Retrieving data from a string

I have a string containing this data

i would like to retrieve the data "xxxxxxx " enclosed with the youtube bbcode.. how do i fo that?

please enlighten me.. thanks

 

$string = 'haha haha haaha haha haha [youtube]xxxxxxx[/youtube]';
preg_match('/(\[youtube\])(.*?)(\[\/youtube\])/i', $string, $matches);
$matches[2] contains what you are looking for

 

Or you can use the str_replace function, to replace "xxxxxxx" with "[youtube]xxxxxxx[/youtube]"

 

hopefully this works... coded right off my head...

// original string contents
$string = "haha haha haaha haha haha [youtube]xxxxxxx[/youtube] haha haha haha haha";

// $result will contain "xxxxxxx[/youtube] haha haha haha haha"
$result = substr($string, strpos($string, "[youtube]") + 9);

// $result will contain "xxxxxxx"
$result = substr($result, 0, strpos($result, "[/youtube]"));

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