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John
John

Reputation: 31

Youtube api playlist id

I am using the test code found @ http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/2.0/developers_guide_php.html to create a playlist:

$newPlaylist = $yt->newPlaylistListEntry();
$newPlaylist->summary = $yt->newDescription()->setText($desc);
$newPlaylist->title = $yt->newTitle()->setText($title);
// post the new playlist
$postLocation = 'http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/default/playlists';
try {
  $playlist = $yt->insertEntry($newPlaylist, $postLocation);
  } 
catch (Zend_Gdata_App_Exception $e) {
  echo $e->getMessage();
}

The playlist is created, but how can I get the id or url of the playlist that was just created?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1196

Answers (3)

Brandon Rohde
Brandon Rohde

Reputation: 318

You don't need any special hacks to make this work. You just need to explicitly set the protocol version for the $playlist variable, along with the $yt variable. As you stated, set the major protocol version for $yt earlier:

$yt->setMajorProtocolVersion(2);

Then after you initialize $playlist, set the protocol on that as well:

$playlist = $yt->insertEntry($newPlaylist, $postLocation, 'Zend_Gdata_YouTube_PlaylistListEntry');
$playlist->setMajorProtocolVersion(2);

Once you do this, you should be able to get your playlist ID no problem :)

$playlist_id = $playlist->getPlaylistID();

Upvotes: 0

vaene
vaene

Reputation: 189

This is a complete and utter hack, I had the same exact problem, so I went into the class at Zend/Gdata/YouTube/PlaylistListEntry.php on line 229 I commented out the if else statement. 

 /**
 * Returns the Id relating to the playlist.
 *
 * @throws Zend_Gdata_App_VersionException
 * @return Zend_Gdata_YouTube_Extension_PlaylistId  The id of this playlist.
 */
public function getPlaylistId()
{
    /*if (($this->getMajorProtocolVersion() == null) ||
        ($this->getMajorProtocolVersion() == 1)) {
        require_once 'Zend/Gdata/App/VersionException.php';
        throw new Zend_Gdata_App_VersionException('The yt:playlistId ' .
            'element is not supported in versions earlier than 2.');
    } else {*/
        return $this->_playlistId;
    //}
}

I would LOVE for someone to show us how to fix this the right way, but this made it so 

function printPlaylistListEntry($playlistListEntry, $showPlaylistContents = false)
    {

      $this->yt->setMajorProtocolVersion(2);
      echo '<br>Title: ' . $playlistListEntry->title->text . "\n";
      echo '<br>Description: ' . $playlistListEntry->description->text . "\n";
      echo '<br>playlistId: ' . $playlistListEntry->playlistId->text . "\n";

... (from the youtube v2 php api).

will return the playlistid.

Title: therighttitle

Description: therightdescription

playlistId: therightplaylistId

edit: I think this may be a better solution:

if ($this->getMajorProtocolVersion() < 2) {
        require_once 'Zend/Gdata/App/VersionException.php';
        throw new Zend_Gdata_App_VersionException('The yt:playlistId ' .
            'element is not supported in versions earlier than 2.');
    } else {

        return $this->_playlistId;
    }

replace the getPlaylistId() function with this, follows the logic of the preceding getDescription function, and its less hacky. Again completely open to critiques on why this is or is not a good idea from the zend people.

Upvotes: 0

Calin
Calin

Reputation: 53

I have the same problem. I have managed to get a bit further but I still can't get the playlistID. Here is what I did:

instead of:

$playlist = $yt->insertEntry($newPlaylist, $postLocation);

I used :

$playlist = $yt->insertEntry($newPlaylist, $postLocation, 'Zend_Gdata_YouTube_PlaylistListEntry');

But when I try to get the id by $playlist->getPlaylistID() or $playlist->playlistId->text I get the same exception which says :

The yt:playlistId element is not supported in versions earlier than 2.

even if I have set it earlier with $yt->setMajorProtocolVersion(2);

Upvotes: 2

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