CodeIgniter: Upload Video to YouTube - php

Question

I'm using CodeIgniter + Zend libraries. I want to let users upload videos to my site, which I will then upload to my YouTube channel. This is my first exposure to the YouTube API. Can someone point me in the right direction?
Am I right to be looking at this: http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/2.0/developers_guide_protocol.html#Direct_uploading? Does anyone have a snippet of code that shows how uploading is done via PHP?

Answer 1

Try this its working
class Addvideo extends Controller {
function Addvideo()
{
parent::Controller();
$this->load->library("zend");
$this->zend->load("Zend/Gdata/AuthSub");
$this->zend->load("Zend/Gdata/ClientLogin");
$authenticationURL= 'https://www.google.com/youtube/accounts/ClientLogin';
/************Authentication**************/
$this->zend->load("Zend/Gdata/YouTube");
$this->zend->load("Zend/Gdata/HttpClient");
$this->zend->load("Zend/Gdata/App/MediaFileSource");
$this->zend->load("Zend/Gdata/App/HttpException");
$this->zend->load("Zend/Uri/Http");
$youtube = new Zend_Gdata_YouTube();
$myVideoEntry = new Zend_Gdata_YouTube_VideoEntry();
$Gdata_AuthSub=new Zend_Gdata_AuthSub();
$this->load->helper("text");
}
function index(){
$data['result']='videos';
$this->load->view('videos/newform', $data);
}
function indexed(){
$title = 'GruppoDSE Video';
$description = 'Description';
$youtube = new Zend_Gdata_YouTube();
$authenticationURL= 'https://www.google.com/youtube/accounts/ClientLogin';
$httpClient = Zend_Gdata_ClientLogin::getHttpClient(
$username = $this->config->item('username'),
$password = $this->config->item('password'),
$service = 'youtube',
$client = null,
$source = 'Arts Connector', // a short string identifying your application
$loginToken = null,
$loginCaptcha = null,
$authenticationURL);
$developerKey = $this->config->item('developer_key');
$applicationId = 'Arts Connector';
$clientId = 'My video upload client - v1';
$yt = new Zend_Gdata_YouTube($httpClient, $applicationId, $clientId, $developerKey);
// create a new VideoEntry object
$myVideoEntry = new Zend_Gdata_YouTube_VideoEntry();
$myVideoEntry->setVideoTitle($title);
$myVideoEntry->setVideoDescription($description);
// The category must be a valid YouTube category!
$myVideoEntry->setVideoCategory('Autos');
// Set keywords. Please note that this must be a comma-separated string
// and that individual keywords cannot contain whitespace
$myVideoEntry->SetVideoTags('cars, funny');
$tokenHandlerUrl = 'http://gdata.youtube.com/action/GetUploadToken';
$tokenArray = $yt->getFormUploadToken($myVideoEntry, $tokenHandlerUrl);
$data['tokenValue'] = $tokenArray['token'];
$data['postUrl'] = $tokenArray['url'];
// place to redirect user after upload
$data['nextUrl'] = 'http://www.avantajsoftwares.com/gruppo/uploadVideo';
$res="Il file video aggiungere con successo, il risultato atteso verrà visualizzato dopo alcune volte";
$this->session->set_userdata('greenFlag',$res);
// build the form
$this->load->view('videos/form', $data);
}
function AddVideoAjax(){
$title=$_POST['title'];
$description=$_POST['description'];
$youtube = new Zend_Gdata_YouTube();
$authenticationURL= 'https://www.google.com/youtube/accounts/ClientLogin';
$httpClient = Zend_Gdata_ClientLogin::getHttpClient(
$username = $this->config->item('username'),
$password = $this->config->item('password'),
$service = 'youtube',
$client = null,
$source = 'Arts Connector', // a short string identifying your application
$loginToken = null,
$loginCaptcha = null,
$authenticationURL);
$developerKey = $this->config->item('developer_key');
$applicationId = 'Arts Connector';
$clientId = 'My video upload client - v1';
try {
$yt = new Zend_Gdata_YouTube($httpClient, $applicationId, $clientId, $developerKey);
// create a new VideoEntry object
$myVideoEntry = new Zend_Gdata_YouTube_VideoEntry();
$myVideoEntry->setVideoTitle($title);
$myVideoEntry->setVideoDescription($description);
// The category must be a valid YouTube category!
$myVideoEntry->setVideoCategory('Education');
// Set keywords. Please note that this must be a comma-separated string
// and that individual keywords cannot contain whitespace
$myVideoEntry->SetVideoTags('Seminar, Events');
$tokenHandlerUrl = 'http://gdata.youtube.com/action/GetUploadToken';
$tokenArray = $yt->getFormUploadToken($myVideoEntry, $tokenHandlerUrl);
$tokenValue = $tokenArray['token'];
$postUrl = $tokenArray['url'];
// place to redirect user after upload
$nextUrl = 'http://www.avantajsoftwares.com/gruppo/Addvideo';
$res="Il file video aggiungere con successo, il risultato atteso verrà visualizzato dopo alcune volte";
$this->session->set_userdata('greenFlag',$res);
// build the form
echo $form = '<form action="'. $postUrl .'?nexturl='. $nextUrl .
'" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" onsubmit="return valid()">'.
'<div style="float:left;"><input name="file" type="file" id="file"/></div><div class="preloader"></div>'.
'<input name="token" type="hidden" value="'. $tokenValue .'"/>'.
'<div style="clear:both"></div>'.
'<div class="login-footer" id="prog_bar style="cursor:pointer"><input value="Carica video" type="submit" id="validate" class="button" onclick="progress_bar()"/></div>'.
'</form>';
} catch (Zend_Gdata_App_Exception $e) {
echo $return="<div class='login-footer' style='width:130px;'><a style='height:16px; padding-top:7px;' class='button' href=".site_url()."Addvideo>Riprova di nuovo</a></div>";
}
// Assuming that $videoEntry is the object that was returned during the upload
//$state = $myVideoEntry->getVideoState();
}
function getAuthSubRequestUrl()
{
$gdata_AuthSub = new Zend_Gdata_AuthSub();
$next = 'http://www.avantajsoftwares.com/gruppo/videos';
$scope = 'http://gdata.youtube.com';
$secure = false;
$session = true;
return $data=$gdata_AuthSub->getAuthSubTokenUri($next, $scope, $secure, $session);
}
function getAuthSubHttpClient()
{
echo $_SESSION['sessionToken'];
if (!isset($_SESSION['sessionToken']) && !isset($_GET['token']) ){
echo 'Login!';
return;
} else if (!isset($_SESSION['sessionToken']) && isset($_GET['token'])) {
$_SESSION['sessionToken'] = Zend_Gdata_AuthSub::getAuthSubSessionToken($_GET['token']);
}
$httpClient = Zend_Gdata_AuthSub::getHttpClient($_SESSION['sessionToken']);
return $httpClient;
}
/*************************** Class end ***********************************/
}

Answer 2

I don't recommend using Zend with CI due to it's size and complexity. I developed a library specifically for CodeIgniter https://github.com/jimdoescode/CodeIgniter-YouTube-API-Library
The library provides several different options for uploading to YouTube. You can do a direct upload where you upload a video stored on your server to youtube. There is also an option to use a form to upload a video from the client to youtube. Check it out and let me know if you have any questions.

Answer 3

The docs have this, as well as other methods, covered for Zend Gdata: Uploading Videos