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- Nov 14, 2012
The youtube and youtube player tags require the ID of the video. Not the URL, not everything after the /, just what "v" equals.
When you submit a URL sometimes the website will display different information based on the value of certain values passed through the URL bar. These are called $_GET arguments. The $_GET argument for a youtube video is v.
Lets look at this URL:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsBwfWLXu5k&list=PLB72A6607F9CC1653&index=1
There are several parts.
http:// is the protocol.
www.youtube.com is the sub-domain, domain name, and top-level domain.
/watch is the requested webpage.
? indicates the start of variable argument list.
& indicates the start of another argument.
The parameters of this URL are:
v = ZsBwfWLXu5k
list = PLB72A6607F9CC1653
index = 1
This tells youtube we are watching a video in a playlist and the playlist is playing the first video (index=1).
None of that matters. Pasting all of that into [youtube] causes it to break. All we want it v.
?v=VIDEOID
?v=VIDEOID&someshit=somecrap
The information we want is VIDEOID, nothing else. In the URL I gave, the video ID is ZsBwfWLXu5k.
[youtube]ZsBwfWLXu5k[/youtube]
When you submit a URL sometimes the website will display different information based on the value of certain values passed through the URL bar. These are called $_GET arguments. The $_GET argument for a youtube video is v.
Lets look at this URL:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsBwfWLXu5k&list=PLB72A6607F9CC1653&index=1
There are several parts.
http:// is the protocol.
www.youtube.com is the sub-domain, domain name, and top-level domain.
/watch is the requested webpage.
? indicates the start of variable argument list.
& indicates the start of another argument.
The parameters of this URL are:
v = ZsBwfWLXu5k
list = PLB72A6607F9CC1653
index = 1
This tells youtube we are watching a video in a playlist and the playlist is playing the first video (index=1).
None of that matters. Pasting all of that into [youtube] causes it to break. All we want it v.
?v=VIDEOID
?v=VIDEOID&someshit=somecrap
The information we want is VIDEOID, nothing else. In the URL I gave, the video ID is ZsBwfWLXu5k.
[youtube]ZsBwfWLXu5k[/youtube]
