Google Youtube API

[bolton]

Hi all

I need to display some videos in a customised way using Yutube’s API. Should I use js to do this or php?

Are there any pros in using one over the other?

Thanks

[m_hutley]

Define ‘customized way’. Specifically, does the customization need to change on the fly (during the same pageload)?

[bolton]

I need to display a video based on a variable passed into the url. I also want to disable the video player controls.

So nothing too complicated. Ive written some js which handles most of what I want to do, but I wonder whether I should do it in php so the js is hidden from the user.

I suppose having the code hidden from the user is one benefit of using php instead of js.

[m_hutley]

@bolton

but I wonder whether I should do it in php so the js is hidden from the user.

I’m… almost 100% sure that even if you do it in PHP, it will be visible to the user.

[m3g4p0p]

@bolton

I need to display a video based on a variable passed into the url. I also want to disable the video player controls.

Hi @bolton, you can actually disable controls by just passing ?controls=0 to the iframe URL… no JS needed so far:

<iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/i0SXNBTF1HA?controls=0"></iframe>

And with dynamic video ID from the query string:

<iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/<?= $_GET['youtube-id'] ?>?controls=0"></iframe>

[bolton]

Hmm. Ive been fiddling about with Youtube API PHP. Ive now managed to get it to output json, which is good. But how do I now display that in html to the user?
Thanks