Question

I’ve noticed that some of my users post YouTube links that have a trailing

#!

For example

http://youtu.be/VYh9cmCOL5w#!

However my current regex does not remove the #! which is causing a host of problems in the video thumbnails.

preg_match("#(?<=v=)[a-zA-Z0-9-]+(?=&)|(?<=v\/)[^&\n]+|(?<=v=)[^&\n]+|(?<=youtu.be/)[^&\n]+#", $url, $match);

Anyone have a suggestions on how to modify my current code to ignore the #! ?

Answer 1

You could just use rtrim():

$url = rtrim($url, '#!');