Questions:
I have been trying to find a solution to easily manage youtube live chat. I have managed to retrieve the link for my youtube livestream chat using this code.
Is it possible to redirect the page to the generated link?
<html>
<head>
<title>YT Live Chat Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
try {
$videoId = getLiveVideoID('UCSJ4gkVC6NrvII8umztf0Ow');
// Output the Chat URL
echo "The Chat URL is https://www.youtube.com/live_chat?v=".$videoId;
} catch(Exception $e) {
// Echo the generated error
echo "ERROR: ".$e->getMessage();
}
// The method which finds the video ID
function getLiveVideoID($channelId)
{
$videoId = null;
// Fetch the livestream page
if($data = file_get_contents('https://www.youtube.com/embed/live_stream?channel='.$channelId))
{
// Find the video ID in there
if(preg_match('/\'VIDEO_ID\': \"(.*?)\"/', $data, $matches))
$videoId = $matches[1];
else
throw new Exception('Couldn\'t find video ID');
}
else
throw new Exception('Couldn\'t fetch data');
return $videoId;
} ?>
</body>
</html>
How to&Answers:
Do you mean to just redirect the current page to another by using PHP? If that’s the case, you can set a header and change the location like:
header('Location: https://www.google.com/');
But you have to set headers before producing any output on your page such as your <html> and <head> tags. You should set the header before any html code on top of your page or alternatively you can use JavaScript to redirect the page.
Examples from w3schools.com:
// Simulate a mouse click:
window.location.href = "http://www.w3schools.com";
// Simulate an HTTP redirect:
window.location.replace("http://www.w3schools.com");Hope this helps.
