Question

Since I’m not much of a php guy I need help with creating an array that holds YouTube videos and a description for each video.

Right now I have an array that only holds the video id’s. What is the best way to add a Description to each ID so I can easily loop through the array and create the desired output underneath.

<?php
    $vids = array(
        "OOWvNbU6ciLg",
        "5itTJabAJfps",
        "jFA8Tesmames",
        "Trz9Y01xx1TY",
        "mMQGcIrlyseU",
        "qGrlQNvqqL14",
        "QymnLbSpJ7lA",
        "jFAh8Tesmmes",
        "5itTJtbAJfps",
        "OOWvNpU6ciLg"
    );
?>

What I want eventually is a list of videos with a video description underneath. And I want my array to be shuffled before the list is created so I have a different order each time the list is created.

HTML

<li class="video">
    <figure>
        <iframe width="100%" height="200px" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/OxXAT2epfEYA?HD=1;rel=0;showinfo=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
        <figcaption>Description of the video</figcaption>
    </figugre>
</li>

What would be the best way to define the array so I can shuffle it and then loop through the array and print each <li> item with the iframe embed code and the description underneath.

Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

Keep all info about video in associative array:

$single_video = array(
    "id" => "OOWvNbU6ciLg",
    "description" => "Video descr"
);

Now build an array of these videos:

$vids = array(
    array(
        "id" => "OOWvNbU6ciLg",
        "description" => "Video descr"
    ),
    array(
        "id" => "5itTJabAJfps",
        "description" => "Other video descr"
    ),
);

Now you can shuffle it easily, and loop:

$vids = array();
shuffle($vids);
foreach($vids as $video){
    //$video here is associative array with single video
    echo "{$video['id']} - {$video['description']}";
}