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Get YouTube Video ID [Very robust]

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This will get the 11-character YouTube video ID from any valid YouTube URL.

Based on http://snipplr.com/view/57065/get-youtube-video-id/ but made more robust to handle additional URL inputs

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  1. /**
  2.  * Get 11-character YouTube video ID from a URL
  3.  *
  4.  * @param string $url URL to video
  5.  * @return string|false False on invalid URL, 11 character string on success
  6.  */
  7. function getYouTubeId($url) {
  8. 	// Format all domains to http://domain for easier URL parsing
  9. 	str_replace('https://', 'http://', $url);
  10. 	if (!stristr($url, 'http://') && (strlen($url) != 11)) {
  11. 		$url = 'http://' . $url;
  12. 	}
  13. 	$url = str_replace('http://www.', 'http://', $url);
  14.  
  15. 	if (strlen($url) == 11) {
  16. 		$code = $url;
  17. 	} else if (preg_match('/http:\/\/youtu.be/', $url)) {
  18. 		$url = parse_url($url, PHP_URL_PATH);
  19. 		$code = substr($url, 1, 11);
  20. 	} else if (preg_match('/watch/', $url)) {
  21. 		$arr = parse_url($url);
  22. 		parse_str($url);
  23. 		$code = isset($v) ? substr($v, 0, 11) : false;
  24. 	} else if (preg_match('/http:\/\/youtube.com\/v/', $url)) {
  25. 		$url = parse_url($url, PHP_URL_PATH);
  26. 		$code = substr($url, 3, 11);
  27. 	} else if (preg_match('/http:\/\/youtube.com\/embed/', $url, $matches)) {
  28. 		$url = parse_url($url, PHP_URL_PATH);
  29. 		$code = substr($url, 7, 11);
  30. 	} else if (preg_match("#(?<=v=)[a-zA-Z0-9-]+(?=&)|(?<=[0-9]/)[^&\n]+|(?<=v=)[^&\n]+#", $url, $matches) ) {
  31. 		$code = substr($matches[0], 0, 11);
  32. 	} else {
  33. 		$code = false;
  34. 	}
  35.  
  36. 	if ($code && (strlen($code) < 11)) {
  37. 		$code = false;
  38. 	}
  39.  
  40. 	return $code;
  41. }

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