Quick input form help.

Hey everyone, I have a simple problem that needs a solution. I have an input field where the user would enter a youtube link like so:

I need some type of JavaScript or PHP code to simply remove the:

so all you have is the code to the video.

Hopefully that makes since Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!

$url = 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG7RJZUwR6Q';
if(preg_match('#http://(?:www\.)?youtube[\.a-z]{1,6}/watch.*[\?&]v=([^\?&/]{11})#i', $url, $match)) {
    echo $match[1]; // $match[1] is your video id
} else {
    echo 'Not a valid youtube url dude!';
}

var url = 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG7RJZUwR6Q',
    match = url.match(/http:\/\/(?:www\.)?youtube[\.a-z]{1,6}\/watch.*[\?&]v=([^\?&\/]{11})/i);

if(match) {
    alert(match[1]);
} else {
    alert('Not a valid youtube url dude!');
}

Reaper-Media said
PHP :

function retreiveYoutubeCode($url){
    return return preg_replace('/http\:\/\/[w,\.]*youtube\.[a-z]*\/watch[\/]*\?v\=(a-z0-9)*/i','$1',$url);        
}
echo retreiveYoutubeCode('http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG7RJZUwR6Q');

This doesn’t take into account other get variables, i’ll take a look at this now

Haha you beat me to it Sam!

Okay so hopefully this isn’t too stupid of a question to ask… but how do I get this to work with the input value? My form action would be submit.php and I have it looking like so:

<?

$search = ($_POST['search']);

if(preg_match('#http://(?:www\.)?youtube[\.a-z]{1,6}/watch.*[\?&]v=([^\?&/]{11})#i', $search, $match)) {
    echo $match[1]; // $match[1] is your video id
} else {
    echo 'Not a valid youtube url dude!';
}
?>

What am I doing wrong?

And both solutions are great! Thanks!

$search = $_POST['search'];

Still not working. Always getting the error message

webdesigndeluxe said
Still not working. Always getting the error message

What does the error message say?

theninja said

webdesigndeluxe said
Still not working. Always getting the error message

What does the error message say?

It was your error message. But no worries it works now. My dumb mistake. Never put method=”post” in the form