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**oesxyl** · Apr 13, 2009, 12:20 PM

Originally posted by Mark P View Post

Hello, I need to make a 'now playing' banner which pulls information from an internet radio. The banner will show the song/dj playing etc.
As far as Im aware the banner needs to be built in php & I havent been able to find any more information on the subject.
The information will be pulled from a source like this for e.g http://204.162.193.507:8000/listen
Any help would be great appreciated

Thanks

your link don't work for me.

best regards

**Mark P** · Apr 13, 2009, 01:13 PM

Hello, no thats just a dummy link to show the kind of stream format the information will be coming from

**oesxyl** · Apr 13, 2009, 01:30 PM

Originally posted by Mark P View Post

Hello, no thats just a dummy link to show the kind of stream format the information will be coming from

it's not clear for me what you want and I'm not sure that this will help you, but I guess is something like this:

http://dir.xiph.org/index.php

you probably must search for help on the icecast server site:

http://www.icecast.org/docs.php

best regards

**diload** · Apr 13, 2009, 01:37 PM

hmm i do understan dwhat he wants but i dont know how to do it since ive never worked with that kind before ... sorry ...

**Mark P** · Apr 13, 2009, 02:07 PM

Hi, thanks for the replies.
I found this php code that does what I want, but couldnt seem to get it to work.

<?php
// Ruff Dawg's 'Now Playing Sig w/ Background v. 1.2 April 7, 2004
// Special thanks to the origionator, DJ Rampage

// This image you can call immediately from an html file in the image tag
// (i.e. <img src="black.php"> ) easy huh?

// If you wish to put song/artist in this format: 'artist - song'
// please use the code at www.ruffdawgradio.com/sig2lines.phps

Header("Content-type: image/png");

//*Picture File*//

// Replace "sicpic.png" with your picture file (must be a .png)

$im = imagecreatefrompng("np1.png");

//*Host Information*//

$host = "rdr.zapto.org"; // No 'http://' in the host
$port = "8000";

//*Don't Touch This Stuff Unless You know What You're Doing*//

$fp = fsockopen("$host", $port, &$errno, &$errstr, 30);
if(!$fp) {
$success=2;
}
if($success!=2){ //if connection
fputs($fp,"GET /7.html HTTP/1.0\r\nUser-Agent: XML Getter (Mozilla Compatible)\r\n\r\n");
while(!feof($fp)) {
$page .= fgets($fp, 1000);
}
fclose($fp);
$page = ereg_replace(".*<body>", "", $page); //extract data
$page = ereg_replace("</body>.*", ",", $page); //extract data
$numbers = explode(",",$page);
$currentlisteners=$numbers[0];
$connected=$numbers[1];
if($connected==1)
$wordconnected="yes";
else
$wordconnected="no";
$peaklisteners=$numbers[2];
$maxlisteners=$numbers[3];
$reportedlisteners=$numbers[4];
}

//*Text Colors*//

// text colors are in RGB

$text_color1 = ImageColorAllocate($im,0,153,255);
$text_color2 = ImageColorAllocate($im,0,153,255);

if($success!=2 && $connected==1){

$song=explode(" - ",$numbers[6]);

//*Text Strings*//

$string1= $song[0];
$string2= $song[1];
}

// These strings below can be repalced with your own ideas

else {
$string1= "Ruff Dawg Radio is:";
$string2= "Temporarily Offline";
}

//*Text Positioning*//

// image,font (from 1 to 5),starting x position, y position,line of text,color

$px = (imagesx($im)-5*strlen($string1))/2;
ImageString($im,3,78,24,$string1,$text_color1);
$px = (imagesx($im)-5*strlen($string2))/2;
ImageString($im,3,78,44,$string2,$text_color1);

ImagePng($im);
imagedestroy($im);
?>

Im wondering if theres an easier way to pull the title info from the stream & display it in a graphic?

**oesxyl** · Apr 13, 2009, 02:22 PM

Originally posted by Mark P View Post

Hi, thanks for the replies.
I found this php code that does what I want, but couldnt seem to get it to work.

PHP Code:


<?php

// Ruff Dawg's 'Now Playing Sig w/ Background v. 1.2 April 7, 2004

// Special thanks to the origionator, DJ Rampage



// This image you can call immediately from an html file in the image tag

// (i.e. <img src="black.php"> )    easy huh?



// If you wish to put song/artist in this format: 'artist - song'

// please use the code at [url]www.ruffdawgradio.com/sig2lines.phps[/url]



    Header("Content-type: image/png");



//*Picture File*//



// Replace "sicpic.png" with your picture file (must be a .png)



    $im = imagecreatefrompng("np1.png");



//*Host Information*//



    $host = "rdr.zapto.org"; // No 'http://' in the host

    $port = "8000";





//*Don't Touch This Stuff Unless You know What You're Doing*//



    $fp = fsockopen("$host", $port, &$errno, &$errstr, 30);

    if(!$fp) {

        $success=2;

    }

    if($success!=2){ //if connection

        fputs($fp,"GET /7.html HTTP/1.0\r\nUser-Agent: XML Getter (Mozilla Compatible)\r\n\r\n");

        while(!feof($fp)) {

            $page .= fgets($fp, 1000);

        }

        fclose($fp);

        $page = ereg_replace(".*<body>", "", $page); //extract data

        $page = ereg_replace("</body>.*", ",", $page); //extract data

        $numbers = explode(",",$page);

        $currentlisteners=$numbers[0];

        $connected=$numbers[1];

        if($connected==1)

            $wordconnected="yes";

        else

            $wordconnected="no";

        $peaklisteners=$numbers[2];

        $maxlisteners=$numbers[3];

        $reportedlisteners=$numbers[4];

    }



//*Text Colors*//



// text colors are in RGB



    $text_color1 = ImageColorAllocate($im,0,153,255);

    $text_color2 = ImageColorAllocate($im,0,153,255);

    

    if($success!=2 && $connected==1){

        

    $song=explode(" - ",$numbers[6]);





//*Text Strings*//





        $string1= $song[0];

        $string2= $song[1];

    }



// These strings below can be repalced with your own ideas



    else {

        $string1= "Ruff Dawg Radio is:";

$string2= "Temporarily Offline";

    }





//*Text Positioning*//



// image,font (from 1 to 5),starting x position, y position,line of text,color



    $px = (imagesx($im)-5*strlen($string1))/2;

    ImageString($im,3,78,24,$string1,$text_color1);

    $px = (imagesx($im)-5*strlen($string2))/2;

    ImageString($im,3,78,44,$string2,$text_color1);



    ImagePng($im);

    imagedestroy($im);

?>

Im wondering if theres an easier way to pull the title info from the stream & display it in a graphic?

please put the code between [ php] and [ /php] tags,

the biggest part of the code in this script is to create a picture. The rest, between "//*Don't Touch This Stuff Unless You know What You're Doing*//" and "//*Text Colors*//" is the detection part, probably by fetching a list from the streaming server, I'm not sure.
Probably the simplest way to achive this is using a HEAD request to the streaming server, checking if the response is Ok and assume that is onair if server is online.

best regards

**Mark P** · Apr 15, 2009, 08:53 AM

hi guys, thanks for the replies.
one of the problems for me is i dont know how to display this php segment within my html page.
ive created an iframe & pointed it to this php file on my server but it doesnt seem to work. am i doing it right?
thanks

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