Justin TV - Showing whether or not a channel is Live (Wordpress)

[stevetolley]

I have a stream section on my website (http://www.wasdgamer.com)

And in the sidebar I have a list of streams, I would like to add whether or not the stream is onAir/offAir, I have found the following code but would like to make the channel name a variable based on the stream title. (e.g. ../streams/channelname)
(this is in Wordpress, and I can't find any one else with the same issue)

$json_file = file_get_contents(“http://api.justin.tv/api/stream/list.json?channel=ChannelName“, 0, null, null);
$json_array = json_decode($json_file, true);

if ($json_array[0]['name'] == ‘live_user_ChannelName‘) {
    echo ‘Live stream is online!’;
}
else {
    echo ‘Live stream is offline!’;
}

If you understand what I'm asking for any help would be appreciated, if not let me know and I will try to explain better :]

[bgeorge]

Originally Posted by stevetolley

I have found the following code but would like to make the channel name a variable based on the stream title.(e.g. ../streams/channelname)
(this is in Wordpress, and I can't find any one else with the same issue)

I'm not really sure what you mean by that. Can you see if you can explain it a little differently? Do you mean when you do to "http://www.wasdgamer.com/streams/honcast/" you want to be able to set a variable to the channel name, "honcast" in this example.

If you are just looking to retrieve the channel title from the api you can do it this based upon what you already have:

$title = $json_array[0]['channel']['status'];

[stevetolley]

Basically, if you look in the sidebar, there is a widget with the channel names on, for each of those i would like it to display whether or not it is live, but I have only found a way to do it for ONE channel, not based on the multiple channels in the list, if thats any better?

An example of which is attached

Also I need it in PHP so I can place it within the Wordpress file,

P.S Thanks for the fast reply, this is really bugging me

[bgeorge]

Since you can't embed arbitrary PHP code inside a widget in Wordpress without writing one custom the easiest way I can think of doing this is by using a PHP script to return an image based on the whether the stream is live or not.

I wrote a quick script to return either an online or offline image based on the stream status -> http://pastie.org/2398357

Just upload that to your webserver and place an online.png and offline.png image in that same directory.

Then in the widget in Wordpress, you just need to add an image tag where you want the status to show up.

<img src = "http://path/to/script.php?stream=CHANNELNAME" />

Example: http://dev.btx.me/stevequestion/

[stevetolley]

Ok cool, if you check the website now, it recognizes the script and displays a picture, but how can I change it so it makes the channel name to match the title for instance, I tried...

<img src="http://pathto/script.php?stream=<?php the_title(); ?>"/>

To try and get it to take the title of the stream, but it didnt work?

Thanks for your help so far!

[bgeorge]

Thats not as easy to do since you can't use direct PHP code in a widget.

Edit: Oh and make sure you include the channel name in the <img> tag. You are using

<img src="http://www.wasdgamer.com/wp-content/themes/leetpress/streamstatus.php?stream=">

and didn't put the stream name at the end.

It should be, for example:

<img src="http://www.wasdgamer.com/wp-content/themes/leetpress/streamstatus.php?stream=honecast">

[stevetolley]

How come?

The widget is its own php file called "widget-streams.php" which it uses to display the widget

[bgeorge]

Originally Posted by stevetolley

How come?

The widget is its own php file called "widget-streams.php" which it uses to display the widget

Oh, you actually have a custom widget for that? I was assuming that you were doing static HTML inside of one of Wordpress stock widgets.

So you want to do something like this -> http://dev.btx.me/stevequestion/ <- basically?

[stevetolley]

yes exactly, atm the code for that category is as below

					/** Get stream from cat1 **/
						
					$query2 = array('showposts' => $number, 'nopaging' => 0, 'post_status' => 'publish', 'post_type' => 'streams', 'stream_category' => $instance['cat1']);
					$loop2 = new WP_Query($query2);
					if ($loop2->have_posts()) :
						
					?>
						
					<?php  while ($loop2->have_posts()) : $loop2->the_post(); ?>
							
						<div class="side-item">
									
							<h4 class="side-review-heading"><a href="<?php echo get_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h4>
							<span class="side-item-cat"><?php echo get_the_term_list( $post->ID, 'stream_category', '',', ' ) ?></span>
							
			<img src="http://thepath.com/streamstatus.php?stream="/>
																		
						</div>

[stevetolley]

yes exactly, atm the code for the first category is as below:

					/** Get stream from cat1 **/
						
					$query2 = array('showposts' => $number, 'nopaging' => 0, 'post_status' => 'publish', 'post_type' => 'streams', 'stream_category' => $instance['cat1']);
					$loop2 = new WP_Query($query2);
					if ($loop2->have_posts()) :
						
					?>
						
					<?php  while ($loop2->have_posts()) : $loop2->the_post(); ?>
							
						<div class="side-item">
									
							<h4 class="side-review-heading"><a href="<?php echo get_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h4>
							<span class="side-item-cat"><?php echo get_the_term_list( $post->ID, 'stream_category', '',', ' ) ?></span>
							
			<img src="http://www.wasdgamer.com/wp-content/themes/leetpress/streamstatus.php?stream="/>
																		
						</div>