Grab the video ID from YouTube URL?

Question

Say I have a list of IDs like so:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMU0tzLwhbE
http://youtu.be/KMU0tzLwhbE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMU0tzLwhbE&featured=         


        

Answer 1

Try something like:

$pattern = '/(?:(?:\?|&)v=|\/)([A-Za-z0-9]{11})/';
$url     = 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMU0tzLwhbE';

preg_match($pattern, $url, $matches);

echo $matches[1];