How to embed YouTube videos in PHP?

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Can anyone give me an idea how can we show or embed a YouTube video if we just have the URL or the Embed code?

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13 Answers

You have to ask users to store the 11 character code from the youtube video.

For e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahg6qcgoay4

The eleven character code is : Ahg6qcgoay4

You then take this code and place it in your database. Then wherever you want to place the youtube video in your page, load the character from the database and put the following code:-

e.g. for Ahg6qcgoay4 it will be : 

<object width="425" height="350" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ahg6qcgoay4" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ahg6qcgoay4" /></object>
user_4269960

Do not store the embed code in your database -- YouTube may change the embed code and URL parameters from time to time. For example the <object> embed code has been retired in favor of <iframe> embed code. You should parse out the video id from the URL/embed code (using regular expressions, URL parsing functions or HTML parser) and store it. Then display it using whatever mechanism currently offered by YouTube API.

A naive PHP example for extracting the video id is as follows:

<?php
    preg_match(
        '/[\\?\\&]v=([^\\?\\&]+)/',
        'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzHvVoUGTOM&feature=channel',
        $matches
    );
    // $matches[1] should contain the youtube id
?>

I suggest that you look at these articles to figure out what to do with these ids:

To create your own YouTube video player:

user_870150

Use a regex to extract the "video id" after watch?v=

Store the video id in a variable, let's call this variable vid

Get the embed code from a random video, remove the video id from the embed code and replace it with the vid you got.

I don't know how to deal with regex in php, but it shouldn't be too hard

Here's example code in python:

>>> ytlink = 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-dXUEbBz70'
>>> import re
>>> vid = re.findall( r'v\=([\-\w]+)', ytlink )[0]
>>> vid
'7-dXUEbBz70'
>>> print '''<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/%s&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/%s&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>''' % (vid,vid)
<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7-dXUEbBz70&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7-dXUEbBz70&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
>>>

The regular expression v\=([\-\w]+) captures a (sub)string of characters and dashes that comes after v=

hasen_j_353640
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You can simply create a php input form for Varchar date,give it a varchar length of lets say 300. Then ask the users to copy and paste the Embed code.When you view the records, you will view the streamed video.

Admin1

luvboy,

If i understand clearly, user provides the URL/code of the Youtube video and then that video is displayed on the page.

For that, just write a simple page, with layout etc.. Copy video embed code from youtube and paste it in your page. Replace embed code with some field, say VideoID. Set this VideoId to code provided by your user.

edit: see answer by Alec Smart.

Akshay_3561450
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