RegEx pattern to get the YouTube video ID from any YouTube URL

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if (preg_match('/youtube\.com\/watch\?v=([^\&\?\/]+)/', $url, $id)) {
  $values = $id[1];
} else if (preg_match('/youtube\.com\/embed\/([^\&\?\/]+)/', $url, $id)) {
  $values = $id[1];
} else if (preg_match('/youtube\.com\/v\/([^\&\?\/]+)/', $url, $id)) {
  $values = $id[1];
} else if (preg_match('/youtu\.be\/([^\&\?\/]+)/', $url, $id)) {
  $values = $id[1];
}
else if (preg_match('/youtube\.com\/verify_age\?next_url=\/watch%3Fv%3D([^\&\?\/]+)/', $url, $id)) {
    $values = $id[1];
} else {   
// not an youtube video
}

This is what I use to extract the id from an youtube url. I think it works in all cases.

Note that at the end $values = id of the video

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