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Hi,

You can use a simple HTML form to upload files, and then use the id from the response to call addEntry. (this is the way the TestMe Console works).

However, this method is not recommended, as you will not be able do design the result page due to cross-site limitations.

So especially for this - we created the Simple Uploader Widget that enables uploading of files using an flash widget that will only contain the "Browse" button.

Remember to call addEntry api after performing upload.

Hi,
Iam a new member to Kaltura community.
I am facing issue with Upload API with my client integration.

I am looking forward to Upload mix and media files through my application.

The flow which iam following is :

1.Get the session using StartSession API.---- success
2. Upload media /mix ---returning "500 Server Internal Error..."

My questions are :
1.Is there any prerequisite to using UPLOAD API apart from StartSession API.

2.What is the flow for using Upload API.

I also used a simple upload html form . and used api upload method.
and then cal addEntry or addDataEntry method both works, but file not shown in account. new entry added to entry list but file doesont show there. Please explain why it happends?

Can you find out the specifics of the internal server error? You may have to look at the logs for your server...

Hi Guys,

The API provides form-multipart upload method.
That means that you need to construct a multipart request in order to upload the files.

If you use an html form (like in the above example), a multipart request is constructed for you when performing the submit upload action.
On other environments where you're not inside the browser or don't have multipart requests - such request should be constructed (as it is being done on the client libraries as well).

To sum it up, the option are as follow:

• Use html form to upload (limited by cross-site scripting, so you can't handle the requests).
• Use the Simple Uploader Widget widget to upload the files and integrate through it's APIs.
• Construct a multipart request in your programming language of choice (php, java, as3, flex and c# users can use the Kaltura client libraries).

Anyone able to get a purely html/php upload to work...ie upload to user and transcode to flavors?

I'm also trying to write html/php page, using the api to upload videos, but am having no luck so far. At the moment I'm getting an error 'Error while starting session for partner [100]' - but this is to do with setting up the session to start with rather than the actual upload.

Would be interested to see someone's code if they have got this working. If I can figure it out, I'll post the code up.
Cheers,
Alex

OK, I've got the session error resolved ( had the wrong partnerSecret).

So now I'm getting the error: "failed creating formpost data", from the code:


require_once('config.php');
require_once('client/KalturaClient.php');
$config = new KalturaConfiguration($lconfig->partnerId);
$config->serviceUrl = $lconfig->url;
$client = new KalturaClient($config);
$ks = $client->session->start($lconfig->partnerSecret, $lconfig->partnerId, KalturaSessionType::USER);
$client->setKs($ks);
$result = $client->media->upload('Web2Explained.flv');
print_r($result);


For info 'Web2Explained.flv' is a file on my (PHP) server in same directory as this script is running.

I don't quite understand what the parameter on the upload action should be. Should it be:
1) the form field name ( so referencing a file to upload from client terminal)
2) the path to the file on the (PHP) server, to be uploaded to Kaltura server
3) the binary data of the actual file

The API docs call it the fileName, but the type is given as file - so this to me implies that it should be the binary data, but the example that I've seen shows just using a filename (not the actual file data).

Any help much appreciated :-)

Thanks,
Alex

So with the parameter for the upload action, I've tried with putting the path to the file (on the PHP server) and I've tried using file_get_contents() to pass the file data, but neither of these produce anything other than the same formdata error.

Which leaves putting in the form fieldname, but I can't seem to get this working either.

Anyone have any clues for me as to where I'm going wrong?
Cheers,
Alex

After coming back to this again recently, I've not got any further with being able to upload using the API (as per my messages and code above).

Does anyone have an example php script with a working upload using the API?

Any help much appreciated,
Alex

I have upload working, but not using upload().

The upload() function expects an object, not a URL. And it further expects you have correctly constructed $_FILES. Even then, it gave me grief.

To get it working, I upload to a directory on the server, then call Kaltura to addFromUrl(), which needs a KalturaMediaEntry with the file name and media type fields filled in as the first parameter, and the URL where you uploaded it as the second parameter. In PHP, you must do a move_uploaded_file() on it first, to move it to your web-accessible dir, before calling addFromUrl().

This works perfectly for images, but I'm getting 404 errors uploading videos using the same code. I set the curl timeout to 600 seconds, so that's not it. You don't get much to go on:

2011-09-11 21:19:51 [127.0.0.1] [1866201788] [API] [kLog::log] NOTICE: curl_exec result [404]

I think the error is because Kaltura attempts to fetch it before it's there, but I haven't traced it all out yet. Any ideas?

Hope that first part helps, and if anyone has an answer for the latter part, I'm all ears.

Re: my post above

Videos are working. Remember to change php.ini's upload_max_filesize to something large enough to handle what you're uploading.

It made the flavors.

how to use Simple Uploader Widget and other widgets ....we are new to kaltura