Torrent File Parsing with PHP

wh33t · 10-03-2010, 07:52 PM

Hey all,

I'm interested in making a small torrent site. How does one go about creating torrent files, and then parsing information out of them? Is it possible to upload a file to a server, and have PHP create a torrent for the file, or upload a torrent file and have PHP parse the information in human readable text?

Thanks for any tips in the right direction.

CapnStank · 10-04-2010, 10:12 AM

Hi wh33t,

Although I'm not able to directly answer your questions I can point you to a source that I used last year when building a tracker website.

http://phpbttrkplus.sourceforge.net/

This is an open source PHP based tracker that you can download and look at their code. I recall it being fairly simple so give it a try. It is a fully functional tracker running off the standard Linux LAMP.

Best of luck

wh33t · 10-04-2010, 03:39 PM

Thanks dude.

Does that php tracker just parse out torrent file information? Or is it a whole tracker system, like Btjunkie, thepiratebay etc?