How to check a file is video type or not in php?

Question

I have following script:

function listFolderFiles($dir){
    $ffs = scandir($dir);
    echo '<ol>';
    foreach($ffs as $ff){
        if($ff != '.' && $ff != '..'){
            echo '<li>'.$ff;
            if(is_dir($dir.'/'.$ff)) listFolderFiles($dir.'/'.$ff);
            echo '</li>';
        }
    }
    echo '</ol>';
}
listFolderFiles('upload');

My question is I want to detect a file is video(mp4 or mov)type, How i can detect $ff is a video type or not?

You could use the `file` command, if you are on *nix. – Bart Friederichs Aug 19 '13 at 06:42 — Bart Friederichs, Aug 19 '13 at 06:42

score 10 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 22 '15 at 06:21

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    // Type contains video/mp4,video/avi,video/mpeg,video/mpg etc
    if(preg_match('/video\/*/',$_FILES['add_image_image']['type'])): 
        echo "THIS IS A VIDEO FILE";
    else:
          echo "NOT A VIDEO FILE";           
    endif;

answered Aug 22 '15 at 06:21

Web_Developer

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score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 19 '13 at 06:46

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if(end(explode(".",$ff)) =="mp4")
{
echo "its an mp4 movie";
}

There you go, for case insensitive version of the extension

<?php
$ff="abc.MP4";
if(strtolower(end(explode(".",$ff))) =="mp4")
{
echo "its an mp4 movie";
}
?>

answered Aug 19 '13 at 06:46

Hanky Panky

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And what if I uploaded `mymovie.MP4` ? – Bart Friederichs Aug 19 '13 at 06:47
you could simply add an strtolower check – Hanky Panky Aug 19 '13 at 06:47
And what if I uploaded `mymovie.mpeg4` ? – Bart Friederichs Aug 19 '13 at 06:48
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I hope you get my point. Checking the extension is not a fool proof way to detecting file formats. I could still upload a text file as `movie.mp4`. Use a tool like `file` instead. – Bart Friederichs Aug 19 '13 at 06:50
Yeah that makes sense, I agree – Hanky Panky Aug 19 '13 at 06:51

score 5 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 19 '13 at 08:09

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Use mime_content_typemime_content_type php.net

if (mime_content_type($dir.'/'.$ff)=='video/mp4')
    echo "its mp4";

answered Aug 19 '13 at 08:09

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score 5 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 17 '19 at 20:58

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I use this code:

$mimeType = mime_content_type(public_path('uploads/' . $file));
$fileType = explode('/', $mimeType)[0]; // video|image

if ($fileType === 'video') {
    // do something
}

answered Jan 17 '19 at 20:58

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Owen Beresford · Answer 5 · 2013-08-19T20:26:12.213

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Please use a tool like file. This answer is security aware, and a general response to uploaded file types. The second advantage to using file is it will tell you more detail about the format used. There are alot of combinations of formats that may be legitimately stored inside a '*.mpg' file. You may not be able to deal with all of them.

I did a more detailed websearch, there is a list of duplicate text articles, but no reliable solutions posted. There is a "magic bytes" detector in the form of fileinfo. This is compiled into most recent versions of PHP (its a standard extension).

NB: mime_content_type() is deprecated. Again, if you need to, try fileinfo

edited Aug 19 '13 at 20:26

answered Aug 19 '13 at 07:40

Owen Beresford

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The link to file is dead – Jan 23 '17 at 00:15
[mime_content_type](https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mime-content-type.php) doesn't seem to have a deprecated notice, and does seem to be listed as part of [the collection of fileinfo functions](https://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.fileinfo.php). Am I missing something? – Weston C Dec 14 '20 at 19:52

score 2 · Answer 6 · edited Jan 20 '20 at 15:17

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You can achive with preg_match

if(preg_match('/^.*\.(mp4|mov)$/i', $filename)) {
    echo $filename;
}

You can append another video ext like: (mp4|mov|mpg|mpeg|wmv|mkv)

edited Jan 20 '20 at 15:17

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answered Aug 19 '13 at 06:48

Bora

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score 2 · Answer 7 · answered Apr 02 '20 at 01:21

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You can also try this. Should be fairly accurate and performant

<?php 
 function isVideo($file) {
   return is_file($file) && (0 === strpos(mime_content_type($file), 'video/'));
 }
?>

answered Apr 02 '20 at 01:21

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score 1 · Answer 8 · answered Aug 26 '21 at 21:51

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I recently use this to get the file type i.e. image or video:

explode('/', $request->article_thumbnail->getMimeType())[0]

answered Aug 26 '21 at 21:51

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score 0 · Answer 9 · edited Oct 20 '14 at 07:40

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Get the mime type of the uploading file and check the type like below,

$mime = $file->getMimeType;
$videoJS = array('video/mp4','video/ogg','video/webm');

if(array_search($mime, $videoJS) !== false) {
    //do upload
}

edited Oct 20 '14 at 07:40

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answered Aug 19 '13 at 06:56

K. V. Suresh

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If you want any type of code quality, please do not rely on MIME type submitted by the client. Use `file` instead. – Owen Beresford Aug 19 '13 at 07:25

score 0 · Answer 10 · answered Aug 10 '15 at 05:12

$fileType = exec( 'file --mime-type '.escapeshellarg($filePath)); //e.g. output -> /tmp/somefile.mov: video/quicktime
$fileType = substr($fileType, strpos($fileType, ": ") + 2); //strip away file path -> video/quicktime
$fileType = substr($fileType, 0,strpos($fileType, "/")); //strip away whatever video type -> video
if ($fileType == 'video') $fileType = 'im a video!';

This code uses unix 'file' command with the option --mime-type to minimize the output for easier parsing. Not sure if there is a better way of parsing the output.

Also make sure you have read permission of the file you are checking.

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