phpMyVDR is a PHP-based web-interface for the well known VDR project. But, why another VDR interface while VDR has its own OSD, and other projects already exist? I mainly work on gentoo and use VDR on a dedicated server (without monitor) and watch TV solely via LAN. Other projects had huge dependency lists and apache2/php was already present on my server. Therefore I decided to work on a small PHP based web-interface.

The current version allows searching for shows, adding and modifying timers, show search results as RSS and some more features. While there is still a lot of work to do, also on the security aspect (searching for possible injections), the interface is small and easy to set up.

• A webserver (like apache2)
• a recent PHP version with
• socket (connection to VDR via SVDRP) and
• sqlite3 (epg database) support.

Unfortunately there is currently no guided setup process. But, you just need a setup.php, setup.php.example is already present and only requires minor modifications to ensure the web-interface can find VDRs epg.data. Also the interface should inform about missing / wrongly configured parameters. If not, feel free to contact me so I can fix this issue ;)

To provide fast EPG searching, phpMyVDR scans your epg.data and puts the entries into a sqlite database providing a much faster access. As PHP does (normally) not provide background services, the process of converting epg.data to this database must be triggered from time to time using the EPG-Update within the main menu. Maybe there will be workarounds like cronjobs or automatically triggered updates in the future ;)

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