php developer help required!

wonder_lander · 15 Feb 2008 at 20:49

Anyone able to assist me with a little project?

If you search for birdcam on the forums you'll know what I'm doing.

I have a folder on my dreamhost account which gets wmv files uploaded when a recording is made.

What I think I need is phptube or something similar to be ran via a cron job which will scoop up all wmv's from the directory they are created in, process them to youtube and then move them into a "processed" directory.

I have zero skills at this so am really looking for someone to either spell out exactly what I need to do or do it for me!

Any help is gratefully received!

wonder_lander · 16 Feb 2008 at 11:38

Does the lack of replies mean it's too hard to do?

dan0r2 · 16 Feb 2008 at 11:54

Sounds like you know exactly what to do already, and all should work fine.

If your webhost supports crontabs and has the phptube module installed. Do a php script to list all the files in the directory, pass each to the phptube function, once all done move the files.

Easy enough?

wonder_lander · 16 Feb 2008 at 20:04

I know what I need to do but have no idea whether the module is installed, whether I can get it installed or how to write a php script!

Sic · 16 Feb 2008 at 20:28

doesn't seem like phptube is a module. you'll need to have PEAR installed, and upload the phptube class. unfortunately, you probably won't find too many people who are willing to do things like this 100% for you. If it's something you're interested in doing, you'll probably have to do some tutorials

wonder_lander · 17 Feb 2008 at 15:07

OK sic, thanks for the feedback.

It's not something I'm interested in, it was just something to make the bidcam project a little less intensive on me!

Cheers for all the help.