[Icecast] PHP Script to display Whether Stream Is Up

[Thomas B. Ruecker]

On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 12:45:40PM -0400, Daniel C wrote:
> I was wondering whether or not someone knew of a php script for Icecast2, that would allow me to display, in plain text to listeners, whether a stream was up or not?
> The script would somehow have to check I guess the xml file to see if a stream is online, display a message that the stream is online, and an image that says toon in.
> I could program in PHP, somewhat, but what variables would I use for these tasks?

Of course this would be possible somehow. But why reinvent the status
page? Oh and it can be customized in a gazillion of ways. Its just
simple xslt.

cheers

Thomas

PS: status page can be viewed by accessing icecast by a webbrowser
instead of a listener client.