Using SimpleXml to retrive only a part of an attribute's content: YouTube Video ID

Question

Below is a line from an XML feed ( YouTube API 2.1 ):

<media:player url='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksrHwD9cZjQ&amp;feature=youtube_gdata_player'/>

How can I use PHP ( SimpleXml ) to retrieve only the video ID which is in our case ksrHwD9cZjQ located between ?v= and & ?

I used $url = (string)$media->group->player->attributes()->url; but it retrieves the entire URL.

Regards,

Thank you !

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 19 '15 at 15:47

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You can further process the url by using parse_str to get the video ID in the url:

$query_string = parse_url($url, PHP_URL_QUERY); // decode `&amp;` to `&`
parse_str($query_string, $data);
echo $data['v']; // ksrHwD9cZjQ

edited Apr 19 '15 at 15:47

hakre

answered Apr 17 '15 at 14:05

Kevin

Thanks for the code, and the edit to decode, it wouldn't work without it. Appreciated, have a nice day ! – Ismail Apr 17 '15 at 14:22

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