[Xerte-dev] Re: Youtube RSS

Pat Lockley (Pgogy) info at pgogywebstuff.com
Tue Jul 7 11:38:34 BST 2015 

Not something I know how to change

On 2015-07-07 06:36, Julian Tenney wrote:
> I'm thinking we must be able to do it from Xenith.js somehow?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat
> Lockley (Pgogy)
> Sent: 07 July 2015 11:33
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Youtube RSS
> 
> So the proposal is a PHP file into which the variables are hard coded?
> Are these files only used by Xerte? Or are they used elsewhere?
> I would look at line 141 of modules/xerte/play and place them there
> inside their own script tag
> 
> On 2015-07-07 06:20, Julian Tenney wrote:
>> OK, so where would you put the code to create a javascript variable
>> from the php vars defined in the api_keys file?
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat
>> Lockley (Pgogy)
>> Sent: 07 July 2015 11:18
>> To: For Xerte technical developers
>> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Youtube RSS
>> 
>> Play is what all play request urls go to (or was) Ignore everything in
>> https://github.com/thexerteproject/xerteonlinetoolkits/blob/develop/pl
>> ay.php
>> before line 181
>> The first DB query gets the info on the project, include its template
>> type line 205 loads that template type play library
>> (https://github.com/thexerteproject/xerteonlinetoolkits/blob/develop/m
>> odules/xerte/play.php) Then a load of logic happens based on the
>> project display options (is it private, is it password) eventually
>> either show_template or dont_show_template is called (which lives in
>> https://github.com/thexerteproject/xerteonlinetoolkits/blob/develop/mo
>> dules/xerte/play.php)
>> And this code displays things
>> There is JS you can mangle here
>> 
>> On 2015-07-07 06:03, Julian Tenney wrote:
>>> Hmm. I still get completely lost trying to figure out how play.php,
>>> play_html5.php, modules/xerte/play.php and so on all interoperate. It
>>> makes absolutely no sense to me what happens through those files at
>>> all.
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat
>>> Lockley (Pgogy)
>>> Sent: 07 July 2015 10:48
>>> To: For Xerte technical developers
>>> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Youtube RSS
>>> 
>>> I declare global inside a function if the variable is global in scope
>>> and you wish to use it Which is a statement in php crazy scope
>>> 
>>> so
>>> 
>>> $yt_api = "blah";
>>> 
>>> function yt(){
>>> global $yt_api;
>>> echo $yt_api;
>>> }
>>> 
>>> would output "blah"
>>> 
>>> You could add
>>> 
>>> echo "<script> some javascript </script>";
>>> 
>>> if that works
>>> 
>>> On 2015-07-07 05:42, Julian Tenney wrote:
>>>> OK, here's where my .php stuff falls down: how to get a javascript
>>>> variable available to the code in the two models files: because the
>>>> files are not php files I can't do
>>>> 
>>>> gapi.client.setApiKey('<?php echo $youtube_api_key; ?>');
>>>> 
>>>> I created this file in the root (api_keys.php):
>>>> 
>>>> <?php
>>>> 
>>>> global $youtube_api_key = 'AIzaSyDzCQC9UsxpShswJUSqgMWuwbeIltZsOas';
>>>> 
>>>> global $flickr_api_key = '8f6f38d31f048a90c436583a6ac92e47';
>>>> 
>>>> ?>
>>>> 
>>>> And then required_onced it in play_html5php and preview_html5.php
>>>> after the line that requires config.php:
>>>> 
>>>> require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . "/config.php");
>>>> 
>>>> require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . "/api-keys.php");
>>>> 
>>>> and then got stuck as to how best to proceed.
>>>> 
>>>> FROM: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>>> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] ON BEHALF OF Ron
>>>> Mitchell
>>>> SENT: 06 July 2015 14:59
>>>> TO: 'For Xerte technical developers'
>>>> SUBJECT: [Xerte-dev] Re: Youtube RSS
>>>> 
>>>> yeah sounds like a plan but I'd suggest api_keys-dist.php or
>>>> api_keys-sample.php to follow the way moodle or wordpress do this.
>>>> 
>>>> FROM: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>>> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] ON BEHALF OF
>>>> Julian Tenney
>>>> SENT: 06 July 2015 14:46
>>>> TO: For Xerte technical developers
>>>> SUBJECT: [Xerte-dev] Re: Youtube RSS
>>>> 
>>>> Yes we do, there is hardcoded key in the flickr model file as well
>>>> (presumably mine) which we should also split out, but I think that's
>>>> it.
>>>> 
>>>> So perhaps we need an api_keys.php file that defines the vars, and
>>>> you rename it from api_keys.txt ?
>>>> 
>>>> FROM: Tenney Julian
>>>> SENT: 06 July 2015 14:42
>>>> TO: 'For Xerte technical developers'
>>>> SUBJECT: RE: [Xerte-dev] Re: Youtube RSS
>>>> 
>>>> Do we use any other API keys anwhere?
>>>> 
>>>> FROM: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>>> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] ON BEHALF OF Ron
>>>> Mitchell
>>>> SENT: 06 July 2015 14:42
>>>> TO: 'For Xerte technical developers'
>>>> SUBJECT: [Xerte-dev] Re: Youtube RSS
>>>> 
>>>> Just a quick comment to confirm that adding my own key works fine.
>>>> 
>>>> We obviously do need to get this working in a way that future
>>>> upgrades don't break locally added keys.
>>>> 
>>>> FROM: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>>> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] ON BEHALF OF
>>>> Julian Tenney
>>>> SENT: 06 July 2015 12:04
>>>> TO: For Xerte technical developers
>>>> (xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk)
>>>> SUBJECT: [Xerte-dev] Youtube RSS
>>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> I've got the youtube rss working with a hardcode API key. Before we
>>>> release the code we can split that out and provide a file for people
>>>> to store their own keys in and read that. I'd appreciate someone
>>>> peer-reviewing my code: couple of questions:
>>>> 
>>>> We need to load the google api which I've done by simply adding…
>>>> 
>>>> <script
>>>> src="https://apis.google.com/js/client.js?onload=googleApiClientRead
>>>> y
>>>> [1]"></script>
>>>> 
>>>> …to the top of the file.
>>>> 
>>>> The onGoogleApiClientReady function is defined in global scope so I
>>>> wondered how to make it part of the youtuberss object, but if I
>>>> simply define it within the object, it doesn't get called
>>>> (obviously).
>>>> 
>>>> I think Fay or John will have an idea how to make all this nice and
>>>> graceful! I've committed the file (you'll need an API key!)
>>>> 
>>>> Let me know comments,
>>>> 
>>>> J
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