API code for implementation on a music site.
//You can include this file inside your existing php code and just call out
//the settings before it or you can modify this file to fit your needs.
//All code provided here is custom made to the lyricsfly.com API interface
//for the XML data retrieved from the database.
//The code is freely available and no acknowledgment needs to be made on the
//html page itself. You must however follow the licensing agreement with
//lyricsfly.com API. Please see http://lyricsfly.com/api/ for more
//details on license and API documentation.
//
//Release version 1.2
//Added filtering for special characters
//
//Release version: 1.1
//Added url encoding of artist & title
//
//Release version: 1.0
//First version
//******** setings ***************************************************************
$user_ID= "[user ID key]"; //Set your lyricsfly.com User ID key
$artist= "[Artist]"; //Set the artist you want to find lyrics for
$title= "[Title]"; //Set the title for the song you want to find lyrics to
$song_number= 1; //Set to 1 if you want the first result or 2 if you want 2nd result and so on...
//******** setings ***************************************************************
$artist= urlencode(filterChar($artist)); //filter and encode for url string
$title= urlencode(filterChar($title)); //filter and encode for url string
$url="http://lyricsfly.com/api/api.php?i=".$user_ID."&a=".$artist."&t=".$title; //url construction string with pluged in from above values
$html=file_get_contents($url); //retrieve the entire xml page into string
$found_check= GetTag($html,"sg",$song_number); //get song data
if($found_check=="Not found") //check if song was found
{
echo "Sorry, lyrics for this title are not available in lyricsfly database.
"; //... if not print a message
echo "Please submit"; //and print link to submit form
}
elseif($found_check=="Wrong site ID!") //check if site ID is good
{
echo "Sorry, access to lyricsfly API has been terminated please contact the administrator"; //check if user ID access key is valid. Incase we terminate your site ID for any reason your users will see this message. You may optionally put a contact email so that you get notified by someone.
}
elseif($found_check=="Missing site ID!" or $found_check==FALSE) //check if user ID access key is missing and if the number of song titles is not passed the amount which was returned
{
echo "Sorry, the API code was not properly implemented"; //this is mostly for you. You should not see this message once your code is functioning properly.
}
else //finally, if everything check on we retrieve and print the data returned by lyricsfly database
{
$found_checksum= GetTag($html,"cs",$song_number); //get song checksum
$found_ID= GetTag($html,"id",$song_number); //get song ID
$found_title= GetTag($html,"tt",$song_number); //get song title
$found_artist= GetTag($html,"ar",$song_number); //get song artist
$found_album= GetTag($html,"al",$song_number); //get song album
$found_lyrics= GetTag($html,"tx",$song_number); //get song lyrics
$found_lyrics=str_replace("[br]","
",$found_lyrics); //replace all "[br]" with "
" for html page
$found_lyrics=str_replace("lyricsfly.com","lyricsfly.com",$found_lyrics); //add html for lyricsfly.com link back
echo "Title: $found_title
"; //print the title
echo "Artist: $found_artist
"; //print artist name
echo "Album: $found_album
"; //print album name
echo "$found_lyrics"; //print lyrics
echo "Fix above lyrics here
"; //create a link to correction form for users to be able to correct lyrics
}
function GetTag($p,$t,$l)
//GetTag function:
//p=page,t=tag,l=line,sp=StartPos,ep=EndPos
//Usage:
//$result=GetTag([link to page], [tag to get], [tag number to get]);
{
if($l==0)
{
$l=1;
}
$sp=0;
while($l>0)
{
$sp=strpos($p, "<".$t.">", $sp);
$sp=$sp+strlen($t)+2;
$l--;
}
if($sp-strlen($t)-2==0)
{
$GetTag=FALSE;
}
else
{
$ep=strpos($p, "", $sp);
$ep=$ep-$sp;
$GetTag=substr($p,$sp,$ep);
}
return $GetTag;
}
function filterChar($str)
{
//accept: letters, digits, spaces and )($^*=:;|#@}{][!.,-_\
//replace all others with %
$accept="/[^a-z0-9\\)\\(\\$\\^\\*\\=\\:\\;\\,\\|\\#\\@\\}\\{\\]\\[\\!\\040\\.\\-\\_\\\\]/i";
$str=preg_replace($accept,"%",$str);
return $str;
};
?>