want to get the image from youtube embed code (new and old) and from youtube video url this function will help you ,
function video_image($youtube_code)
{
// get the video code if this is an embed code (old embed)
preg_match('/youtube\.com\/v\/([\w\-]+)/', $youtube_code, $match);
// if old embed returned an empty ID, try capuring the ID from the new iframe embed
if($match[1] == '')
preg_match('/youtube\.com\/embed\/([\w\-]+)/', $youtube_code, $match);
// if it is not an embed code, get the video code from the youtube URL
if($match[1] == '')
preg_match('/v\=(.+)&/',$youtube_code ,$match);
if($match[1] == '')
preg_match('/v\=(.+)/',$youtube_code ,$match);
// get the corresponding thumbnail images
$full_size_thumbnail_image['small'] = "http://img.youtube.com/vi/".$match[1]."/0.jpg";
$full_size_thumbnail_image['large'] = "http://img.youtube.com/vi/".$match[1]."/1.jpg";
$full_size_thumbnail_image['medium'] = "http://img.youtube.com/vi/".$match[1]."/2.jpg";
$full_size_thumbnail_image['smallmedium'] = "http://img.youtube.com/vi/".$match[1]."/3.jpg";
// return whichever thumbnail image you would like to retrieve
return $full_size_thumbnail_image;
}
print_r(video_image('youtube embed code, url wil come here'));
?>
