How can i make URL clickable and get youtube code from it

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I am getting a string from database and echo it with php. There is a youtube link in this string and after i echo it i want it to be clickable. Also i want to get the youtube code which is at the end of the link. How can i make it?

Example text: This video is very interesting. Watch it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkLTxsAhURw. I loved it!

Thank you.

You can put the youtube link in the href attribute of the tag and place the tag inside the tag — Techy, Jul 21 '14 at 08:07
Try this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4390556/extract-url-from-string to extract the URL. Then wrap it with `` like any other hyperlink — Mark Miller, Jul 21 '14 at 08:15

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 21 '14 at 08:08

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Instead of echoing just the text you can echo:

<a href=".$row['YOUTUBELINK'].">".$row['YOUTUBELINK']."</a>.

This will produce a clickable link. It's hard to help you without code though.

answered Jul 21 '14 at 08:08

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Thanks, but i want it to be like the example above. The actual link must be clickable. I dont know how to make php understand that its a link when it get the whole text from database. – Engin Erdoğan Jul 21 '14 at 08:10

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 21 '14 at 08:23

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You can get youtube code from youtube link using following script.

$youtube_link  = 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkLTxsAhURw';
$youtube_code = substr($youtube_link, strpos($youtube_link, "=") + 1);
echo $youtube_code;

answered Jul 21 '14 at 08:23

Talk2Nit

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