Monday, July 11, 2011

Youtube video thumbnail using php

Youtube video thumbnail using php



php function to convert youtube url to video id


function getYouTubeIdFromURL($url)
{
$url_string = parse_url($url, PHP_URL_QUERY);
parse_str($url_string, $args);
return isset($args['v']) ? $args['v'] : false;
}


Calling the above function

$youtube_id = getYouTubeIdFromURL("http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OoC8ycuCo0&feature=topvideos_sports");



echo $youtube_id."<br/>";

echo "http://img.youtube.com/vi/".$youtube_id."/0/.jpg"; */



The javascript version of the above code can be found in this blog

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