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One of the great aspects of Viddler’s API is the ability to embed our webcam recorder right into your site. With only a few lines of code, your users will be able to record video using any camera attached to their computer, and it’s automatically uploaded to Viddler and encoded. Let’s dive right in!

First off, if you haven’t checked out part one and part two of the phpViddler series, you’ll want to do that first, as some of that code will be necessary for recording.
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If you haven’t already, please be sure to read part one that Kyle put together, which covers the simple task of initiating the phpViddler class and using it to list videos. Some of the code found herein may not make sense if you haven’t read part one.

I think you’ll find, through these tutorials, that using phpViddler makes it dead simple to use Viddler’s APIs. Please leave feedback if you have any specific areas you’d like us to cover.

Authenticating a user

To authenticate a user you will need both the username and password of the user. For this example, we’ll say the username is my username, cdevroe, and the password will be a fake password of ‘password’.

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Over the next couple weeks, Colin and I are going to be guiding you through how to use Viddler’s API with phpViddler, the PHP wrapper for our API functions. We’ll be covering everything from embedding videos to registering new users, so keep checking back!

Today, I’ll be covering how to list videos using the Viddler API and phpViddler using the functions videos_listbyuser, videos_listbytag, and videos_listfeatured.
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