Video playlists with VOD

Hey Zach...

If I understand what you wish to do it isn't very hard at all. Cablecast provides a web service for doing exactly what you want. I have used this web service to integrate Cablecast with web sites using PHP.

One of the web service functions is called 'AdvancedShowSearch' you can use this function to get a list of shows that are available on the VOD server. There is also an option to limit to a certain category. So if all the shows you wished to embed on the front page of your aththletics department were in the same category, it would be as simple as calling this function with the limit to VOD option enabled, and limit to the particular project ID.

Once you have this list of shows, with a bit of ajax you could easily generate a list and allow users to choose which show was embeded.

Here is some simple PHP code that would build a table of all the shows available for VOD in a particular category.

<?php require_once('nusoap.php'); //SOAP function library

$client = new nusoap_client("YOURSERVERADDRESS/CablecastWS/CablecastWS.asmx?WSDL", 'wsdl'); // Creates New SOAP client using WSDL file

$searchDate = date("Y-m-d")."T12:00:00";

// Search for all shows that have an event date less than now that are available for VOD
$result = $client?>call('AdvancedShowSearch', array(
'ChannelID' => 1,
'searchString' => '',
'eventDate' => $searchDate,
'dateComparator' => '<',
'restrictToCategoryID' => YOURCATEGORYID, //This would be the category ID
'restrictToProducerID' => 0,
'restrictToProjectID' => 0,
'displayStreamingShowsOnly' => 1,
'searchOtherSites' => 0,), '', '', false, true);

$resultNumber = count($result['AdvancedShowSearchResult']['SiteSearchResult']['Shows']['ShowInfo']); // of shows for loop
$count = 0; // Set count varaible

if($resultNumber == '0')
{
//There is probably something wrong if this shows up.
echo "There are now Shows currently available for on demand viewing.";
}
// Prints out a table with time and show title with link to show detial page
if($resultNumber >= '1')
{ echo "<table border="0" width="100%"><tr>\n
<th>Program Title</th><th>Link</th></tr>\n";
while ($count <= ($resultNumber -1))
{

echo "<tr><td>".$result['AdvancedShowSearchResult']['SiteSearchResult']['Shows']['ShowInfo'][$count]['Title']."</td><td><a href='".$result['AdvancedShowSearchResult']['SiteSearchResult']['Shows']['ShowInfo'][$count]['StreamingFileURL']."'>Watch Now</td></tr>\n";

$count++;
}
echo "</table>";
}
}
}

?>

I don't know what this forum will do to my code.

-ray