Retrieve the video ID

Question

I am trying to retrieve a video ID from a link, but the returned result is NULL:

$myurl = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aSJ2nRUcTk&list=PLIaLMmGmfJ03L5A1Xoyxa_034xxSurqrO";

preg_match('/?v=(.*)&(index|list)/', $myurl, $match);

var_dump($match);

I am looking for this video ID: -aSJ2nRUcTk

Thanks in advance

Never heard about these functions, let's say it is not a URL and I would to use preg_match — Oum Alaa, Oct 29 '15 at 00:19
PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '[' in /home/sitecom/www/details.php on line 10 — Oum Alaa, Oct 29 '15 at 07:10

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 29 '15 at 00:16

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You could do it without regex via exploding on the ? (or doing a substring or other method to get only what's after the ?) and parsing the query string into an array with parse_str

http://php.net/manual/en/function.parse-str.php

$str = end(explode("?","https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aSJ2nRUcTk&list=PLIaLMmGmfJ03L5A1Xoyxa_034xxSurqrO"));
$params = parse_str($str);
echo $params['v'];
// will echo -aSJ2nRUcTk

answered Oct 29 '15 at 00:16

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Thanks dude, if I would like to use preg_match, how can I proceed that? – Oum Alaa Oct 29 '15 at 00:50

Retrieve the video ID

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