regex nightmare: anyone want to check it?

**borked** · 09-15-2009, 07:41 AM

well, the simplest is to optionally allow each component:

(http:\/\/)?(www\.)?(youtube\.com)?(\/)?(watch\?)?(v=)?([a-zA-Z0-9]{11})

but then this means that any optional component can be left out eg:
http://v=L1BDM1oBRJ8

is valid.

**BestXXXPorn** · 09-15-2009, 07:42 AM

That should work, it might be a little overkill with all the valid character checking though :P

You could also:

$arr = explode('=', $youTubeURL);

and validate just the portion you want:

$linkCode = $arr[count($arr)-1];

While that wouldn't work with the last case you posted you could just do a:

$youTubeUrl = str_replace('/', '=', $youTubeUrl);

before hand since you don't care what the domain is anyway... It would definitely be much faster than using regex, parsing wise :P

**BestXXXPorn** · 09-15-2009, 07:51 AM

Running benchmarks on regex (using borked's simplified regex) vs explode (since we're trying to strip the actual value for v...

I show explode method as twice as fast as regex ;)

regex nightmare: anyone want to check it?

regex nightmare: anyone want to check it?

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