Youtube I.D parsing for new URL formats

Question

This question has been asked before and I found this:

Reg exp for youtube link

but I\'m looking for something slightly different.

I need to match th

Answer 1

Currently I'm using this:

function _getYoutubeVideoId($url)
{
  $parts = parse_url($url);

  //For seriously malformed urls
  if ($parts === false) {
     return false;
  }

  switch ($parts['host']) {
     case 'youtu.be':
        return substr($parts['path'], 1);
        break;
     case 'youtube.com':
     case 'www.youtube.com':
        parse_str($parts['query'], $params);
        return $params['v'];
        break;
     default:
        return false;
        break;
  } 
}

It could be extended, but right now it works for most of the cases