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PHP: Converting YouTube and Vimeo Links To YouTube Player and Vimeo Player

Here is a simple function that will do this for you:

function convert_videos($string) {
	$rules = array(
		'#http://(www\.)?youtube\.com/watch\?v=([^ &\n]+)(&.*?(\n|\s))?#i' => '<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/$2"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/$2" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>',
 
		'#http://(www\.)?vimeo\.com/([^ ?\n/]+)((\?|/).*?(\n|\s))?#i' => '<object width="400" height="300"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=$2&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=$2&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object>'
	);
 
	foreach ($rules as $link => $player)
		$string = preg_replace($link, $player, $string);
 
	return $string;
}

Use it simply like this:

echo convert_videos($the_string_that_might_contain_the_link);

I hope this helps someone

Filed under: PHP,Web Development Posted by: Hamid

10 Comments »

afadis:

Do you have similar function for Vimeo too?

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afadis:

Thank you for the Vimeo update

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Qualitypro:

Thank you for your function….works very well

1 small issue is “&feature=youtube_gdata” shows up underneath player…how could I strip this for cleaner appearance?

Thanks again!

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Codehead:

Qualitypro, can you please post the string (or at least the part with the YouTube URL) here so I can test it and fix this function?

Thanks!

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Benj:

Simple and awesome. Was about to write something similar but thought I’d check first to see if it had been well done, and it has

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Codehead:

Benj: I think a good programmer always does what you did, this way you can focus on more high level stuff…

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Robert:

Really nice!

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Rimas:

I have the same problem like Qualitypro.
How to remove the rest part of the link after v=wT-4nESh-4Y?
For example the link is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT-4nESh-4Y&feature=relmfu

after converting i still have the end &feature=relmfu
<iframe width=”470″ height=”300″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/wT-4nESh-4Y” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe>&feature=relmfu

Would be great if you could fix that.
Thanks in advance.

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rabi:

thanks for this script

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victorm:

I did a little modification to the youtube regex so it solves the “other params” issue

function convert_videos($string) {
$rules = array(
‘#http://(www\.)?youtube\.com/watch\?v=([^ &\n]+)(&.*?(\n|\s))?.+#i’ => ”,

‘#http://(www\.)?vimeo\.com/([^ ?\n/]+)((\?|/).*?(\n|\s))?#i’ => ”
);

foreach ($rules as $link => $player)
$string = preg_replace($link, $player, $string);

return $string;
}

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