External gathering

livewir3 · Post by **livewir3** » Fri May 20, 2005 3:48 pm

Hi,

I have a question that I'm not sure has a specific answer or not. But here it is: Is it possible to gather external data, like the currently playing song for your server, for use in other sites like forums? It just seems like it'd be really awesome to be able to post the currently playing song as a signature.

Thanks-

Post by **Jay** » Fri May 20, 2005 6:04 pm

http://www.radiotoolbox.com/docs/faq/index.php?p_id=1#6

livewir3 · Post by **livewir3** » Sun May 29, 2005 1:55 pm

Wow, it pays to read those faqs. Thanks-- i got it all working and it looks great, only thing is that i can get it to imbed in a normal site, but i can't it to work with sigs for other sites. Am I missing a php tag to let it know what im doing? Whereas I can <img src> the php file in normal pages, when i try to [img] (or <img> where accepted) the sig in forums it just prints that text.

Post by **Jay** » Tue May 31, 2005 4:51 pm

that is because some boards like php look at extensions to varify it is an image. You will have to figure out some way to change the extension of the whatimplayin.php script to whatimplayin.png

you can read the docs at www.php.net to make a real simple change to the script to have it output a file as opposed to outputting to the browser. Then you can use an include statement in your catcher script to have it run after ever touch.

This is where I would like to go with this system some day but it has taken alot more time to get there. It is easy enough to change on your own though.