I want to do something similar to youtube.com's embed


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Izr-PBNjXUQ
This is the embed for the link above

<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Izr-PBNjXUQ&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Izr-PBNjXUQ&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>

when this is typed into the browser

http://www.youtube.com/v/Izr-PBNjXUQ

becomes

http://www.youtube.com/swf/l.swf?video_id=Izr-PBNjXUQ&eurl=&iurl=http%3A//img.youtube.com/vi/Izr-PBNjXUQ/default.jpg&t=OEgsToPDskKrduf-TcsxEHmOSYQ6KIAA&rel=1&border=0

How do I do something similar to that with my site?

Somebody please help me with this.

You can do it with .htaccess file...

Cool can someone show me an example of how to do this.

You can (as said above) use .htaccess to use Apache's rewriting module. It usues regular-expressions to interpet an incomming URL to rewrite an URL with a query string in which PHP can interpet.

http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/sitema...rewriting.html

But it looks like from the example above, you may need to do a script to gain the extra parameters from the ID within a database or other data source.