Get First Embed or Object

See this Codex page.

If it’s embedded, it’s not going to show up as an attachment… Not sure how I could use this…

Sorry – I was thinking of a video file that you’d uploaded. I don’t think there’s an easy way to achieve what you’re after. Essentially, you would need to search the whole post content for a specific shortcode or url.

I ended up writing a PHP function. It looks like this.

function show_thumb() {

	global $post, $posts;

	$thumb = '';

  	ob_start();
  	ob_end_clean();

	$output = preg_match_all('/(\<object.*\<\/object\>)/is', $post->post_content, $matches);
	$thumb = $matches [1] [0];

	if(empty($thumb)) {

		$output = preg_match_all('/<img.+src=[\'"]([^\'"]+)[\'"].*>/i', $post->post_content, $matches);
  		$thumb = $matches [1] [0];	

		if(empty($thumb)) {

			$thumb = "/images/default.jpg";

		} else {

			return '<img src="'.$thumb.'" alt="thumb-'.$post->ID.'" />';

		}

	} else {

		return $thumb;

  	}

}

Hey,

Your code is great, cant get it to pull in the object’s ie videos though.

Ive wrapped all videos in a div (<div class=video>) is there a way to search for this div instead. (all videos are embeded from youtube)