MusicBrainz Web Service (v2) PHP class

This PHP library that allows you to easily access the MusicBrainz Web Service V2 API. Visit the MusicBrainz development page for more information.

This project is a fork of https://github.com/mikealmond/MusicBrainz which in turn is a fork of the discontinued project olds/phpbrainz (see the Network Graph). It takes some inspiration from the Python bindings

Installation

install Composer

Download the installer file in your project folder:

wget https://getcomposer.org/installer -O composer-setup.php

Review on Github if you which to know more about the inner workings of the Composer installer. The source is plain PHP. and then

mkdir -p bin
php composer-setup.php --install-dir=bin --filename=composer

Now just run

bin/composer install -vvv

This takes a while. Get a coffe or do some workout. When finished, open one of the examples in your browser: http://localhost/phpbrainz/examples/browse.php

Usage Example

With Guzzle5
(this is the default in our composer.json)

<?php
    use Guzzle\Http\Client;
    use MusicBrainz\Filters\ArtistFilter;
    use MusicBrainz\Filters\RecordingFilter;
    use MusicBrainz\HttpAdapters\GuzzleFiveAdapter;
    use MusicBrainz\MusicBrainz;

    require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

    $brainz = new MusicBrainz(new GuzzleFiveAdapter(new Client()), 'username', 'password');
    $brainz->setUserAgent('ApplicationName', '0.2', 'http://example.com');

    $args = array(
        "recording"  => "Buddy Holly",
        "artist"     => 'Weezer',
        "creditname" => 'Weezer',
        "status"     => 'Official'
    );
    try {
        $recordings = $brainz->search(new RecordingFilter($args));
        print_r($recordings);
    } catch (Exception $e) {
        print $e->getMessage();
    }
?>

With Guzzle3

<?php
    use Guzzle\Http\Client;
    use MusicBrainz\Filters\ArtistFilter;
    use MusicBrainz\Filters\RecordingFilter;
    use MusicBrainz\HttpAdapters\GuzzleHttpAdapter;
    use MusicBrainz\MusicBrainz;

    require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

    $brainz = new MusicBrainz(new GuzzleHttpAdapter(new Client()), 'username', 'password');
    $brainz->setUserAgent('ApplicationName', '0.2', 'http://example.com');

    $args = array(
        "recording"  => "Buddy Holly",
        "artist"     => 'Weezer',
        "creditname" => 'Weezer',
        "status"     => 'Official'
    );
    try {
        $recordings = $brainz->search(new RecordingFilter($args));
        print_r($recordings);
    } catch (Exception $e) {
        print $e->getMessage();
    }
?>

Look in the /examples folder for more.

Requirements

• PHP (5.6 or later)
• cURL extension
  install with sudo apt-get install php-curl

License

Short: Use it in any project, no matter if it is commercial or not. Just don't remove the copyright notice.

MIT License

Copyright © 2015 Mike Almond

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.