Question

I got a codeigniter website what handles youtube videos.

Somet details are stored it the database, id, title, embed, thumbnail, description, duration.

I managed to show the list of videos.

And I would like that if someone clics on the thumbnail, it loads up the video.

Well I didn’t had any luck with it.

I’m trying <a href='video?video_name_here'>thumbnail</a> then go to the video page and show the video embed.

I don’t want anybody to write it for me, i just only would like a more experienced persons help giving me a hint.

Thank you.

Answer 1

You must have videos controller with a play method that takes the video url as an argument. I appreciate you wanna try it so im just givin you a mock up here.

Class Videos extends CI_Controller {
  function play($url) {
   embed_play($url);
 }
}

In your links in thumbnails do this

<?php echo anchor("videos/play/".$video_url,"Video 1"); ?>

Hope this helps