Get YouTube video title in PHP

Question

In one of my applications I am saving a YouTube video\'s id... Like "A4fR3sDprOE". I have to display its title in the application. I got the following code for getting

Answer 1

It's not safe to use file_get_contents() with remote URLs. Use cURL instead with YouTube API 2.0:

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/' . $video_id);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

if ($response) {
    $xml   = new SimpleXMLElement($response);
    $title = (string) $xml->title;
} else {
    // Error handling.
}