How to upload Video File using PHP?

[sridaran]

Hi Can any one tell me how to upload video files using PHP Script? Here is my PHP Code for image file uploading:<?phpif(isset($_POST['Submit'])){$current_image=$_FILES['image']['name'];$extension = substr(strrchr($current_image, '.'), 1);if (($extension!= "jpg") && ($extension != "jpeg")) {die('Unknown extension');}$new_image = $time . "." . $extension;$destination="uploads/".$new_image;$action = copy($_FILES['image']['tmp_name'], $destination);if (!$action) {die('File copy failed');}else{echo "File uploaded successfully";}}else{?><form method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" action="fileupload.php"><input type="file" name="image" ><br><input type="submit" name="Submit" value="submit"></form><?php}?>R.Sridaran

[Synook]

The process is exactly the same for any type of file - just change the extension-checking part of the code. Also, PHP has a size limit for uploads, which video files are more likely to exceed. That can be changed in php.ini.

[niche]

Thanks to sridaran and Synook. I'm going to need to write a files upload load script and this thread led me to http://www.w3schools.com/PHP/php_file_upload.asp. I might have found the tut anyway, but now its top of the mind. Thanks again for giving me a boost.Niche

[sridaran]

Hi I changed the upload file size as upload_max_filesize = 10M in php.ini file. But it is showing filesize as 2M while running phpinfo(). Now I am unable to upload files more than 2MB size. Any other solution is there?R.Sridaran

[justsomeguy]

Make sure you're editing the correct php.ini, the phpinfo page will list which file it uses.

[sridaran]

Thank you very much. Now I edited the correct php.ini file by checking the file path and uploaded the video files. Can you please tell me tha MIME type for video files(like image/jpeg, image/png...etc). I need to set conditions to allow upload for certain video files only.R.Sridaran

[Synook]

http://www.w3schools.com/media/media_mimeref.asp. Note that the script as posted originally checks the extension, not the Internet media type (which is not, technically, an intrinsic property of a file unless it is being sent over certain network protocols such as HTTP or SMTP).

[Sami]

If you're using a unix server, you'll need to restart the web server software before the changes will work.(sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart)