How to change "Video site link" to "Video embed link" using Laravel

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I'm building a social network site with Laravel

I have a section of my site where a user can submit a URL to a video with a form ex. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxxxxxxxxx

The URL gets saved in the database.

I want to embed the youtube/vimeo player on the page using an iframe.

I can grab the url using $video->url

In order to display the iframe I use

<iframe width="306" height="200" src={{ $video->url }} frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

The space is there but no video. Just blank space. I figure this is because the link is not the embed link youtube provides which should be //www.youtube.com/embed/xxxxxxxxxx

Is there a Laravel way to convert site URLs to embed URLs? I don't want to make my users submit the embed URL since most people don't know about it and it's easier for them to just submit the URL in their browser

Hmm now i get an error saying No query result for model (User model)... strange. I'll have to look more into this error — xslibx, Jan 25 '15 at 21:56
I made a mistake. check again with url property. `{{ $video->url + "&output=embed" }}` — Mohebifar, Jan 25 '15 at 22:02
ah yes, good point. I no longer get an error, but I still get a blank space. no video — xslibx, Jan 25 '15 at 22:12

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:26

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You can grab the id of youtube video before saving the url to the database.

Then store the embed link:

"http://www.youtube.com/embed/$youtube_id"

edited May 23 '17 at 10:26

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answered Jan 25 '15 at 22:42

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How to change "Video site link" to "Video embed link" using Laravel

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