Parsing Youtube in preg_replace in PHP?



Hi,

I am attempting to parse the video ID of a youtube URL using preg_match. I found a regular expression on this site that appears to work;

(?<=v=)[a-zA-Z0-9-]+(?=&)|(?<=[0-9]/)[^&\n]+|(?<=v=)[^&\n]+

My PHP code is as follows:

<?php
<?
 $subject = "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_AbfPXTKms&NR=1";

 preg_match("(?<=v=)[a-zA-Z0-9-]+(?=&)|(?<=[0-9]/)[^&\n]+|(?<=v=)[^&\n]+", $subject, $matches);

 print "<pre>";
 print_r($matches);
 print "</pre>";

?>

1 year 47 weeks ago   Tags:


Try the following code:

<?php

$url = "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_AbfPXTKms&NR=1"
 
$pattern = getPatternFromUrl($url); //this will retun video id

function getPatternFromUrl($url)
{
$url = $url.'&';
$pattern = '/v=(.+?)&+/';
preg_match($pattern, $url, $matches);
//echo $matches[1]; die;
return ($matches[1]);
}

?>