Integrate embed.ly support into the "external media" block

[Aaron Wells]

http://embed.ly is a service that facilitates embedding external content via a URL. You use their API to pass them a URL to, say, a New York Times article, and they read the URL, fetch the right embed for it, and send you back an iframe to embed that NYT article nicely.

There is a non-core embed.ly block written by Gregor Anzelj: https://mahara.org/user/anzeljg/embedly-blocktype

This block works great, but it is a little awkward that if you activate it, your users get two blocks: "External media" and "embed.ly", and these both essentially do the same thing.

What would be better, is that we put optional support for embed.ly dircetly into the "External media" block. So, we provide a space for the site admin to enter an embed.ly API key. If they do that, then we change the help text for the "External media" block so that it indicates you can just paste the site URL in for the whole wide range of sites that embed.ly supports.

[Jinelle Foley-Barnes (jinelleb)]

+1 this idea :)

[Mahara Bot (dev-mahara)]

Patch for "master" branch: https://reviews.mahara.org/5749

[Mahara Bot (dev-mahara)]

Reviewed: https://reviews.mahara.org/5749
Committed: https://git.mahara.org/mahara/mahara/commit/504b09202d902f37f2194392f1e450da02d2776b
Submitter: Robert Lyon (<email address hidden>)
Branch: master

commit 504b09202d902f37f2194392f1e450da02d2776b
Author: Gregor Anzelj <email address hidden>
Date: Sat Dec 12 16:03:04 2015 +0100

Integrate embed.ly support into the "external media" block (Bug #1441395)

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Change-Id: Ie966c72484c06ac33ce7cf93c7b76d453443aad5
Signed-off-by: Gregor Anzelj <email address hidden>