Read ID3 information in different directory

[Hug_It]

I'm having trouble figuring out how to get this class to read the information it needs from a directory other than the one it's located. The class pulls the ID3 information from MP3 files and works great as long as the files are in the same directory. How would I force it to look at files in a different one. Say in "podcasts/"?

class CMP3File {
    //properties
    var $title;
    var $artist;
    var $album;
    var $year;
    var $comment;
    var $genre;

    function getid3($file)
    { // read the ID3 or ID3v2 tag from an MP3 file
        if (file_exists($file))
        { //after verifying the file exists,
            $id_start = filesize($file) - 128;

            $fp = fopen($file, "r");
            fseek($fp, $id_start);
            $tag = fread($fp,3);
            if ($tag == "TAG")
            {
                $this->title    = stripJunk(trim(fread($fp, 30)));
                $this->artist    = stripJunk(trim(fread($fp, 30)));
                $this->album    = stripJunk(trim(fread($fp, 30)));
                $this->year        = stripJunk(trim(fread($fp, 4)));
                $this->comment    = stripJunk(trim(fread($fp, 30)));
                $this->genre    = stripJunk(trim(fread($fp, 1)));
                fclose($fp);
                return true;
            }
            else
            { // No ID3 tag
            	  fclose($fp);
                return false;
            }
        } else //the file doesn't exist
            return false;
    }

Thanks in advance for any ideas or code!

[marek_mar]

Tryed:

PHP Code:

$my_file = new CMP3File;
$my_file->getid3('podcasts/my_file.mp3'); 


??

[Hug_It]

Well I go through that class in a loop until all the files in the directory are read so I don't want to specify the exact file. Just the directory. Does that make sense? I'm fairly new at this so if I'm not providing you with enough info, I appologize

[Hug_It]

Maybe I should provide a little more code. Basically it goes through and lists all the files and echoes back the tag info in an rss format.

$dirArray = getDir("podcasts/");
while (list($filename, $filedate) = each($dirArray)AND $maxFeed > 0) {
	$mp3file = new CMP3File;
	$mp3file->getid3 ($filename);
	print "<item>\n";
	echo ("<title>$mp3file->title</title>\n");
	echo ("<link>" . $rootMP3URL . "/". htmlentities(str_replace(" ", "%20", $filename)) ."</link>\n");
	echo ("<description>$mp3file->title - $mp3file->album - $mp3file->artist</description>\n");
	echo ("<pubDate>".date("r",$filedate)."</pubDate>\n");
	echo ("<enclosure url=\"".htmlentities($rootMP3URL)."/". htmlentities(str_replace(" ", "%20", $filename)) ."\" length=\"");
	echo filesize($filename);
	echo ("\" type=\"audio/mpeg\"/>\n");	// Training slash for XML
	print "</item>\n\n";
	$maxFeed--;
}

print "</channel>\n</rss>\n";

// Functions and Classes
function stripJunk ($text) {
// Strip non-text characters
	for ($c=0; $c<strlen($text); $c++) {
		if (ord($text[$c]) >= 32 AND ord($text[$c]) <= 122)
			$outText.=$text[$c];
	}
	return $outText;
}

class CMP3File {
    //properties
    var $title;
    var $artist;
    var $album;
    var $year;
    var $comment;
    var $genre;

    function getid3($file)
    { // read the ID3 or ID3v2 tag from an MP3 file
        if (file_exists($file))
        { //after verifying the file exists,
            $id_start = filesize($file) - 128;

            $fp = fopen($file, "r");
            fseek($fp, $id_start);
            $tag = fread($fp,3);
            if ($tag == "TAG")
            {
                $this->title    = stripJunk(trim(fread($fp, 30)));
                $this->artist    = stripJunk(trim(fread($fp, 30)));
                $this->album    = stripJunk(trim(fread($fp, 30)));
                $this->year        = stripJunk(trim(fread($fp, 4)));
                $this->comment    = stripJunk(trim(fread($fp, 30)));
                $this->genre    = stripJunk(trim(fread($fp, 1)));
                fclose($fp);
                return true;
            }
            else
            { // No ID3 tag
            	  fclose($fp);
                return false;
            }
        } else //the file doesn't exist
            return false;
    }
}

function getDir($mp3Dir) {
// Returns directory as array[file]=date in newest to oldest order
	$dirArray = array();
	$diskdir = "./$mp3Dir/";
	if (is_dir($diskdir)) {
		$dh = opendir($diskdir);
		while (($file = readdir($dh)) != false ) {
			if (filetype($diskdir . $file) == "file" && $file[0]  != ".") {
				if (strrchr(strtolower($file), ".") == ".mp3") {
					$ftime = filemtime($mp3Dir."/".$file);
					$dirArray[$file] = $ftime;
				}
			}
		}
		closedir($dh);
	}
	asort($dirArray);
	$dirArray = array_reverse($dirArray);
	return $dirArray;
}

?>

[marek_mar]

The simplest anwser would be to change
$mp3file->getid3 ($filename);
into
$mp3file->getid3 ('podcasts/' . $filename);
You have to add the path to the file.
BTW there was an error in my last post.

[Hug_It]

Brilliant!!!

You know you look at something for soooo long and the most obvious things get overlooked.

Thanks sooo much!!!