How to use PHP as source of video stream? Created Oct 24, 2009

Flowplayer wants a URL, not a file. Research methods of having PHP dump the file to a temporary URL, and give that URL to Flowplayer.

Thank you! :)

The url to your php script is the thing to give flowplayer - it uses that to try getting the raw video data.

That php script should spit out the raw video data.

The following should work where $video_file_path is the path to your video on your server (header assuming it's an mp4 or so below...):

header("Content-Type: video/mpeg");
header('Content-Length: '.filesize($video_file_path));
@readfile($video_file_path);

Hope this helps!

jet7,

Here's an additional example. It's a minimal example I quickly copy/pasted from my working application that shows how to pass one or more params to Flowplayer and then pass that param to .php and have .php return your video URL to Flowplayer.

I cut and pasted pretty quickly and removed code not needed for this minimal example and I added comments for you.

HTH,

-JB

//play.php
<?php	// retrieve passed in querystring param
	$vid = (isset($_GET['vid']))? $_GET['vid'] : '';
	
	//do something here with the param you passed to return the full video URL to Flowplayer
	//i.e., you may have your video metadata stored in a database, xml file, etc...
	
	header("Location: $videourl");
?>

function playVideo(myVideoUrl) {
				//wmode setting is not relevant to passing params
	flowplayer("player", {src: 'https://www.example/flowplayer.commercial-3.1.5.swf', wmode: 'opaque'}, 
		
			clip: {
				autoPlay: true,		// this setting is not relevant to passing params
				autoBuffering: true,	// this setting is not relevant to passing params

				//optionally, for greater security construct the baseURL in your .php file
				baseUrl: 'https://www.example.com/phppages/',

				//this is the relevant line that indicates
				//how to pass 1 param to flowplayer with JavaScript
				//note that querystring must be escaped

				//hard coded param
				url: escape('play.php?vid=100'),

				//or use dynamic javascript param
				url: escape('play.php?vid=' + myVideoUrl),

				//how to pass in multiple params
				//url: escape('play.php?vid=' + myVideoUrl + '¶mName2=' + paramvalue2),

				scaling: 'scale' /this setting is not releveant to passing params											
			}
		}
	);
}

Odd, for some reason this line the ampersand and param name was mangled in my 1st email.

It should be..
//how to pass in multiple params //url: escape('play.php?vid=' + myVideoUrl + '¶,Name2=' + paramvalue2),

Hoepefully, it won't get mangled this time.

-JB

Thanks guys!

Got it working! :)

Jesus is the Lord. Amen.