Yet another 'Recent Tracks'-script in PHP

dukny said:
thanks mark2003
but, cache is empty! perhaps, file_get_contents disabled
any idea??


well your "recenttracks.xml" file on lastfm is empty. nothing the script can do about that!! just scrobble some more tracks and fill it up again. or maybe lastfm is a little behind and it's temporarily not showing your recent suubmissions?

the code i posted certainly works on my username at this minute in time....



i'm also using the same, albeit slightly more advanced code for my signature.

oops, you need php5 to use the simplexml function.

to parse xml using php4, take a look at the wiki. there are quite a few examples there to get you going. :)

http://www.audioscrobbler.net/wiki/

jye said:
But I still have a cache file empty.. where's the matter ?

saves me typing it again. copy/pasted from above... :p

marc2003 said:

well your "recenttracks.xml" file on lastfm is empty. nothing the script can do about that!! just scrobble some more tracks and fill it up again. or maybe lastfm is a little behind and it's temporarily not showing your recent suubmissions?


try another username and you can see it working. :)

edit: you've barely scrobbled any tracks this week.

no problems with that userid running the script on my server. i've not changed a single thing from what you posted above....

http://merrydown.dyndns.org/temp/new.php

maybe it's a permissions issue? the script will need write access to the server to create the local xml file? maybe you can test simplexml is working by bypassing the caching for now and reading directly from lastfm?

try this....


<?php
$user = 'xcuntx';
$remotefile = "http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/user/$user/recenttracks.xml";;
$xml = @simplexml_load_file($remotefile);
for ($t = 0; $t <= 9; $t++) {
echo "<li>".$xml->track[$t]->artist." - ".$xml->track[$t]->name."</li>";
}
?>

I made some test and it seems like if I try to access to a copy of the audioscrobbler xml file I made on an other server it works. But it doesnt works for xml file from audioscrobbler really strange...

Maybe I'm blacklisted...

astoever said:
@moe2i6: The script is intended to use in conjunction with a webpage. You need a site that supports PHP and then include the script where you want the Last.FM info to be displayed. Like with PHP you'd write <? include 'scriptname'; ?> in the page you'd want it running. You can see it in action on http://www.astoever.no


FIRST:
I don't see any 'Recent Tracks' listed at the URI you provided: http://www.astoever.no

SECOND:
When you give the example of <? include 'scriptname'; ?> what do I put in for 'scriptname'?

Thanks.

I wanted "time x ago"-timestamp, so I did one. I'm not good at php but here's the result:


$trackArray = explode(",", $track[$i]);

$entry = explode("?", $trackArray[1]);

echo "<li class=\"song\"><span class=\"artist\">".$entry[0]."</span><br /><span class=\"title\">".$entry[1]."</li>";

$now = time();
$played = date($trackArray[0]);
$lastplayed = $now - $played;

$minutes = $lastplayed / 60;
$hours = $lastplayed / 3600;
$days = $lastplayed / 86400;

if ($minutes > 60) {

if (round($hours, 0) == "1") {
echo "<br /><span class=\"time\">".round($hours, 0)." hour ago</span></li>";
} else { echo "<br /><span class=\"time\">".round($hours, 0)." hours ago</span></li>"; }

} else {
echo "<br /><span class=\"time\">".round($minutes, 0)." minutes ago</span></li>";
}
if ($hours > 24) {

if (round($days, 0) == "1") {
echo "<br /><span class=\"time\">".round($days, 0)." day ago</span></li>";
} else { echo "<br /><span class=\"time\">".round($days, 0)." days ago</span></li>"; }

}

// $timestamp = date('j. n. Y, H:i:s',$trackArray[0]);
}
echo $wrapperEnd;
}

(if you want to try, replace this with the end of the code; note "echo $wrapperEnd; -> replace the original ending with this...)

the Code is yet under construction. I'll develop it a bit but yet decided to tell this...

Btw what's the point with question marks between the artist and song (for example "Dream Theater ? Octavarium"). I split those because I wanted them to be on different lines.

I also have band-artwork but that aint gonna tell you (yet) :)

What do you think?
Seems to work for me for now.

You can use PHP4 and parse plaintext or xml manually (using explode, substr and strpos).

I have my own image charts for last.fm (here - http://i0ngunn3r.livejournal.com/profile), and I'm using plaintext.

I can share code with you %)

Hi good job on the script. I would like to adapt it so I can do something useful with the data. Can you point me in the right direction of how to make it $_POST able?