preg match confusion??

[ohdang888]

Alright, i want to take a url like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVWvCJcse8w&feature=youtube_gdata

 

and just get the ID of the video ( value of v)

 

I've tried preg match, but i'm terrible figuring out the way those combination of letters are supposed to go.

 

How would it go?

 

Thanks.

[rajivgonsalves]

you could do it in a simpler way

 

<?php
$str = 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVWvCJcse8w&feature=youtube_gdata';
$query = array();
$parts = parse_url($str);
parse_str($parts['query'], $query);

print_r($query);
?>

[cags]

Something like this should work...

 

'#v=([a-z0-9]+)i'

 

There's likely other tweaks that can be done, but that should work.