Inspiring Inspiration #10

10 years ago

A collection of cool video, motion graphics and interface design, mostly if not all from Vimeo…

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Uploading video from iPad to server with AIR for iOS

10 years ago

In this part 2 post following on from Record and play back video with AIR for iOS on iPad I will show you how to take your freshly recorded video and upload it to a web server using PHP.

Assuming you have a MovieClip or some other button labeled ‘uploadbtn’ you first need to add a click event handler to it to trigger the upload.

[cc lang=”actionscript3″]
uploadbtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onUpload);
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Now for the click handler:

[cc lang=”actionscript3″]
function onUpload(e:MouseEvent):void
{
// create a URLRequest for the PHP file on you server (we’ll get to the PHP later)
var URLrequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest(“http://www.yourdomain.com/uploadFile.php”);

// videoFile is a File object we created in the last post which references the recorded video
// attach the various listeners for errors, progress, complete
videoFile.addEventListener(DataEvent.UPLOAD_COMPLETE_DATA, uploadDataComplete);
videoFile.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, progressHandler);
videoFile.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, handleError);
videoFile.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, completeHandler);

// call upload on the File object and pass in the URLRequest
videoFile.upload(URLrequest);
}
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Now we can create the handlers for the attached listeners:

[cc lang=”actionscript3″]
function progressHandler(e:ProgressEvent):void
{
// just tracing the percentage of progress – you could show it in a progress bar
trace(“Uploading… ” + Math.ceil(100 * (e.bytesLoaded / e.bytesTotal)) + “%”);
}

function completeHandler(e:Event):void
{
// upload process is complete
trace(videoFile.name + ” has been uploaded.\n”);
}

function uploadDataComplete(e:DataEvent):void
{
//everything is complete, trace the message returned from the PHP script which is in XML format
var xml:XML = new XML(e.data);

trace(xml.message);
}

function handleError(e:IOErrorEvent):void
{
// simple error handler traces the error
trace(“Upload Error:” + e.text);
}
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That is all that is required for the ActionScript side of things. Now for the PHP script. This is a very basic script and you should provide some security and validation on any production code.

All you need to do is save this into a blank PHP file and upload it to your server to the location matching the address in you URLRequest above.

[cc lang=”php”]
OK$file_name uploaded successfully.“;
}else{
// create a failed message if something went wrong
$message = “FAIL$file_name did not upload successfully.“;
}

echo $message;
?>
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That is all that’s required to upload a video from the iPad to a web server. It is surprisingly simple for how hard it was for me to work out.

I hope this helps somebody out!

AS3 – Split a camel case string

10 years ago

This is a little helper function which takes a string in camel case (camelCase) or pascal case (PascalCase) and splits it into separate words. The capitaliseFirst parameter will capitalise the first character in the first word if the string is in camel case.