation
   

Not sure if this is what you're after but its the quick and dirty getting started guide.

On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 2:31 PM, will bethard <1048...@gmail.com> wrote:

hi I downloaded autoembed and got 3 files autoembed-1.7.tar and two others now so to say what do I do I have windows 8 and when I try to open it it says open with internet explorer-notepad-search for windows app-wordpad-windows media player- and a whole lot of others what should I choose to make it work so I can use it

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[Bryan Copeland]

...Forgot the link for XAMPP: http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html

6. Lastly, put the following in a PHP file called "index.php" in your AutoEmbed folder in htdocs (from the guide on the site):

<?php
require "AutoEmbed.class.php"; //will fail if it can't find AutoEmbed PHP library
$AE = new AutoEmbed(); //obtain a new instance of the class
// load an embed source from a remote URL, in this case YouTube
if (!$AE->parseUrl('http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikTxfIDYx6Q')) {
    echo "No embeddable video found (or supported)";
    exit;
}
echo $AE->getEmbedCode();
?>

And all you have to do after following those steps is run your web server (using the XAMPP control panel or WAMP taskbar icon/launcher, depending on which one you went with), then open a browser to:
http://localhost/FOLDER/
(where FOLDER is where you copied/pasted the untarred AutoEmbed PHP files and pasted the above code into your "index.php")
After you've tested and figured out how it works, try uploading to a live web server somewhere for your media embedding needs.

BC

[will bethard]

how do I untar the file and should I do this with the other 2