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Youtube and Symfony Application Built In Only 6 Hrs

Hi ,

I am back after a long gap ( due to my final semester exams).

This post is about my new R&D application. Last week all of sudden I got an idea to have my own cartoon website.The main purpose of the website is to bring the good collections of cartoon videos at one location. For this I initially thought to put a wordpress blog and use some plugins to get videos from youtube. But after looking into Youtube API and i found a good php client library for youtube developed by ZEND. This library is a part of Zend Framework. you can aslo use the library in any standalone php application

Using this library we can play with all google apps like docs, calendar, spreadsheet, apps, youtube… etc. After 2 days of research i thought to write the application this weekend. and on first day itself that too within 6 hrs I designed the base model with few symfony actions and partials. and I named it CartoonRiders

Currently the application is having the following features.

  • Categories of different cartoon characters
  • Display the list of related video thumbnails
  • Simple keyword search

Please check CartoonRiders and leave your Feedback / inputs to improve the application.

–Asif–

symfony, youtube

  1. Santhosh
    June 3rd, 2008 at 23:00 | #1

    Really nice work dude.

    the way you designed and the features that you added is simply super. Your decision to build your cartoonRiders in youtube api is really coool thought, which helped you in quickly building this smart website.

  2. June 3rd, 2008 at 23:21 | #2

    good to receive your feedback :)

  3. Satish
    June 9th, 2008 at 00:02 | #3

    Great work dude, that too with in 6hrs is simply superb

    That was a wonderfull idea infact

    All the best…

  4. Prajwala
    July 8th, 2008 at 10:03 | #4

    Nice work,

    You have done a very good work in less time.
    I feel the UI is not good.

    When I am searching for some thing it is showing loading on top but the content is updating in the left side. The “loading..” has to be placed on top of loading place, like how you tube is showing loading when it is loading content on the video

    When I search or when I select some category, I expected that the video in right side will also change based on search criteria.

    I like related videos display.

    The place for left side is not sufficient I think.

    I just said my opinion.

  5. July 8th, 2008 at 10:14 | #5

    @Prajwala

    Thanks and i appreciate for the time you spent on giving the feedback.
    I will add your request on my to do list. and I am planning to release the next version of this application in a few weeks.

    Thanks again :-)

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