My PHP is not uploading videos

Question

My HTML code is this:

<div id="videoinput" class="inputbox">
<form autocomplete="off" action="../upload/" name="textinput" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">
    <input type="text" id="videotitlebox" name="texttitle" required class="inputtext" placeholder="Title of video" />
    <textarea type="text" id="textdescbox" name="textdesc" required class="inputtext" placeholder="Description"></textarea>
    <?php
    require("../common/category.php");
    ?>
    <input type="file" name="uploadvideo" value="Upload video" id="videoupload" required />
    <input type="submit" name="uploadvideo" value="Submit" class="submitbut" />
</form>

My PHP code is this:

if (isset($_POST['uploadvideo'])) {
if($_POST['category']!="" && $_POST['category']!="selectcategory") {
define("UPLOAD_DIR1", "../uploadedfiles/");
$myFile = $_FILES["myFile"];
if ($_FILES['file']['error'] !== UPLOAD_ERR_OK) {
    die("Upload failed with error code " . $_FILES['file']['error']);
}
$info = getimagesize($_FILES['file']['tmp_name']);
if ($info === FALSE) {
 die("File is not of an acceptable type. Only .GIF, .JPEG,.JPG and .PNG files are acceptable.");
}

if (($info[2] !== IMAGETYPE_GIF) && ($info[2] !== IMAGETYPE_JPEG) && ($info[2] !== IMAGETYPE_PNG)) {
 die("File is not an image file.");
}
// ensure a safe filename
$name = preg_replace("/[^A-Z0-9._-]/i", "_", $myFile["name"]);
$temp = explode(".", $name);
$name = $_SESSION['user_id'] . '.' . end($temp);
// don't overwrite an existing file
$parts = pathinfo($name);
$id = $_SESSION['user_id'] . Date("__h.m.s__d.m.y__") . "image";
$id = md5($id);
$name = md5($id) . "." . $parts["extension"];
// preserve file from temporary directory
$success = move_uploaded_file($myFile["tmp_name"],
  UPLOAD_DIR1 . $name);
chmod(UPLOAD_DIR1 . $name, 0644);
$time = date("h:i:s");
$mydate=getdate(date("U"));
$date = "$mydate[year].$mydate[mon].$mydate[mday]";

$title = $_POST['texttitle'];
$category = $_POST['category'];
$description = $_POST['textdesc'];

$sql = "INSERT INTO uploads(title, category, description, path, id, time, date, username, datetime, type)
                 VALUES (:title, :category, :description, :path, :id, :time, :date, :user, :datetime, :type)";
$query = $conn->prepare($sql);
$query->execute(array(':title'=>$title, ':category'=>$category, ':description'=>$description, ':path'=>$name, ':id'=>$id, ':time'=>$time, ':date'=>$date, ':user'=>$_SESSION['user_id'], ':datetime'=>$date . " " .     $time, ':type'=>"image") );
echo "Success.";
header('Location: ../home/');
}
else {
}
}

Problem is that my code never even gets to the third line. As soon as the code starts, it dies because of the first if which goes "$_FILES['file']['error'] !== UPLOAD_ERR_OK".

Why is this happening? How do I upload the video?

Any other suggestions to clean up my PHP code is much appreciated.

Could you possibly indent your code? It makes it easier to debug. — ʰᵈˑ, Jun 27 '16 at 14:55
possible duplicate of [PHP: “Notice: Undefined variable” and “Notice: Undefined index”](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4261133/php-notice-undefined-variable-and-notice-undefined-index) — Funk Forty Niner, Jun 27 '16 at 14:57

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 27 '16 at 14:56

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Spot the differences:

<input type="file" name="uploadvideo" value="Upload video" id="videoupload" required />
                         ^^^^^^^^^^^

$myFile = $_FILES["myFile"];
                   ^^^^^^
if ($_FILES['file']['error'] !== UPLOAD_ERR_OK) {
            ^^^^^^

answered Jun 27 '16 at 14:56

Marc B

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Should this have been a comment? `:)` Close as typo? – Praveen Kumar Purushothaman Jun 27 '16 at 14:56
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@PraveenKumar Oh, you mean [*this?...*](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38057148/my-php-is-not-uploading-videos#comment63552856_38057148) haha – Funk Forty Niner Jun 27 '16 at 14:57
Thanks a lot. I tried this. But still throws an error it refuses to show me. – Yash Sharma Jun 27 '16 at 15:02
what kind of videos are you uploading anyways? getimagesize() is utterly useless if you're uploading mp4/mkv/avi/etc... it only handles the gif/jpg/png/etc.. standard IMAGE types, not videos. – Marc B Jun 27 '16 at 15:04
Nope I got it. It's working. Thanks. – Yash Sharma Jun 27 '16 at 15:04

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