Displaying random YouTube videos ...

[AshleyQuick]

Can someone assist with a code snippet that will randomly display YouTube videos using their embed code?

 

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/bYI_aOyCn9Y" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

 

 

I'd like to cycle through 3-4 videos.

 

[Guber-X]

are you looking for it to random on page load or randomize after time period?

 

ps. my assumption is that you are looking for a php snippet to do this?

Edited September 15, 2013 by Guber-X

[AshleyQuick]

Random on page load. And yep, a php snippet. I found something similar here:

 

		<?php			$content = array(			    'http://www.address1.com|image1|Caption 1',			    'http://www.address2.com|image2|Caption 2',			    'http://www.address3.com|image3|Caption 3',			    'http://www.address4.com|image4|Caption 4'			);			shuffle($content);			foreach ($content as $value)			{			    $explode = explode('|', $value);			    echo '<p><a href="' . $explode[0] . '"><img src="/misc/php/shuffle/' . $explode[1] . '.gif" border="0" width="100" height="25" align="absmiddle"></a>  <a href="' . $explode[0] . '">' . $explode[2] . '</a></p>';			}			?>

  But I couldn't get that to work with the YouTube code.

[priyankagound]

Try out with this one...

 

<?php 

$file = "path/to/text/file.txt"; 

$data = file($file); 
$line = trim($data[rand(0,count($data))]); 
echo '<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v='.$line.'"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v='.$line.'" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>'; 

?>

[AshleyQuick]

That could work but is it possible to have everything contained in the script (without the external text file)? I'm using this in Wordpress so I'd like to edit in one place only.