Video embed code and mysql

PHP
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I’m putting together a small site that will allow users to embed youtube and vimeo videos, similar to what Tumblr does. They allow the URL and/or the embed code to be pasted into a textarea and then submitted.

I’m curious if anybody has any thoughts on how to do this? Would it just be a series of regex filters, stripping out the code until you get to the video’s ID and then INSERTing only that, plus a flag saying which video site it belongs to?

Or would you allow the full embed code? Sure, I will use mysql_real_escape_string(), but that doesn’t strip out some smartass inserting javascript or PHP from the embed code.

Then again, if they paste the wrong code, it’s their fault the video won’t work, isn’t it? :wink:

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Yes, our dating applications allow members to embed youtube and other codes. So we have to parse the codes and also retrieve the thumbnail and id from the codes.

If you want the unique id, you have to strip out the codes. Just write it in php or ASP. Use substr for php and instr for asp.

If you want to store the code, use text. If it’s less than 255 chars, just use varchar.

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mysql text field. nuff said.

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Am I misunderstanding? What does that have to do with my question?