php_quvi enable the support of libquvi in PHP.
libquvi is a small C library that can be used to parse flash media stream URLs. More infos on http://quvi.sourceforge.net/
First of all, you will need a full PHP development working environnement. You can check here http://devzone.zend.com/article/1021#Heading5 if you don't know how to do that.
Then, you will need the source of libquvi, available here http://quvi.sourceforge.net/, and of course, you'll need to build it before php_quvi.
When everything is ready, you can build the extension:
phpize ./configure --with-quvi make
And at the end, install it (as root):
make install
Add the extension into your extension enable list (or load it with dl() into your PHP script):
extension=quvi.so
If needed, restart your web server.
Very easy. Short example:
<?php $url = 'http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xgdy1i_birdy-nam-nam-the-parachute-ending-stranger-remix_music'; $mediaInfos = quvi($url);yy echo $mediaInfos['page_title']; // should echoes "Birdy Nam Nam - The Parachute Ending (Stranger Remix)" // show all available infos var_dump($mediaInfos);
Get all available formats for a media:
<?php $url = ''; $availableFormats = quvi_formats($url); // show an array with all available formats for the media var_dump($availableFormats);
Then, get a specific info from one of available formats (we supposed that we have at least 2 different formats in the array $availableFormats):
$media = quvi($url, $availableFormats[1]); // show all info for format $availableFormats[1] of media $url var_dump($media);
Complex example (^^) : use a HTML 5 player instead of Flash player:
<html>
<body>
<?php
$url = 'http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xjnhzd_kazantip-duplex-18-06-2011_music';
$media = quvi($url);
?>
<video controls preload="none">
<source src="<?php echo $media['link']['url'] ?>" type="<?php echo $media['link']['content_type'] ?>" />
</video>
</body>
</html>
How to set default format to 'best' available:
<?php
// For one video, you can use the optionnal parameter of quvi()
quvi('http://some.video.url', 'best');
// or if you have a lot of video, you can set the ini parameter
ini_set('quvi.default_format_request', 'best');
quvi('http://some.video.url');
(array) quvi(string $url [, string $request_format = 'default']);
(array) quvi_formats(string $url [, string $delimiter = '|']);
(string) quvi_version();
- quvi.default_format_request : define the default source format to request. Possible value : 'default', 'best'. Default to 'default' (lowest quality available).
- quvi.format_delimiter : define the delimiter of the string return by libquvi. By default, it's the character | (single pipe). This value should not be change while libquvi query_formats() return a piped string delimiter, but maybe this will change in the future ...
- (string) QUVI_VERSION : php_quvi version (ie: 0.1)
- (string) LIBQUVI_VERSION : libquvi short version (ie: 0.2.16.2)
- (string) LIBQUVI_VERSION_LONG : libquvi full version (ie: 0.2.16.2 on 2011-10-08 for x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu (in))
This extension is develop, build and test on:
Linux Fedora 15 x86_64 PHP 5.3.8 (php-devel.x86_64 / 5.3.8-3.fc15) libquvi 0.2.16.2 (quvi-devel.x86_64 / 0.2.16.2-1.fc15)
If you have success (or fail) with build on other environnment, please let me know :)
I've always want to know how to develop a PHP extension, but I've never found a nice and useful C library that need to be add as a PHP extension.
Then, I've found libquvi, an easy, small and useful C library.
When I've start this personal project, libquvi already has support for Perl and Python, but not for PHP. So, I said to me that it's very unfair, and I start this extension to give an answer to this problem :)
Win32 support.
Follow and add support for new libquvi development.
Recode the extension as a PHP 5 object, with keeping the existing working.
And yes, if you have the skill, help is welcome :)
Like libquvi, php_quvi is free software, licensed under the LGPLv2.1+.