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

Question

I have following script: ``` function listFolderFiles($dir){ $ffs = scandir($dir); echo '

'; } 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?

Accepted Answer

```
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";
}
?>
```

Solution