YouTube Video URL converted to YouTube Embed Code

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scottidesign
Member
Hello support forum,

I want my users to be able to input a URL to a YouTube video, then get only the ID, so that I can embed it how I want into a post (autoplay, size, HD).

For example user enters:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALEUp3kXvvk

Then I want to take that and only use the ID of the video which is ALEUp3kXvvk and insert it into my custom embed:
```
<iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ALEUp3kXvvk?rel=0&autoplay=1&showinfo=0&controls=0&HD=1&modestbranding=1" frameborder="0" width="560" height="315"></iframe>
```
Any help or direction would be much appreciated.

Thanks!
Posted 12 years ago on Tuesday July 31, 2012 | Permalink
Chris Hajer
Key Master
This is not related at all to Gravity Forms, but I've done this before so I can point you in the right direction. See this StackExchange post:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3392993/php-regex-to-get-youtube-video-id

Specifically:
```
[php]
$url = "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4kxS1ksqtw&feature=relate";
parse_str( parse_url( $url, PHP_URL_QUERY ), $my_array_of_vars );
echo $my_array_of_vars['v'];
  // Output: C4kxS1ksqtw
```
That parse_str will work to return the video ID. You will have to change this code example to get $url from your form field, and you likely won't echo $my_array_of_vars['v'] but will use that in your embed code.

Hope that helps.
Posted 12 years ago on Tuesday July 31, 2012 | Permalink
scottidesign
Member

Thanks, I was approaching this problem from Gravity Forms doing the work.

However, using this solution I made another plugin (the plugin that is displaying the video) use this code to pass the video (that Gravity forms got) to my own custom embed in PHP.

Thanks for the help.

Posted 12 years ago on Wednesday August 1, 2012 | Permalink
Chris Hajer
Key Master

Thank you for the update.

Posted 12 years ago on Wednesday August 1, 2012 | Permalink

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