[Icecast-dev] Icecast and MySQL Stats

[Luca Cireddu]

Hi guys,
thanks for your answers...

My idea was to create a simple system that can be linked to radio schedule.
To avoid problems modifing a working code, I decided to do less
modifications as possible by simply adding a call to 2 functions, one to
add a listener and one to remove a listener. Using only 2 tables on db I
can obtain all informations.
One table, called "online", contain a "mirror" of the online status that
can be browsed in the admin section of icecast web interface. It is
composed by 5 fields: id, ip, agent, start and mountpoint. Each time a new
listener connects, icecast adds a record with a numerical ID, the same ID
used to identify the connection on the source code. The "start" field
contains the unix timestamp, filled by icecast. "Agent" is the user-agent.
When a listener closes the connection, my function remove the record from
the online table (using the ID to choose the right one) and put a new
record in the second table,  called "stats", which contains 7 fileds: "id",
"ip", "agent", "mount", "start", "stop" and "duration".
Many of the fields are taken from the online table, adding the "stop"
timestamp, ancd counting the difference in seconds to fill the "duration"
value.
Once you have data in the "stats" table, you can simply parse them with a
PHP page... You can order them by duration or start time, but most
important is that you can simply have the medium time a user stay online.
You can also have the medium calculated per-hour. You are also able to
exclude several IP address (local connections or relay servers).
All informations are directly created real-time by icecast itself, so you
don't have to query the server each 5 or 10 seconds. Using a DB, you can
also have different servers for streaming and stats, and if you like you
can simply integrate some information in existing web sites.
I made also few modifications to integrate mysql configuration params in
icecast.xml file.

About source code there is a little problem. I've start working on the code
on-the-fly because I thought to create only one file, so I'm not using any
of the versioning system like git.
How can I upload it? I think that the best solution could be to checkout an
existing repository and re-apply all modifications, but it may take a lot
to complete.
I considered to produce a patch using diff, but there are a lot of
difference becasue I needed to recreate some files using autoreconf.
I will upload a tar archive of my version as soon as possible in my
personal site, and I will share the link in this mailing list, so you can
start to take a look in source code.
I used SVN several times, but I'm newbie in git. :)
-- 
Luca Cireddu
sardylan at gmail.com
http://www.lucacireddu.it
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