Answered How to display Related Video hosted on Vimeo

I'm working on a Video rating platform. Vowed to use MODx for it, so far so good. I'm working with Revolution 2.2.6 on an Apache development server.

I have the videos hosted on Vimeo but do not want to use the vimeo API. This is future proof: if vimeo changes the site would not have to be reworked. If vimeo disappears we will loose only the video files (without loosing out video properties, Hit counts, comments, etc)

I created a resource pay video and have TVs for Artist name, Video Title, Genre and Album cover. I'm using getResources to display a collection of the Videos and have getUrlParam to attach the Vimeo video IDs to the thumbs in display.

THE INTENTION:
When a thumbnail is clicked, it takes you to a blank resource that then loads the full video with related videos on the sidebar.

The black resource only works to hold the Javascript provided by Vimeo for Video integration.

THE PROBLEM:
I'm trying to use getRelated to solve the problem. First it didn't display nothing but when I selected a TV value on blank resource, it displayed the related videos but without the TVs needed for each (Artist, Title, Thumb, Video ID). The aim to have the related videos displayed like the initial thumbnail that bings the user to the current page.

More like the blank resource only retrieves the Video ID (using getUrlParam) and inserts into the Vimeo Javascript.

It's my first time with getRelated, how do I use it to accomplish since my blank resource holds no real site data, only acting as a loader? Or is there a better approach to what I'm trying to achieve?

Thank you.

[ed. note: ojchris last edited this post 11 years, 2 months ago.]

I've been able to get this to work to a degree. I eliminated the use of getUrlParam. The thumbnails now link directly to their respective pages but the related videos section on the sidebar is still not displaying the template variables of the related videos. Seems getRelated does not return TVs. Even with the returnTVs property, TVs are not displayed.

When I use the resource fields, the current page fields are rather displayed stead of the those of the related fields

What can I do without BobRay? Your assumptions were right. Now resolved.

Using this &parents=`19`, I guess the search will be restricted to child resources of the id 19?

That's right. I'm glad you got it sorted.