How to embed YouTube videos in PHP?

Question

Can anyone give me an idea how can we show or embed a YouTube video if we just have the URL or the Embed code?

Answer 1

If you want to upload videos programatically, check the YouTube Data API for PHP

Answer 2

You have to ask users to store the 11 character code from the youtube video.

For e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahg6qcgoay4

The eleven character code is : Ahg6qcgoay4

You then take this code and place it in your database. Then wherever you want to place the youtube video in your page, load the character from the database and put the following code:-

e.g. for Ahg6qcgoay4 it will be :

<object width="425" height="350" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ahg6qcgoay4" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ahg6qcgoay4" /></object>

Answer 3

From both long and short youtube urls you can get the embed this way:

$ytarray=explode("/", $videolink);
$ytendstring=end($ytarray);
$ytendarray=explode("?v=", $ytendstring);
$ytendstring=end($ytendarray);
$ytendarray=explode("&", $ytendstring);
$ytcode=$ytendarray[0];
echo "<iframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/$ytcode\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen></iframe>";

Hope it helps someone

Answer 4

You can simply create a php input form for Varchar date,give it a varchar length of lets say 300. Then ask the users to copy and paste the Embed code.When you view the records, you will view the streamed video.

Answer 5

Just a small update to Alec Smart's answer: since AS2 is deprecated now, the '?version=3' is required to get his example to work. See the Youtube reference at YouTube Embedded Players and Player Parameters under "Selecting content to play" for details.

In other words:

<object width="425" height="350" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ahg6qcgoay4?version=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ahg6qcgoay4?version=3" /></object>

Apparently, the Youtube reference above does this as follows (the inner embed presumably used as a fallback for browsers that don't yet support the object tag):

<object width="640" height="390">
  <param name="movie"
         value="https://www.youtube.com/v/u1zgFlCw8Aw?version=3&autoplay=1"></param>
  <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param>
  <embed src="https://www.youtube.com/v/u1zgFlCw8Aw?version=3&autoplay=1"
         type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
         allowscriptaccess="always"
         width="640" height="390"></embed>
</object>

Or using iframes (replace http://example.com with your site's domain):

<iframe id="ytplayer" type="text/html" width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/u1zgFlCw8Aw?autoplay=1&origin=http://example.com" frameborder="0"/>

Answer 6

Here is some code I've wrote to automatically turn URL's into links and automatically embed any video urls from youtube. I made it for a chat room I'm working on and it works pretty well. I'm sure it will work just fine for any other purpose as well like a blog for instance.

All you have to do is call the function "autolink()" and pass it the string to be parsed.

For example include the function below and then echo this code.

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echo '<div id="chat_message">'.autolink($string).'</div>';

/****************Function to include****************/

<?php

function autolink($string){
    // force http: on www.
    $string = str_ireplace( "www.", "http://www.", $string );
    // eliminate duplicates after force
    $string = str_ireplace( "http://http://www.", "http://www.", $string );
    $string = str_ireplace( "https://http://www.", "https://www.", $string );

    // The Regular Expression filter
    $reg_exUrl = "/(http|https|ftp|ftps)\:\/\/[a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,3}(\/\S*)?/";
    // Check if there is a url in the text

$m = preg_match_all($reg_exUrl, $string, $match); 

if ($m) { 
$links=$match[0]; 
for ($j=0;$j<$m;$j++) { 

    if(substr($links[$j], 0, 18) == 'http://www.youtube'){

    $string=str_replace($links[$j],'<a href="'.$links[$j].'" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">'.$links[$j].'</a>',$string).'<br /><iframe title="YouTube video player" class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="320" height="185" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/'.substr($links[$j], -11).'" frameborder="0" allowFullScreen></iframe><br />';


    }else{

    $string=str_replace($links[$j],'<a href="'.$links[$j].'" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">'.$links[$j].'</a>',$string);

        } 

    } 
} 




               return ($string);
 }

?>

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