Hi,

I got this piece of code that displays all the .flv files in a certain folder as links to download them. I also have code which displays an embedded video player however a static link to the video is used.

Can someone please help me link these two codes together so that when the link of a video in the first piece of code is clicked it will take it to the embedded video player page and play the appropriate video. I would imagine this involves passing the .flv file location into the href but I am a total noob so don't know how to!

I've been told to pass reference the video I want to play in a URL query string (e.g. "videoplayer.php?video=myvideo") and also use the $_GET function in the video player script. Can anyone tell me how to do this exactly (i.e. what code to include and where)?

Please help if you can. Thanks.

Displays all .flv files currently in the folder:

<?php   $current_dir = "includes/videos/";    // Location to read files from.   $dir = opendir($current_dir);        // Opens the directory.    echo ("<p><h1>Video Tutorials:</h1></p><hr><br />");   while ($file = readdir($dir))            // while loop     {     $parts = explode(".", $file);                    // pull apart the name and dissect by period     if (is_array($parts) && count($parts) > 1) {    // does the dissected array have more than one part         $extension = end($parts);        // set to we can see last file extension         if ($extension == "flv"){    // Set allowable file extensions.              echo "<a href=\"$current_dir/$file\" target=\"_blank\"> $file </a><br />";    // Link to location of video.         }        }     }   echo "<hr><br />";   closedir($dir);        // Close the directory. ?> </body> </html>/CODE]

Embedded video player:

[CODE]<html> <head>     <title>Videos</title>     <script src="flowplayer/example/flowplayer-3.1.4.min.js"></script> </head> <body>  <a     href="includes/videos/testflash.flv"     style="display:block;width:425px;height:300px;"     id="player"> </a>  <script language="JavaScript">     flowplayer("player", "flowplayer/flowplayer-3.1.5.swf"); </script> </body> </html>

    <a href=videoplayer.php?video=myvideo>link</a> is the link and myvideo would be the filename without the extension. This would be on the first page.

    On videoplayer.php:

    At the top add"

    <?php

$video = $_GET['video'];

?>

    And then call the player(assuming the player is already working) wherever you want it:

    
<a     href="includes/videos/[COLOR="Red"]<?php echo($video); ?>.flv[/COLOR]"     style="display:block;width:425px;height:300px;"     id="player"> </a>  <script language="JavaScript">     flowplayer("player", "flowplayer/flowplayer-3.1.5.swf"); </script>

      If you wanted to modify existing code, you'd change this line

      echo "<a href=\"$current_dir/videoplayer.php?video=$file\" target=\"_blank\"> $file </a><br />"; // Link to location of video.

      And then modify my previous post since we'd be passing the file extension:

      <a     href="includes/videos/<?php echo($video); ?>"     style="display:block;width:425px;height:300px;"     id="player"> </a>  <script language="JavaScript">     flowplayer("player", "flowplayer/flowplayer-3.1.5.swf"); </script>

        You are the man ccd4599! 🙂

        Works perfectly, thank you very much for your quick response.

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