How to install php_id3 on wamp?

Question

I have tried to find the file people are talking about namely php_id3.dll. I have read that you can install it with the id 3 on wamp but when i google it i get all sorts of scamsites.

Does anyone know where i can find it?

Wien

What do you want to install? No external libraries are needed to build this extension.: php.net/manual/en/id3.requirements.php – Draughtboard

@Jocelyn: You still have to build it. – Orangewood

The question is about installation, not about building...the question is very unclear to me... – Draughtboard

@Draughtboard well i get PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function id3_get_tag() in my apache error log and i went searching online and read about installing php_id3.dll, i have no experience whatsoever with these extensions... – Wien

Answer 1

All the information you need is in the official PHP documentation:

The error you get (undefined function) means the ID3 extension is not enabled in your PHP configuration:

• How to change configuration settings

If you don't have the ID3 extension file (it is probably named php_id3.dll or something similar), you must either find a place to download it, or build it yourself from source.

• ID3 installation
• Building on Windows
• Installation of PECL extensions
• Installing a PHP extension on Windows
• Downloading PECL extensions
• PECL Package ID3
• Building from source

Draughtboard

Answer 2

Download php-id3 from https://github.com/JamesHeinrich/getID3

Move it your project location, you require to include the file. Ex: require("getid3/getid3.php");

Sempiternal

Answer 3

A DLL for this PECL extension is currently unavailable. See also the building on Windows section.

Source : http://www.php.net/manual/en/id3.installation.php

Conceited

Answer 4

I was expecting something like apt-get install php5-id3v2, but this lib seems way to old and abandonned for that. It may still work, but is not very intuitive to install, for sure.

So I came up with another solution, which I found on stackexchange : https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/4961/which-mp3-tagging-tool-for-linux

I installed the command line tool id3v2, which does exactly what I need : read and modify basic tags (album, artist, title, comment...)

It installs with a simple

apt-get install id3v2

and is very easy to use. here is an extract from the man page :

   -t, --song SONG
          Set the song title information

   -c, --comment DESCRIPTION:COMMENT
          Set the comment information

note :There was also another tool I didn't bother to try, in the same post : "eyeD3"

Hope this helps.

Represent