Youtube API - How to limit results for pagination? - zend-framework

Question

I want to grab a user's uploads (ie: BBC) and limit the output to 10 per page.
Whilst I can use the following URL:
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/bbc/uploads/?start-index=1&max-results=10
The above works okay.
I want to use the query method instead:
The Zend Framework docs:
http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.gdata.youtube.html
State that I can retrieve videos uploaded by a user, but ideally I want to use the query method to limit the results for a pagination.
The query method is on the Zend framework docs (same page as before under the title 'Searching for videos by metadata') and is similar to this:
$yt = new Zend_Gdata_YouTube();
$query = $yt->newVideoQuery();
$query->setTime('today');
$query->setMaxResults(10);
$videoFeed = $yt->getUserUploads( NULL, $query );
print '<ol>';
foreach($videoFeed as $video):
print '<li>' . $video->title . '</li>';
endforeach;
print '</ol>';
The problem is I can't do $query->setUser('bbc').
I tried setAuthor but this returns a totally different result.
Ideally, I want to use the query method to grab the results in a paginated fashion.
How do I use the $query method to set my limits for pagination?
Thanks.

Answer 1

I've decided just to use the user uploads feed as a way of getting pagination to work.
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/bbc/uploads/?start-index=1&max-results=10
If there is a way to use the query/search method to do a similar job would be interesting to explore.

Answer 2

I basically solved this in the same way as worchyld with a slight twist:
$username = 'ignite';
$limit = 30; // Youtube will throw an exception if > 50
$offset = 1; // First video is 1 (silly non-programmers!)
$videoFeed = null;
$uploadCount = 0;
try {
$yt = new Zend_Gdata_YouTube();
$yt->setMajorProtocolVersion(2);
$userProfile = $yt->getUserProfile($username);
$uploadCount = $userProfile->getFeedLink('http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007#user.uploads')->countHint;
// The following code is a dirty hack to get pagination with the YouTube API without always starting from the first result
// The following code snippet was copied from Zend_Gdata_YouTube->getUserUploads();
$url = Zend_Gdata_YouTube::USER_URI .'/'. $username .'/'. Zend_Gdata_YouTube::UPLOADS_URI_SUFFIX;
$location = new Zend_Gdata_YouTube_VideoQuery($url);
$location->setStartIndex($offset);
$location->setMaxResults($limit);
$videoFeed = $yt->getVideoFeed($location);
} catch (Exception $e) {
// Exception handling goes here!
return;
}
The Zend YouTube API seems silly as the included getUserUploads method never returns the VideoQuery instance before it actually fetches the feed, and while you can pass a location object as a second parameter, it's an "either-or" situation - it'll only use the username parameter to construct a basic uri or only use the location, where you have to construct the whole thing yourself (as above).