[mrtechnique]

How would I be able to encrypt a video to where it can only be viewed when somebody purchases it. They also couldn't be able to save the video on their media player (i.e. Windows Media, Real Player). If anyone can help me with this, it would be greatly appreciated.

[Anthony:-P]

Hi,

This is, in essence, fairly easy.

Ok so, if you wish for them to download the file.

You have two files. The first being a script, which will query the database and check whether the user has purchased that file. If they have, the script will then continue to allow them to download it.

{ will post code for that when i get home, if you need it }

All you then need to do, is rename the script file to the file extension of your choice, i.e .xyz adn then name the .zip file to .php.

Then add an apache handler in cpanel as follows:

handler: application/x-httpd-php
Extension: .zip

Then that should do that.

If you want them to view the file online, with no download, then you could:

Have a dynamic page for viewing the videos watch-video.php?vid={id of video}

which gets the information from the database. So for now, lets have id and location within the database.

Id will be usesd to identify it, and then location would be the filename (ie. omg_amazing_video.avi) without the directory, and then when you echo it from the database, simply append /videos/ (or whatever your directory location is) before the filename.

Then, all you do, is query the database to see if the user has paid for it. If they have then show them it, if now error, or give them a redirect somewhere.

One last thing you could do is turn on hot link protection, and add the extension .avi (and any others you use)

Hope this helps, any problems feel free to reply/contact me :-)

Regards,
Anthony

[mrtechnique]

Anthony,

Thanks for the response. I definitely could use some help on this subject. I've seen some websites where I purchased a video for viewing and viewed in Windows Media Player and I've tried to save the video but the Save and Save As functions where greyed out. I've done some server side coding with PHP and MySQL, but nothing this extensive.