Question

I have the following code that grabs youtube’s video id from the old share urls (youtube.com/watch?v=adasdalkjsd)

        $url = $_GET['url']; 
        parse_str(parse_url($url, PHP_URL_QUERY), $query); 
        $video_id = isset($query['v']) ? $query['v'] : NULL; 

that works for the old ones but i need a system that can work for both urls. any suggestions?

Answer 1

The URLs are for example: http://youtu.be/QzEcJecXJC4?hd=1

$url = $_GET['url'];
$video_id = substr( parse_url($url, PHP_URL_PATH), 1 );

See parse_url. PHP_URL_PATH will give you /QzEcJecXJC4, so you need to use substr to cut out the slash.