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Revision: 29913
at August 25, 2010 07:05 by Jamie
Updated Code 
/**
 * Creates a YouTube thumbnail URL from a YouTube video URL
 */
function youtube_video_thumbnail($url,$index=0){
    if(preg_match('/^[^v]+v.(.{11}).*/',$url,$matches)){
        return 'http://img.youtube.com/vi/'.$matches[1].'/'.$index.'.jpg';
    }elseif(preg_match('/youtube.com\/user\/(.*)\/(.*)$/',$url,$matches)){
        return 'http://img.youtube.com/vi/'.$matches[2].'/'.$index.'.jpg';
    }else{
        return false;
    }
}

Revision: 29912
at August 6, 2010 02:18 by Jamie
Updated Code 
/**
 * Creates a Yoututbe thumbnial URL from a YouTube video URL
 */
function youtube_video_thumbnail($url){
    if(preg_match('/^[^v]+v.(.{11}).*/',$url,$matches)){
        return 'http://img.youtube.com/vi/'.$matches[1].'/0.jpg';
    }else{
        return false;
    }
}

Revision: 29911
at August 5, 2010 03:09 by Jamie
Initial Code 
/^[^v]+v.(.{11}).*/
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I\'ve added an additional case to handle videos linked from a user\'s channel.









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Youtube Video ID Regex & PHP Function









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regex, php, video









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PHP