The document provides an overview of how to manage video content using ProdigyView's content management system, including uploading and converting video files. It outlines the requirements, methods for creating, updating, and deleting video content, and offers examples of usage as well as API references. Users can create video content by passing arguments into specific methods and search or retrieve information based on content IDs.

1. Video Content Management
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2. Overview
Objective
Learn how to manipulate video content of ProdigyView’s built-in content
management system. Also learn how to upload a video file directly into
the cms.
Requirements
 Installed version of ProdigyView with a database
 Understanding of base content
 Understanding of the DEFINES in ProdigyView
 Understanding of FFMPEG from the FFMPEG tutorial
Estimated Time
14 minutes
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3. Follow Along With Code
Example
1. Download a copy of the example code at www.prodigyview.com/source.
2. Install the system in an environment you feel comfortable testing in.
3. Proceed to examples/content/VideoContentWithFileExample.php

4. What Is Video Content?
Video content is content designed to facilitate the storing
and retrieval of video files. Natively, ProdigyView supports
webm, ogv, avi, mp4, mov, asf, and rm files. FFMPEG is
required for conversions. Examples usage of video
content can be:
 Youtube like Site  Conversion Site
 Video Documentary  etc
 Video Blog
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5. Extends Base Content
Like the other content types, video content extends base
content. This means it has all the fields that base content
has in addition to the fields that describes a video.
Video Content Fields Base Content Fields
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6. Create Video Content
Video content is relatively easy to create. In an array, passed
defined fields into PVContent::createVideoContent method.
1. Define the content that will be stored as video content
3. Return content id 2. Pass the array to PVContent::createVideoContent

7. Database View
Remember that the video content utilizes both the base
content and video content fields. This is accomplished
by joining two tables. Your two tables in the database
should look something like below.
Base Content Database View
Video Content Database View

8. Video Content
Fields
The previous slide only showed a
few fields that can be set when
defining video content. Here is a
complete list of fields that apply only
to the video content.
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9. Create Video Content with File
Similar to creating normal video content, creating video content
with a file is accomplished through setting arguments correctly.
In the example, we are converting video formats.
1. Name of the file 2. The location the file 3. The size of the file
currently resides
4. The type of file 5. Convert files to ogv and webm 6. Upload content

10. Database View
The video will be uploaded will be placed in the PV_Video folder
and a reference link will be placed in the database. Your database
should look something like this:
1. Auto generated random file name of mp4 file to reference
2. Auto generated random file 3. Auto generated random file name of
name of converted ogv file to converted webm file to reference
reference
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11. Search for Video Content
Using the syntax from the PV Standard Search Query, we
can search for content related to videos on fields for both
base content and video content.
1. Search based on the passed arguments
2. Pass args into getVideoContentList()
method
3. Returns an array of arrays that
contains the list of video content

12. Iterate Through The List
Next we can iterate through the list of video content to see
the data we just added.
1. Iterate through the fields base content
2. With the automatic joining of the tables, video
content fields are also returned

13. Retrieving Video Content
Video content can also be retrieved directly using the content
id. The data associated with that content id will be returned in
array.
1. Pass in the content id
2. Content is returned in an array
3. Get the values of the array by specifying
the associated index

14. Updating Video Content
That array contains the information for updating the video
content. Simply change a value at an index in the array and
pass it to PVContent::updateVideoContent() method.
Remember the content_id variable is required.
1. Update the data determining for the video length
2. Pass the array back to update

15. Deleting Video Content
The last action to take place is deleting the video content.
To delete content, we pass the content id into
PVContent::deleteContent method.
All the content types(audio, video, event, etc) use the
PVContent::deleteContent method. Associated files
will be deleted also.
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16. Review
1. Create video content by passing an array of arguments into
PVContent::createVideoContent()
2. PVContent::createVideoContent() will return the id of the
newly generated Video content
3. Search for video content by using the syntax from PV
Standard Search Query and passing those arguments into
PVContent::getVideoContentList()
4. Update content by passing an array of accepted fields in
PVContent::updateVideoContent(). The content_id must
be present for this method to work.
5. Delete Video content by passing the content_id into
PVContent::deleteContent().
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17. API Reference
For a better understanding of video content, visit the api
by clicking on the link below.
PVContent
More Tutorials
For more tutorials, please visit:
http://www.prodigyview.com/tutorials
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