I create my own forum where you can use different types of BBcode, and one of them is [youtube] [/ youtube] for embedding youtube videos,
The idea is to make it idiotic, the user can enter a full long URL or just code for a video like this
[youtube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ3_kndmeCg[/youtube]
[youtube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ3_kndmeCg&feature=related[/youtube] [youtube] AJ3_kndmeCg [/ youtube]
Here is my code that outputs the code from the full long url,
<?php
$getpost=$_POST['post'];
$getpost=preg_replace("'\[youtube\].*?=(.*?)&.*?\[/youtube\]'is",'yt link is \\1',$getpost);
$getpost=preg_replace("'\[youtube\].*?=(.*?)\[/youtube\]'is",'yt link is \\1',$getpost);
$getpost=preg_replace("'\[youtube\](.*?)\[/youtube\]'is",'yt link is \\1',$getpost);
?>
Results:
Link yt - AJ3_kndmeCg
Link yt - AJ3_kndmeCg
yt - AJ3_kndmeCg
It works great if I only want to embed 3 YouTube videos,
6 youtube :
[youtube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ3_kndmeCg[/youtube][youtube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ3_kndmeCg&feature=related[/youtube] [youtube] AJ3_kndmeCg [/youtube]
[youtube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ3_kndmeCg[/youtube][youtube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ3_kndmeCg&feature=related[/youtube][YouTube] AJ3_kndmeCg [/YouTube]
:
yt - AJ3_kndmeCg
yt AJ3_kndmeCg [/youtube]
yt - AJ3_kndmeCg
yt link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ3_kndmeCg
[youtube] AJ3_kndmeCg
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