This little PHP library provides a roughly OEmbed - http://oembed.com - compatible interface for javascript and PHP clients to consume. It can deal with OEmbed providers by acting as a proxy, and it has a plugin system where you can add your own embed-providers.

Embeds are useful when you don't want a whole page to load something (namely, a resource), you just want the content itself: being a youtube video, a flickr photo, a calendar entry, or anything else.

A YouTube plugin is boundled.

Demo:

http://aadaam.dev.ischmerosok.hu/oembed/Embed.php?url=www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SUtE_HF-88&format=xml

http://aadaam.dev.ischmerosok.hu/oembed/tests/ForumTest.html

Usage: $manager = ProviderManager::getInstance(); $manager->provide($url,$format)

Where format is a string and one of: * xml * json * array * serialized * object

Usage of object is recommended.

There's a template for objects to render HTML direcltly (with my own LazyTemplateEngine which is about 10-20 lines of code, and included :), you can use it like:

$manager = ProviderManager::getInstance(); $obj=$manager->provide("http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=EQqJSAOOmGI","object"); $html=$obj->renderClass();

You can add more providers in the providers.xml file. A non-OEmbed provider gets his XML node as a SimpleXML element in constructor, and must implement the

• boolean match(string url) and
• mixed provide(string url,string format) functions.

Oh! Requires PHP5 I guess, and uses json_encode() function...