Ok, working on a vimeo based video blog theme for wordpress and rather than lazily ask people to paste the embed code into each video update (via a custom field), I'd rather the user supplied just the video id... basically I can't guarantee that each video is going to be the same height / width so I'm trying to get the embed code directly from vimeo (rather than getting the user to supply) rather than hardcoding a height / width for the iframe (as the theme is going to be responsive and I'm using a small jquery script to resize the videos on the fly)
So far, having tried to butcher Vimeo's own API example, I've got this:
function curl_get($url) {
$curl = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
$return = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
return $return;
}
// Create the URL
$oembed_vid_id = get_field('video_embed_code');
$oembed_url = 'http://vimeo.com/api/v2/video/' . $oembed_vid_id . '.xml';
// Load in the oEmbed XML
$oembed = simplexml_load_string(curl_get($oembed_url));
$embed_code = html_entity_decode($oembed->html);
<?php echo $embed_code ?>
But I get nothing back, have I overlooked something quite basic?
I can confirm that the $oembed_url URL does exist, try any vimeo id and you'll see the relevant xml for it, i.e. here's a video I've plucked from vimeo:
http://vimeo.com/api/v2/video/48198301.xml
Would be fantastic if I could get to grips with this as I'll be able to pull down thumbnails etc. and make use of all that other lovely info tucked away in the xml file.