I am using the default WordPress embed to embed a couple of videos in the content.
I want to extract the video link from [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9QbYZh1YXY[/embed], can anyone help with the regex?
No need to use regex. WordPress has a handy function to strip shortcodes from a string.
Use strip_shortcodes( $content ).
So in your case,
$content = "[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9QbYZh1YXY[/embed]";
$your_clean _url = strip_shortcodes( $content );
echo $your_clean_url; // should output https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9QbYZh1YXY
EDIT
Here's a function (tested) that will remove your "unwanted" shortcode, and any other one.
function remove_unwanted_shortcode($shortcode, $content) {
$start = "[" . $shortcode . "]";
$stop = "[/" . $shortcode . "]";
$cleanFirst = str_ireplace($start, '', $content);
$cleanSecond = str_ireplace($stop, '', $cleanFirst);
return $cleanSecond;
}
And you would use it like so:
$content = "[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9QbYZh1YXY[/embed]";
$short = "embed";
echo remove_unwanted_shortcode($shortcode, $content);
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1Than you so much @samuel-asor... That's clean and does the job very nicely. I owe you one. – user23355 Sep 27 '17 at 4:56
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if only want to display your video link you can put the link like
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9QbYZh1YXY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9QbYZh1YXY</a>
(it will display your link like hyperlink )
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This is not what I mean. I have
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9QbYZh1YXY[/embed]when I get$content = get_the_content(). I want to remove those tags and only get the URL – user23355 Sep 26 '17 at 10:44
if ( has_post_format( 'video' ) ) { $video_content = get_the_content(); }and the ouput is[embed]https://youtube.com/sfsdfsf[/embed]– user23355 Sep 26 '17 at 13:54