Get video thumbnails

video-thumbnails.php

//return thumbnail for youtube and vimeo
function video_image($url){
  $image_url = parse_url($url);
  if($image_url['host'] == 'www.youtube.com' || $image_url['host'] == 'youtube.com'){
    $array = explode('&', $image_url['query']);
    return 'http://img.youtube.com/vi/'.substr($array[0], 2).'/0.jpg';
  } else if($image_url['host'] == 'www.vimeo.com' || $image_url['host'] == 'vimeo.com'){
    $hash = unserialize(curl_get_file_contents('http://vimeo.com/api/v2/video/'.substr($image_url['path'], 1).'.php'));
    return $hash[0]['thumbnail_small'];
  }
}
function curl_get_file_contents($URL){
	$c = curl_init();
	curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
	curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_URL, $URL);
	$contents = curl_exec($c);
	curl_close($c);

	if ($contents) return $contents;
	else return FALSE;
}