HTML and PHP manipulation in post

Hey there,

I am trying to have gravity forms automatically do some things for me when creating a new post.
I have two fields involved in this problem. The first one is the post body which is coming through just fine. The second one is a custom field I inserted into the form for a youtube video URL. I want to do a couple things with this URL.

The URL looks like this: http://youtu.be/gukwO4uCgTY
This is the ID of the video in the URL above: gukwO4uCgTY

I want to take the URL and pull only the ID out of it.
Then I want the following code to be inserted into the post in a way thats invisible to the user, and have that ID inserted where indicated below (between the slashes).

<a href="
<?php get_permalink(); ?>
">
<img alt="" src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/********INSERT_ID_HERE***********/2.jpg" title="Test Image" class="alignnone" width="120" height="90" />

Is there a way to pass PHP and HTML in to the body of the post or the template?

Chris,

Im ok with figuring out the code to pull the ID out of the URL etc, the part I am lost in is how to even access the data that goes into my post.

I am trying to use the $entry variable within the my content.php file. Is it even accessible there? Or do I need to access this $entry variable in one of the plugin PHP files.

Can I get access to the submission data so I can use it in a template file somehow, with a DB query or something of the like?

I need to use the submitted you tube URL to create a URL based thumbnail on the blog roll and then use that same URL to make an embedded video appear on the single posts pages.

Lastly, this has been giving me quite the headache for a couple days now. Is there someone you could refer me to that could help me out with this? I would be able to pay for a few hours of time, but I would prefer that the resource be intimately familiar with the gravity forms plugin so I am not paying for someone to learn about it.

I have been playing around with this code for a while just trying to get something to appear on screen. Its pretty sloppy but here goes:

<?php $lead = RGFormsModel::get_lead($lead_id); ?> // tried with lead_id and entry_id here in the get_lead function
<?php echo $lead[8]; ?> // a drop down menu
<?php print $lead[6]; ?> // the you tube url entry
<?php print("hello"); ?> // just to make sure i wasnt going insane, this is working
<?php if ($lead[8] == "Video"): ?>
<?php $YT_URL_ARRAY = array(); ?>
<?php $YT_URL_ARRAY = explode( '/', $lead[6] ); ?>
<?php $YT_URL_ID = $YT_URL_ARRAY[1]; ?>
<?php print $YT_URL_ID; ?>
<?php endif; ?>

Once I get the ID extracted from the URL with above code then I will be inserting it into this code on my content.php template:

// permalink is a wordpress function for the post's link
<img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/ID_WOULD_GO_HERE/2.jpg" /> // some php would go in there to insert the ID so I could pull the you tube video's thumbnail for use on the blog roll

THEN on the content-single.php (the single post page) I would want to pull the ID out of the form submitted URL again and insert it into this code:

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ID_WOULD_GO_HERE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> // an embedded youtube video

Basically I am trying to get the ID so I can use it to request a thumbnail of the video's image to be used on the blog roll post snippets. Then I want to have the embedded video on the full size page.

I am trying to mirror something like the videos page here: http://www.dorkly.com/videos