Hello
So I want to make it very easy for site visitors to share videos that they find on youtube.
At first I was requiring them to copy and paste the embed code and the video url(for like buttons)
I feel that it's a little to much for them and most of the time they mess up.
Now I want to store only the url but the most important aspect of the url is the variable "v".
Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccT8C2wSC6Y
The important piece is ?v=ccT8C2wSC6Y
unfortunately when that variable is stored inside the database I don't know how to grab the ?v=ccT8C2wSC6Y
part which is needed for thumbnails.
My question is... how can I store the video url http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccT8C2wSC6Y inside the database
and later grab the ?v=ccT8C2wSC6Y part only.
(just entering in ?v=ccT8C2wSC6Y is not a solution for other reasons)
grabbing variable...from inside a string
Re: grabbing variable...from inside a string
So what you want is the actual video id?
if so, here's my solution:
/Edit2; I did some more thinking and this is what I came up with.
if so, here's my solution:
<?php $var = "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccT8C2wSC6Y"; $array = explode("?",$var); $var2 = substr($array[1], 2); echo $var2;/Edit; This will obviously only work if the input string always looks the same. If your users copy and paste a link from a playlist or anything else that changes the URL you would need to disallow that.
/Edit2; I did some more thinking and this is what I came up with.
<?php $var = "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QktSpv6f ... ucpOmXccJP"; $array = explode("v=",$var); $var2 = $array[1]; $array2 = explode("&",$var2); echo $array2[0];this will allow for any url input and will always pick the $_GET'['v'] variable.
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Re: grabbing variable...from inside a string
Thanks worked like a charm
Re: grabbing variable...from inside a string
There are better ways of doing this.
I'm guessing you could use regex to do this too, but my belief is that regex syntax is the devil, so I haven't bothered learning it.
I'm guessing you could use regex to do this too, but my belief is that regex syntax is the devil, so I haven't bothered learning it.
Re: grabbing variable...from inside a string
There are better ways of doing this.
I'm guessing you could use regex to do this too, but my belief is that regex syntax is the devil, so I haven't bothered learning it.
I'm guessing you could use regex to do this too, but my belief is that regex syntax is the devil, so I haven't bothered learning it.