PHP Extension for TagLib

[dayvonjersen]

Hello.

I've made a PHP5 extension which wraps certain functionality of TagLib
 (v1.9.1). The project is hosted on GitHub:

https://github.com/generaltso/taglib-php

It is my first C/C++ project and definitely is in need of additional
work on my part before it is resembling anything close to "production-
ready" or "finished".

However, it is feature-complete and fully documented at this point, so
I felt compelled to share. I would be honored if you would add it to
the list of projects on your project homepage :)

I am using it in another personal project of mine where previously I
had used the Perl and Ruby wrappers for TagLib, and in finding no such
equivalent for PHP, made my own. As such, it is heavily geared towards
my own use-case and may not qualify as a proper "wrapper" in the
traditional sense.

But for PHP, the only alternatives are
 - an outdated PECL extension with a lacking feature set
   (https://pecl.php.net/package/id3)
 - 2.1MB of PHP with unbelievably poor performance that's popular with
   wordpress users for some reason (http://www.getid3.org/)
 - calling various command line utilities with shell_exec() and parsing
   their output, which has its limitations and just feels like a
   security vulnerability waiting to happen...

So this extension might be useful for someone other than myself.

Also, I want to say thank you for making TagLib. You have made a very
well-organized, well-structured project with a very robust and capable,
well-documented, consistent API. Despite it being frustrating at times
to make sense of the ID3v2 spec while teaching myself simultaneously
C++ and how to use the PHP5 extension API, TagLib itself has been
reliable and a joy to program with :D

~ dayvonjersen