I want to implement the YT API for my framework, but it's only available for Zend, how would I go about creating my own?

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Either just take those Zend classes, or create your own. The former is quick but might not be precisely what you want. The latter is more time consuming but will be exactly what you want for your framework.

If you haven't already, go read the YouTube APIs documentation. After digesting the wealth of information there, get cracking with the code.

Well I don't like to take code from other frameworks and put it into my own, so I'll guess I'll have to go the harder route even though I don't know where to begin on making my own library for the youtube api.

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I just installed the Zend framework for precisely this, but not for the youtube API although it does come with it...

I love the Zend Framework YouTube API.

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Too bad I'm working on my own framework, and it's categorized as an extension. :D

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This is a pretty general question, it seems that you are dumping quite a load on us while not showing that you have done any work at all towards it. What research have you done on this?

You could probably get most of your ideas from the zend extension code. You don't have to use the exact code, but it could at least show you how to do things.

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Well I'm attempting that now, it's just that the code is all over the place, and methods like Load Class which load classes from outa no where.

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I briefly read though the code, it does look like a jumbled mess.

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It's quite funny too considering this is Zend Framework, I wonder who coded the api.

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I'm using the .net API for youtube and quite liking it. Its seems far better than the PHP version.

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How is this possible? Doesn't Zend have super duper smart PHP programmers that go out of their way to write clean code?

When I hear you guys confirming that the code is a jumbled mess (I'm not proficient in PHP enough to tell) it just makes my head shake.

Isn't there some kind of QA for the code that gets put out?

Don't they have other programmers that read the code and say, "WTF is this? It's a jumbled mess!"

This API is made for use with the zend framework, it was not made by zend. I have no experience with anything to do with zend, so I can not comment on them being the guys who should be doing it cleanly.

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ahhh ok! I was confused...

Hi,

I am a regular contributor to the Zend_Gdata component and have written a large portion of the YouTube API extensions. Can you let me know what exactly you are having trouble with? I want to make sure what makes you think that the code is a 'jumbled mess'.

We do use the Zend_Loader component to load required classes when needed and to lazy-load exceptions. Can you help me understand how this is a problem for you?

Thanks
- Jochen

At the moment, I'm learning Zend Framework, and so far I'm loving all of it, I prefer it over other frameworks to build client applications ( I'm a freelancer ), so I'm probably just going to extend it to my own needs, since I'm well enough of an expert myself.

Basically, like a sub/child/leaf ( w/e ) framework to Zend, only problem is if I do so, how should I manage to add the newer frameworks on top of it?

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