[PHP] reading CD information
Is it possible to have PHP read cd label information? You know in windows like after you put in a CD and use Windows Explorer and go to your CD rom drive's letter it will say like D: (MSOffice2K) or D: (date of burned cd) or D: (XPProCD), etc...If you know what I am talking about, is there a way to have PHP read that cd label? Adam -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] reading CD information
--- Adam Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to have PHP read cd label information? Yes. I have never done this myself, but I know of at least one or two open source projects that read information such as that from a CD. They usually go one step better and communicate with opendb.org to get a good bit of information, such as genre, artist, album name, track titles, etc. You might want to just find an open source project that does something similar and see how they did it. Chris -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] reading CD information
Hi Adam, Is it possible to have PHP read cd label information? Where is the CD? If it's in the CD-ROM drive of the webserver: probably. If it's in the CD-ROM drive of a visitor to your website: no. Cheers Jon -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] reading CD information
It would be in the cd-rom drive of the webserver. The CD's would be rotated periodically and the only way I have to identify what is on each cd and which .exe to run on it is by identifying it by its cd label. I've searched google and php.net but haven't found a function that can read cd labels. Any help is appreciated. Adam On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Jon Haworth wrote: Hi Adam, Is it possible to have PHP read cd label information? Where is the CD? If it's in the CD-ROM drive of the webserver: probably. If it's in the CD-ROM drive of a visitor to your website: no. Cheers Jon -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] reading CD information
Hi,
Thursday, February 6, 2003, 3:06:29 AM, you wrote:
AW Is it possible to have PHP read cd label information? You know in windows
AW like after you put in a CD and use Windows Explorer and go to your CD rom
AW drive's letter it will say like D: (MSOffice2K) or D: (date of burned cd)
AW or D: (XPProCD), etc...If you know what I am talking about, is there a way
AW to have PHP read that cd label?
AW Adam
You could try the vol command using exec{} and parse out the volume name
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Re[2]: [PHP] reading CD information
Hi, Adam
TR You could try the vol command using exec{} and parse out the volume name
TR --
TR regards,
TR Tom
This should do it:
?
exec(vol g:,$result);
$label = trim(strrchr($result[0],' '));
echo 'Label is '.$label.'br';
?
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Re[2]: [PHP] reading CD information
Thanks Tom, that works perfect!
Adam
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Tom Rogers wrote:
Hi, Adam
TR You could try the vol command using exec{} and parse out the volume name
TR --
TR regards,
TR Tom
This should do it:
?
exec(vol g:,$result);
$label = trim(strrchr($result[0],' '));
echo 'Label is '.$label.'br';
?
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Re: [PHP] reading CD information
Guess it's not on Linux, eh? :)
Adam Williams wrote:
Thanks Tom, that works perfect!
Adam
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Tom Rogers wrote:
Hi, Adam
TR You could try the vol command using exec{} and parse out the volume name
TR --
TR regards,
TR Tom
This should do it:
?
exec(vol g:,$result);
$label = trim(strrchr($result[0],' '));
echo 'Label is '.$label.'br';
?
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Re: [PHP] reading CD information
Unfortunately not. I'm putting PHP on a windows 95 computer and the person will put a cdrom into the cd drive. Then they will double click on a shortcut that will run the php executable with script, and the script will read the cd label. depending on what the cd label is, it will call the correct .exe file on it to load the application. Its for a library and will be used by the general public, so I am making it as simple as possible :) Adam On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, John Nichel wrote: Guess it's not on Linux, eh? :) Adam Williams wrote: -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re[2]: [PHP] reading CD information
Hi,
Thursday, February 6, 2003, 4:49:23 AM, you wrote:
JN Guess it's not on Linux, eh? :)
JN Adam Williams wrote:
Thanks Tom, that works perfect!
Adam
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Tom Rogers wrote:
Hi, Adam
TR You could try the vol command using exec{} and parse out the volume name
TR --
TR regards,
TR Tom
This should do it:
?
exec(vol g:,$result);
$label = trim(strrchr($result[0],' '));
echo 'Label is '.$label.'br';
?
For linux you could read the header using dd
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