Uploading a video to YouTube using an older version of the Zend Framework, prior to 1.5.3

We have recently added convenience methods that make uploading video entries to the YouTube API much easier than before. For those that are still using older versions of the PHP Client Library, prior to 1.5.3 of the Zend Framework, the snippet below explains how to upload a video entry. Note that this still works in version 1.5.3 and will continue to work in future revisions:

// assuming that $yt is a fully authenticated YouTube service object

// create a new Zend_Gdata_YouTube_VideoEntry object
$myVideoEntry = new Zend_Gdata_YouTube_VideoEntry();

// create a new Zend_Gdata_App_MediaFileSource object for your video file (if using direct upload)
$filesource = $yt->newMediaFileSource('/path/to/mytestmovie.mov');
$filesource->setContentType('video/quicktime');

// set slug header
$filesource->setSlug('mytestmovie.mov');

// add the filesource to the video entry
$myVideoEntry->setMediaSource($filesource);

// create a new Zend_Gdata_YouTube_Extension_MediaGroup object
$mediaGroup = $yt->newMediaGroup();
$mediaGroup->title = $yt->newMediaTitle()->setText('My Test Movie');
$mediaGroup->description = $yt->newMediaDescription()->setText('My description');

// the category must be a valid YouTube category
// optionally set some developer tags*
$mediaGroup->category = array(
$yt->newMediaCategory()->setText('Autos')->setScheme('http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007/categories.cat'),
$yt->newMediaCategory()->setText('mydevelopertag')->setScheme('http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007/developertags.cat'),
$yt->newMediaCategory()->setText('anotherdevelopertag')->setScheme('http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007/developertags.cat')
);

// set keywords, please note that they cannot contain white-space
$mediaGroup->keywords = $yt->newMediaKeywords()->setText('cars, funny');
$myVideoEntry->mediaGroup = $mediaGroup;

// optionally set video location
$yt->registerPackage('Zend_Gdata_Geo');
$yt->registerPackage('Zend_Gdata_Geo_Extension');
$where = $yt->newGeoRssWhere();
$position = $yt->newGmlPos('37.0 -122.0');
$where->point = $yt->newGmlPoint($position);
$myVideoEntry->setWhere($where);


// upload URL for the currently authenticated user
$uploadUrl = 'http://uploads.gdata.youtube.com/feeds/users/default/uploads';

try {
$newEntry = $yt->insertEntry($myVideoEntry, $uploadUrl, 'Zend_Gdata_YouTube_VideoEntry');
} catch (Zend_Gdata_App_HttpException $httpException) {
echo $httpException->getRawResponseBody();
} catch (Zend_Gdata_App_Exception $e) {
echo $e->getMessage();
}

* Find out more about developer tags