preg_match inside repeater

• irvinph

• March 6, 2020 at 12:51 pm

<?php if( have_rows('video') ): ?>
	<?php while ( have_rows('video') ) : the_row(); ?>
		<?php
		$url = get_sub_field('youtube_url');
		preg_match('%(?:youtube(?:-nocookie)?\.com/(?:[^/]+/.+/|(?:v|e(?:mbed)?)/|.*[?&]v=)|youtu\.be/)([^"&?/ ]{11})%i', $url, $match);
		?>
		<?php echo $youtube_id = $match[1]; ?>
    <?php endwhile; else : ?>
<?php endif; ?>

Can someone help me please what am I missing here?

preg_match works if non repeater…

• John Huebner

• March 8, 2020 at 3:48 am

I think it should be something like

if (preg_match('%(?:youtube(?:-nocookie)?\.com/(?:[^/]+/.+/|(?:v|e(?:mbed)?)/|.*[?&]v=)|youtu\.be/)([^"&?/ ]{11})%i', $url, $match)) {
  echo $match[1];
}

Unless you are just trying to get the id then it should be something like

if (preg_match('%(?:youtube(?:-nocookie)?\.com/(?:[^/]+/.+/|(?:v|e(?:mbed)?)/|.*[?&]v=)|youtu\.be/)([^"&?/ ]{11})%i', $url, $match)) {
   $youtube_id = $match[1];
}

but you should not be echoing and setting the value at the same time, this will likely just output true no matter what happens in the match echo $youtube_id = $match[1];

• irvinph

• March 9, 2020 at 10:28 am

Massive Thanks John.. it works perfectly. Cheers.