Question

So I’ve been using this simple method to determine whether or not a URL is from vimeo

if (preg_match("/vimeo/",$url)) {
$getvim = (parse_url($url));
$vimid = str_replace("/", "", $getvim['path']);
}

As you can see this simply determines if the url contains “vimeo” then grabs the video id by grabbing everything after the slash. Works fine if you’re actually linking a vimeo video, however utterly messes everything up if the link just contains “vimeo” without actually being a vimeo link.

Does anyone have a better method of doing this? There are tons of YouTube solutions available but finding a good vimeo one has been nearly impossible. Any help with this is appreciated, thank you.

Answer 1

Try this code:

$urls = parse_url($url);
if ($urls['host'] == 'vimeo.com'){
    $vimid = ltrim($urls['path'], '/');
    if (is_numeric($vimid)) {
        // do something with $vimid
    }
}

We assume that all video IDs are numerical.