youtube-dl use with php

[mrfade]

hello
i want use youtube-dl with php but i cant do
im use this codes

     $url = 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyI4v5sxT54';
    $template = '/var/www/html/ytdl/' .
                'videos/%(id)s.%(ext)s';
    $string = ('youtube-dl --output=' . escapeshellarg($template) . ' ' . escapeshellarg($url));

    $descriptorspec = array(
       0 => array("pipe", "r"),  // stdin
       1 => array("pipe", "w"),  // stdout
       2 => array("pipe", "w"),  // stderr
    );
    $process = proc_open($string, $descriptorspec, $pipes);
    $stdout = stream_get_contents($pipes[1]);
    fclose($pipes[1]);
    $stderr = stream_get_contents($pipes[2]);
    fclose($pipes[2]);
    $ret = proc_close($process);
    echo json_encode(array('status' => $ret, 'errors' => $stderr,
                           'url_orginal'=>$url, 'output' => $stdout,
                           'command' => $string));

but this codes returns http://prntscr.com/a8l77k
please help me, sorry for my bad english

[dstftw]

Have you installed youtube-dl at all? What's the output of which youtube-dl?

[mrfade]

i installed youtube-dl, already i can download videos with youtube-dl on shell but i want to use this with php
Output: http://prntscr.com/a8la5v

[dstftw]

Specify full path to youtube-dl in script.

[mrfade]

like this?
/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl --output='/var/www/html/ytdl/videos/%(id)s.%(ext)s' 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyI4v5sxT54'

[mrfade]

dstftw thank you very much!, you are hero 👍