Embedded Video

[Ell20]

Hi,

 

My users can upload videos to my site and stores the name of the video into the database.

 

Is there anyway in which I can create a series of links for each of the videos they have uploaded (I can do this with while statement) which when clicked opens a popup with the embedded video?

 

Ive had a look on around but couldnt find much.

 

Any help would be appreciated

 

Cheers

[stuffradio]

Try going to:

 

http://www.mioplanet.com/rsc/embed_mediaplayer.htm

[Ell20]

Thanks for the info but thats not really what im looking for I dont think.

 

[stuffradio]

Ok so I think I understand what you're doing.

 

Query the database and select the videos where the username that uploaded it is the same username.

 

<?php
$get_videos = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `database` WHERE `username`='exampleusername'"); // Replace exampleusername with maybe a value that contains a dynamic username. In the url you could maybe have a option that says user=username and then it would get all the videos equal 'username'

while ($video = mysql_fetch_array($get_videos)) {
// echo the links here
}
?>

 

Hope that helps.

[Ell20]

Basically I have this at the moment which prints out the links:

 

<?php 
$sql4 = "SELECT video_name, description FROM videos WHERE user_id = '$userid' AND validate = '1'";
$result4 = mysql_query($sql4);
$i = 1;
while ($row4 = mysql_fetch_assoc($result4)) {
$video = $row4['video_name'];
$description = $row4['description'];
echo "<a href=\"../uploaded_videos/{$video}\" title=\"{$description}\" target=\"_blank\">Link $i</a>"." ";

$i ++;
}	  
?>

 

This opens a pop up window which plays in Mozilla but not IE.

So what I think I need is like a YouTube kind of thing where its embedded into a page and it plays the video in a little pop up window.

 

Cheers

[stuffradio]

Ok sure,

 

in the page that gets opened up just use this code:

 

<OBJECT id="VIDEO" width="320" height="240" 
style="position:absolute; left:0;top:0;"
CLASSID="CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6"
type="application/x-oleobject">

<PARAM NAME="URL" VALUE="your file or url">
<PARAM NAME="SendPlayStateChangeEvents" VALUE="True">
<PARAM NAME="AutoStart" VALUE="True">
<PARAM name="uiMode" value="none">
<PARAM name="PlayCount" value="9999">
</OBJECT>

 

That embeds a video player in to the page. Just change the line

<PARAM NAME="URL" VALUE="your file or url">

change the value to the url of the video you're playing.

[Ell20]

I tried that but it still dosent seem to work in IE??

 

With this method surely it wont work as there are lots of videos uploaded thus the .html file is static with the name entered into the page?

 

Cheers

[stuffradio]

Ok so just check for the browser type, if the browser is IE than change the browser to Windows Media Player. Google Windows Media Player embed

[Ell20]

Surely even if I do that it still dosent solve the static nature of the html file meaning I would need a html file for each video uploaded!