[SOLVED] Stripping a Part of the URL

[.Darkman]

Hello Everybody,

 

I am planning to make a site where users can enter a video's url (youtube and such) and the video will be embedded into our site.

 

So i need to know how to strip a part of the url.

 

For eg,

A Youtube's url is  :

 

And the embed code is :

<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hdf4GeT4ELA"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hdf4GeT4ELA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>

'

 

I want to separate hdf4GeT4ELA from the URL so that i can use it in the Embed code.

How shall i do is irrespective of whether it is

or

 

That may be pretty simpler.

There is another site called "Grouper" which i am going to allow.

 

Video Url is http://grouper.com/video/MediaDetails.aspx?id=1820852&ml=fpl%3d38714%26fx%3d

 

And the Embed code is

<embed allowScriptAccess="never" allowFullScreen="true"  src="http://grouper.com/mtg/mtgPlayer.swf?v=1.7" width="400" 

height="325" quality="high" scale="noScale" 

FlashVars="ap=0&mu=0&rf=-1&vfver=8&extid=-1&extsite=-1&id=1820852&ml=fpl%3d38714%26fx%3d" 

wmode="window" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" 

type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed>

 

How do i remove 1820852 and fpl%3d38714%26fx%3d from this URL.

 

 

Thanks a lot for any help.

[Guest prozente]

On the parse_str page it explains one of the many ways to do this

 

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.parse-str.php

 

 

[rcorlew]

$queryString = $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];

 

Will set everything after the question mark.

 

You can display it like this:

 

http://grouper.com/video/MediaDetails.aspx?$querystring

 

I don't really understand what you are trying to do, but that is the path you need to be headed down.

[.Darkman]

I don't really understand what you are trying to do

 

What i want to do is that when a user enter the url in a field and hit submit button, i want the Embed code to be saved in the database.

 

 

[Guest prozente]

You could retrieve the page then use a regular expression to get the code, but this is against youtubes Terms of Use

[HaLo2FrEeEk]

Get the url, then use a regex to parse the code out of the url like so:

 

$url = "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdf4GeT4ELA";
$url .= "END"; // This is so you can end the regexp efficiently
preg_match("|v=(.+?)END|", $url, $match);
$code = $match[1];

[.Darkman]

Thanks to everyone who replied.

 

I have figured it out.

 

I separate the Query part using parse_url and then use parse_str to separate the values.

 

 

 

Thanks,