charltondurie Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 I am building a component where users enter a Youtube URL and press save. I need to run some code on the form field where the URL was entered to strip all but the unique identifier. i.e. something like this: $url = 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VaAlaIJ384&feature=rec-LGOUT-real_rev-rn-4r-10-HM'; strip all befor (including) 'v=' strip all after (including) '&' Can anyone suggest how I would do this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenrbnsn Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 You can do it the brute force method with two explodes: <?php $url = 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VaAlaIJ384&feature=rec-LGOUT-real_rev-rn-4r-10-HM'; list($part1,$part2) = explode('&',$url); list($dmy,$v) = explode('=',$part1); echo $v; ?> or by using parse_url and parse_str <?php $url = 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VaAlaIJ384&feature=rec-LGOUT-real_rev-rn-4r-10-HM'; $query_str = parse_url($url,PHP_URL_QUERY); parse_str($query_str,$params); echo $params['v']; ?> Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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