[Plugin: Video Thumbnails] DailyMotion not Working

Hi,

Thanks, for this great plugin!

For those of you who have issue with DailyMotion not fetching the thumbnail. I found that their API use SSL and this plugin use CURL but, in some servers, need a parameter to ignore a certificate check.

So, there is a quick & dirty fix:

open the plugin file video-thumbnails.php
locate the definition of the function “getDailyMotionThumbnail”,
add the following curl option between others:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);

So now, it looks like that:

// Get DailyMotion Thumbnail
function getDailyMotionThumbnail($id) {
    if (!function_exists('curl_init')) {
    	return null;
    } else {
		$ch = curl_init();
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://api.dailymotion.com/video/$id?fields=thumbnail_url");
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
	        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
		$output = curl_exec($ch);
		curl_close($ch);
		$output = json_decode($output);
		$output = $output->thumbnail_url;
		return $output;
    }
};

I hope this can help somebody and the author will take this in consideration on his next updates.

Thanks

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