Media gallery to serve as video embed library

stryguardian

I once had a movie and television discussion forum using Xenforo. I used the media gallery addon as a sort of library of trailers. I'd love to do something similar with Flarum.

How much work would be involved in creating a media gallery type extension that allows for a page with a 4 column grid of embedded videos with titles? The only inputs required would be a video title and the link to the video for the embed. Perhaps it could integrate into the Fancy Box extension to pop out a video when clicked on? Would that be something difficult to do?

askvortsov

How closely would you want this to integrate with other parts of the forum? But tbh, this sounds like a relatively simple extension. At the minimum, you'd need:

Model setup for the media gallery items (models + endpoints + serializers)
An admin page for creating new media gallery items
A forum page for displaying media gallery items

From there, you could add more features / complexity:

a permission for users to see the media gallery page
a permission for users to add media gallery items (use the same API endpoints, but would need a frontend interface)
whatever other functionality you desire