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PHP Youtube video downloader script

Vikas Patial — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:37:19 +0000

I was searching for a simple script which would allow me to download videos from youtube using php. I did find some implementation but only one of them worked and it used Pear. So here is a simple script to help you download videos from youtube. Allows you to download restricted videos too by logging into youtube.

The script is a simple youtube class which uses CURL.

Sample usage of the youtube class –

include(‘curl.php’);
include(‘youtube.php’);

$tube = new youtube();

// Only required for restricted videos
// $tube->username = “userid”;
// $tube->password = “password”;

$download_link = $tube->get($_POST['url']);

New Version with much much more : FreeDown Downloader

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PQuery – PHP and JQuery

Vikas Patial — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:03:53 +0000

PQuery is a set of helper classes for JQuery JavaScript library.This library allows you to easily integrate AJAX , Effects and other JQuery functionality into your PHP scripts.IT has a small foot print and is compatible with PHP4 and PHP5.

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PQuery Demos : PQuery Demos.

Documentation : PQuery Documentation .

License : MIT or GPL ( what ever you wish to use )

A new Cakephp based framework for my apps soon

Vikas Patial — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 23:08:45 +0000

Since last year i have been working on lots of Web Application,During this time I have gone through many frameworks like Code Igniter , CakePHP , Symfony and RoR trying to find what will suit me best. RoR i learned and used a little but never got to using it in a release app , but i did learn a few of the cool stuff which RoR is famous for. CI i just found a little too simple but i still recommend it to beginners, Symfony was a configuration mess. So Cake PHP is what i was working on mostly , But when delivering Small applications to clients i found it a mess to deliver a 1 MB framework with a 30 kb of actual code. Actually coming from an embedded systems background i like my work to be small , fast and do max possible in minimal code.

So i found another framework released by the author of Frog CMS , It was blazingly fast , really small ( 30 kb file ) and php5 with pdo.But i wanted php4 and php5 support and i was used to CakePHP and liked the way it worked. So i started writing my own thing based on the Light framework and modified API And directory structure to be more like cake among other things. I hate to reinvent the wheel , but using truck tyres for a bicycle dosent really make sense and stripping these mammoths would have taken more time.

I have a basic framework ready and will base all my work on the new framework . For a start it has most basic features of cakePHP under < 30k zipped. Here are some of the features -

FAST – Really fast
SMALL – Really small
SIMPLE – Few API to get u started fast
Fully OO MVC Code
Almost Zero Configuration

Before i release my framework as documentation is left and any advice any of you guys would like to give ?