If you want to get the FLV file of any youtube video url using php code, here is the solution.

If you are a PHP Programmer and if you are working with any video website, and if you need to grab videos (FLV files) from youtube and to put it yourown site (not object embedding) , Download the Full Source Code given at the end of this article (ZIP)

I used this php code for the Youtube video download tool http://www.googleneedle.com

Here function getPatternFromUrl is nothing but, get the exact pattern of a particular video from any youtube video url format.

In the above case , it returns pzmP4UvZRa4

The function is below

function getPatternFromUrl($url)

 {

$url = $url.'&';

$pattern = '/v=(.+?)&+/';

preg_match($pattern, $url, $matches);

return ($matches[1]);

}

GetFlvFromYoutube is the main function here, which download the flv file from youtube pattern and saves to your local machine.
The function is below:

function GrabFlvFromYoutube( $pattern )
{

 require_once ("phptube.php");

 $tube = new PHPTube ();

 $flv_http_path = $tube->download($pattern) ;

 echo $flv_http_path;

 set_time_limit(0);

 $data = file_get_contents($flv_http_path);

 $new_flv_path = dirname(_FILE_).'/flvs/'.$pattern.'.flv' ;

 file_put_contents($new_flv_path, $data);

 return $new_flv_path ;

}

Download the fullsource code from this link given:

http://www.sajithmr.com/downloads/youtube-download-php.zip

Introduction >>

As i announced in my birthday post: celebrating-1st-year-of-sajithmr.com , i am starting my post series How to make Photoshop Express in PHP

Before we starting the step by step procedure, have a look at : http://www.sajithmr.com/photoshop/index.php

This is a basic version of online photo editing tool.

You can either upload a photo to this tool or you can browse some images already supplied.

The basic features are:

1. Crop
2. Resize
3. Water marking (Both logo and text)
4. Round corner
5. Rotate
6. Download and save

Try yourself

Upload some picture (or browse any picture), Press crop button (top left), you can see orkut photo upload like crop there. You can select the area, or drag anywhere in the image. Press crop button in the workdesk. (Press F11 or fullscreen view for better performance )

Try all other features provided.

The whole site is divided into four parts.

1. Tools
2. Work Desk
3. Browse Photos
4. Settings

Tools area contains options for crop, resize, watermark, round, undo , save, clear all, download.

Here ‘clear all’ reset all the operations and navigate the website into initial settings.

From the Settings Area, You can fix the angle of the image. You can rotate either clock-wise or anti-clock-wise depending on the angle provided (+ve or -ve)

In Text Water Mark Setting Area, you can enter a text, set font size and font color. It generates a pictures corresponding to your text. Click water mark button in tool area and fix the position , press Apply Watermark

You can also upload your water mark logo.

Finally you can download the edited picture by clicking download button in the Tool area (top right) .

The interesting thing is the whole website / tool is created in a single day.

wanna learn how to implement this ??

Keep reading rest of the series.

In Online Photoshop in PHP (Series Part 2) >> Implementation of the Browse Photos Area

Thanks and Regards
Sajith M.R