[RELEASE] LastLib

[timROGERS]

Because I'm rather kind and all, I've decided to release LastLib, a music data fetcher that I've decided to tweak up. It was originally going to be used with me, Tom and Ryan's project called DiskDock, but that fell over so I might as well release this for free. Feel free to use it however you want :)

It should be pretty self explanatory. It fetches details of artists and albums from the social music website Last.fm. All the data is very accurated, and it is a big database with pretty much everything. All you need to do is call one of the functions, and it'll do it's thanggg! Enjoy! :D

http://cdn.last.fm/depth/footer/audioscrobbler_logo.gif


<?php
# LastLib
# by Tim Rogers
# with thanks to Ryan, Tom and Audioscrobbler
# library.inc.php
# REQUIRES SIMPLEXML (INLCUDED in PHP5)


function createXmlObject($url) {
error_reporting(0);
$xml = file_get_contents($url) or die("<span style='color: red; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px;'><b>ERROR:</b> Please try again later. Artist or album may be incorrect.</span>"); /* Get the contents of the XML file */
error_reporting(E_ALL);
$simplexml = new SimpleXMLElement($xml); /* Create a new SimpleXML object with the XML file */
return $simplexml; /* Return the object from the function */
}

function getAlbumArt($artist, $album) {
$artist = str_replace(" ", "%20", $artist); /* Replace spaces in the artist with URL encoded spaces (%20) */
$album = str_replace(" ", "%20", $album); /* Replace spaces in the album with URL encoded spaces (%20) */
$url = "http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/album/" . $artist . "/" . $album . "/info.xml"; /* Form the URL of the XML file */
$feed = createXmlObject($url); /* Create a SimpleXML object with the URL */
$arturl = $feed->coverart->large; /* Fetch the album art URL using SimpleXML into $arturl */
return $arturl; /* Return to URL of the album art */
}

function getReleaseDate($artist, $album) {
$artist = str_replace(" ", "%20", $artist); /* Replace spaces in the artist with URL encoded spaces (%20) */
$album = str_replace(" ", "%20", $album); /* Replace spaces in the album with URL encoded spaces (%20) */
$url = "http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/album/" . $artist . "/" . $album . "/info.xml"; /* Form the URL of the XML file */
$feed = createXmlObject($url); /* Create a SimpleXML object with the URL */
$datexml = $feed->releasedate; /* Fetch the release date and time using SimpleXML into $datexml */
$date = explode(", ", $datexml); /* Split the release date into time and date */
$datex = $date[0]; /* Only keep the first part, which is the date */
return $datex; /* Return the release date without the time */
}

function tracksArray($artist, $album) {
$artist = str_replace(" ", "%20", $artist); /* Replace spaces in the artist with URL encoded spaces (%20) */
$album = str_replace(" ", "%20", $album); /* Replace spaces in the album with URL encoded spaces (%20) */
$url = "http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/album/" . $artist . "/" . $album . "/info.xml"; /* Form the URL of the XML file */
$feed = createXmlObject($url); /* Create a SimpleXML object with the URL */

$tracks = array(); /* Create an array in $tracks */

foreach ($feed->tracks->track as $thetrack) { /* Foreach track in the XML as a variable */
$count = count($tracks); /* Count the number of tracks added to the array so far */
$tracks[$count] = $thetrack['title']; /* Get the title of the track and use the number counted earlier as the index in the array */
}
return $tracks; /* Return the tracks array to be handled */
}

function similarArray($artist) {
$artist = str_replace(" ", "%20", $artist); /* Replace spaces in the artist with URL encoded spaces (%20) */
$url = "http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/artist/" . $artist . "/similar.xml"; /* Form the URL of the XML file */
$feed = createXmlObject($url); /* Create a SimpleXML object with the URL */

$similar = array(); /* Create an array in $similar */

foreach ($feed->artist as $anartist) { /* Foreach similar artist in XML as a variable */
$count = count($similar); /* Count the number of similar artists added to the array so far */
$similar[$count] = $anartist->name; /* Get the name of the similar artist and use the number counted earlier as the index in the array */
}
return $similar; /* Return the similar tracks array to be handled */
}

?>

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Very Nice, +reppage