Some basic findings of how all this works
After searching many pages finding little bits and pieces of here and there I thought I would try to figure some of this PLEX stuff out in a simple form.This comes from the need to have a PLEX client for my Popcornhour A-200 and not finding anything simple that I can muck around in.
So here we go for anyone interested.
I have a QNAP 809 pro, webserver, php and PCH. All the movies are set up on share called Animation.
The php script I have made up just reads the XML PLEX output and re-formats it into a listing of the movies. This files source can be saved in .htm format to the root of the share. The PCH A-200 can read this simple .htm listing and allow you to play a movie from the listing. Done.
Well kind of done. I plan to have the .htm automatically generated and saved to the share. I also plan on adding pages and more info from the PLEX data.
Here is the php code...
<?php<br />
<br />
$file = "http://10.0.0.7:32400/library/sections/1/all"; // set location of PLEX output<br />
$xml = simplexml_load_file($file) or die ("Unable to load XML file!"); // load file<br />
$x=0; // set counter index to 1<br />
foreach($xml->children() as $video){ // Gets the children of a specified node (Video)<br />
$c = $video['thumb']; // set $c = the PLEX video thumbnail<br />
foreach($video->children() as $media => $part){ // Gets the children of a specified node (Media)<br />
$a = rawurlencode(substr($part->Part['file'],44)); // Print the Attribute to the screen<br />
$b = substr($part->Part['file'],44); // Do a MID string of PLEX path and leave only the part we need<br />
if ($a == null){ // check if $a is blank<br />
// print nothing<br />
} else { // Print something<br />
$x=$x+1; // inc the index by one<br />
echo $x . ' - <a class="link" href="file:///opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/NETWORK_SHARE/Animation/'; // create popcornhour links (Animation is the PCH Share)<br />
echo $a; // $a = path is formated to be browser compatable<br />
echo '" TVID="Play" zcd="2" vod="">' . $b . '</a><br>'; // Close PCH linkput a return on the end of the line<br />
} // End of Else statement<br />
} // End of nested Loop<br />
} // End of main Loop<br />
?>
Feel free to modify or add whatever you like. I have tried to make this dead simple, to start.
