Say I want to click on a url path www.something/3/4/5/something
Say 3 and 4 are dynamic, and change relative to link.
Can I just use like preg_match or something in the link www.something/…some code…/…some code…/5/something
Thanks!
Would this work??
Its not on my server, but it seems like it should.
[php]$thumbnail = ‘http://cdn1.image.website.webcdn.com/’ . $_SERVER[‘QUERY_STRING’] . ‘/’ . $_SERVER[‘QUERY_STRING’] . ‘/’.$url_id.’/original/8.jpg’;[/php]
NOTE: the URL_ID variable is what I want to manipulate.
Thanks!
Not quite…
$_SERVER[‘QUERY_STRING’] will return everything after the ? if it is present.
if your URL looked like this:
[php]
www.somesite.com?page=somepage
echo $_SERVER[‘QUERY_STRING’];
//output:
page=somepage
[/php]
If your URL looked like this:
[php]
www.somesite.com
echo $_SERVER[‘QUERY_STRING’];
//output
(will output nothing)
[/php]
How are you creating the links?
Where is the data coming from? (IE:database/textfile/hard coded into page?)
Give me a few more details and we’ll fix it up.
Red 
Links are coming located like this:
[php]cdn1.image.website.webcdn.com/201107/29/607422/original/8.jpg[/php]
![cdn1.image.website.webcdn.com/201107/29/607422/original/8.jpg[/php]](http://cdn1.image.website.webcdn.com/201107/29/607422/original/8.jpg%5B/php%5D){kind=link}
So, 201107/29 are the two parts of the path I want to through to get to the video ID 607422.
Once I can get to there, 607422 actually has a variable waiting for it.
Which works very well and displays video when I do this:
[php]$thumbnail = ‘http://cdn1.image.website.webcdn.com/201107/29/’ . $url_id . ‘/original/8.jpg’;[/php]
So, basically, I would like to find out how to power through /201107/29/ to get to $url_id
See, /201107/29/ changes with each image, naturally, as they lead to the video ID where I have a variable waiting.
Just need to get to variable through /201107/29/
THANK YOU for your help 
will the url always be in this format?
cdn1.image.website.webcdn.com/201107/29/607422/original/8.jpg
I know you said /201107/29/ will be different with each link but will the id your after always be the third directory after the main url?
If so:
[php]<?php
$url = ‘cdn1.image.website.webcdn.com/201107/29/607422/original/8.jpg’;
$arr = explode(’/’, $url);
// $arr[3] is the element you’re after
$url_id = $arr[3];
$url = ‘cdn1.image.website.webcdn.com/201107/29/’ . $url_id . ‘/original/8.jpg’;
?>[/php]
Hope that helps,
Red
Oh, thank you so much… but I don’t think that is the issue, or I am not explaining myself as well as I should. Please let me try again.
Yes, the format will be:
cdn1.image.website.webcdn.com/201107/29/607422/original/8.jpgEach video has a video id, /067422/
Which I already have a variable and code waiting once it sees this.
So, once I know /201107/29 – there isn’t a problem with getting thumbnail image of video, cause $url_id variable and its associated code works great.
'cdn1.image.website.webcdn.com/201107/29/' . $url_id . '/original/8.jpg'BUT when I click on embed video, I don’t know what /201107/29/ is going to be.
So I would like to know what is the php code I would use to get through /201107/29 ?
'cdn1.image.website.webcdn.com/?/?/' . $url_id .'/original/8.jpg'Now can you see my problem?
Thank you, again, for your help.
using the code i posted below, change this line:
[php]$url = ‘cdn1.image.website.webcdn.com/201107/29/’ . $url_id . ‘/original/8.jpg’;[/php]
to this:
[php]$url = ‘cdn1.image.website.webcdn.com/’ . $arr[1] . ‘/’ . $arr[2] . ‘/’ . $url_id . ‘/original/8.jpg’;[/php]
Let me know how you get on.
Red
Dang. Nothing happened with thumbnails from video embed link.
So video posts just fine, but still can’t get thumbnails 
There are no errors, just thumbnails don’t get captured… though they would ONLY if I put the direct link in, which isn’t what I need, as each video embed has it own thumbnail link that shows a picture for that video…and having the same thumbnail link image for every embed would be seriously boring, if not, annoying, and confusing, since each video is different
Here is my code, mixed with your suggestions (I changed $url to $thumbnail).
[php]
function video_embed_website_handle_thumbnail($url) {
$name = _video_embed_website_get_video_name($url);
$id = _video_embed_website_get_video_id($url);
$url_id = _video_embed_website_get_video_url_id($url);
$url_name = _video_embed_website_get_video_url_name($url);
$id_url = _video_embed_website_get_video_id_url($url);
$thumbnail = ‘http://cdn1.image.website.webcdn.com/201107/29/’ . $url_id . ‘/original/8.jpg’;
$arr = explode(’/’, $thumbnail);
$url_id = $arr[3];
$thumbnail = ‘http://cdn1.image.website.webcdn.com/’ . $arr[1] . ‘/’ . $arr[2] . ‘/’ . $url_id . ‘/original/8.jpg’;
return array(
‘name’ => $name,
‘id’ => $id,
‘url_id’ => $url_id,
‘url_name’ => $url_name,
‘id_url’ => $id_url,
‘url’ => $thumbnail,
);
}
[/php]
PS i would give you the url of the site I am trying to capture images for each video, BUT that isn’t an issue, and phphelp won’t let me.
That function doesn’t make sense?
On the one hand you’re passing in a url, then inside the function you are manipulating a hard coded url which will always return the same value(s).
Replace that function with this one and let me know how you get on.
[php]function video_embed_website_handle_thumbnail($url) {
$name = _video_embed_website_get_video_name($url);
$id = _video_embed_website_get_video_id($url);
$url_id = _video_embed_website_get_video_url_id($url);
$url_name = _video_embed_website_get_video_url_name($url);
$id_url = _video_embed_website_get_video_id_url($url);
$arr = explode('/', $url);
$thumbnail = $arr[0] . '/' . $arr[1] . '/' . $arr[2] . '/' . $arr[3] . '/original/8.jpg';
return array(
'name' => $name,
'id' => $id,
'url_id' => $url_id,
'url_name' => $url_name,
'id_url' => $id_url,
'url' => $thumbnail,
);
} // end function.
// This is the url you supplied, you should replace this with your code to get the actual url.
$url = ‘cdn1.image.website.webcdn.com/201107/29/607422/original/8.jpg’;
// call the function.
$thumb_url = video_embed_website_handle_thumbnail($url);
[/php]
Red