Question

what is wrong to this code?

header('Content-type: application/x-shockwave-flash');
$video_id = $_REQUEST['id'];
$content = readfile("http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=$video_id");
echo $content;

Why this code is not working? How should look the code?

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i’ve edited like this:

header('Content-type: application/x-shockwave-flash');
$video_id = $_REQUEST['id'];
$content = readfile("http://www.youtube.com/v/$video_id");
echo $content;

and if i get http://localhost/media.php?id=pkyRRD9f0ts in browser it works but if i add it in jwplayer it doesn’t work 🙁

Answer 1

That’s because you’re pulling the entire webpage as you would view it in a browser, not just the video file (youtube specifically doesn’t allow that).

Try echoing an embed html tag instead.

echo <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=$video_id">;