webcam

Accessing your webcam via your browser used to involve a...pardon the profanity, a plugin. That's right. In order to connect to a webcam and gain access to its video stream, you had to rely on something primarily created in Flash or Silverlight. While that approach certainly worked for browsers that supported plug-ins, it didn't help for the increasing number of browsers that aim to be plugin-free. This inability to natively access the webcam without relying on 3rd party components was certainly a gap in the HTML development story. At least, that was the case until pretty recently.

How to Use Webcam In PHP: Here we will use the JPEG Camera script for the webcam functions to take the snap and save it. index.php

<script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.10.2/jquery.min.js"></script> <script src="jpeg_camera/jpeg_camera_with_dependencies.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Below the form we will put our webcam window to show the webcam screen capture. <div class="col-md-6"> <div class="text-center"> <div id="camera_info"></div> <div id="camera"></div><br> <button id="take_snapshots" class="btn btn-success btn-sm">Take Snapshots</button> </div> </div> Now it's time to process the image snap. Add this code to index.php :

<script> var options = { shutter_ogg_url: "jpeg_camera/shutter.ogg", shutter_mp3_url: "jpeg_camera/shutter.mp3", swf_url: "jpeg_camera/jpeg_camera.swf", }; var camera = new JpegCamera("#camera", options); $('#take_snapshots').click(function(){ var snapshot = camera.capture(); snapshot.show(); console.log(snapshot); snapshot.upload({api_url: "action.php"}).done(function(response) { $('#imagelist').prepend("<tr><td><img src='"+response+"' width='100px' height='100px'></td><td>"+response+"</td></tr>"); }).fail(function(response) { alert("Upload failed with status " + response); }); }) function done(){ $('#snapshots').html("uploaded"); } </script>

Now when we receive the success message, we will show it in a table.

<table class="table table-bordered"> <thead> <tr> <th>Image</th><th>Image Name</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody id="imagelist"> </tbody> </table>

You can also use getUserMedia in index2.php and index3.php