News & Updates
December
01, 2020 (1.0)
Release
of new, milestone version 1.0!
Major update to DirCaster by Chris Arndt - arndtc@gmail.com
- added these updates:
Added README.md and documentation.
Centered table to cleaned up the page layout.
Update getID3() library by James Heinrich to v1.9.20
(2020-06-30)
Updated index.php to use config_inc.php Updated
index.php table to add duration Updated index.php layout and
misc code cleanup Updated changlelog for HEAD to point to
git log
Fixed PHP7 errors
February 28, 2018 (9K)
DirCaster Version 0.9k - Swapped out getID3() library by James Heinrich to latest version (as of February 26, 2018) to fix metatag parsing errors
July 8, 2015
ALERT! We now have enhanced DOCUMENTATION!
February
1,
2013 (9J)
NOTE:
In
the file override.php – check location for jquery!
(Search file for the term "jquery" and read note.)
September
1,
2012 (9I)
DirCaster Version 0.9i
- Added "The Cloud Option" -
A method of allowing media files to be stored in another
location than in the DirCaster directory, for instance,
in a Cloud storage location, like Amazon S3.
This would also allow the use of Amazon Cloudfront
to better distribute media world-wide. The override
'.txt' tag [enclosureURL] DID
NOT WORK in
previous versions, it has been corrected in this
new (.9i) version. Added override '.txt' tag for
PubDate, to allow conrol of the date when a
media file is posted. Format must be in an
iTunes compatible string, such as:
Sat, 01 Sep 2012
18:37:48 -0700
NOTE: If
you downloaded 0.9i on the day of release, PLEASE re-download
to get the latest, greatest version NOW!
October
05,
2011 (9H)
Fixed an issue
that caused newer versions of PHP to break DirCaster's
ability to display the description of a file from the
later (new) version of getid3 (getid3-1.9.1-20110810) -
also fixed a date issue. Please be sure that the
timezone is specified in your php.ini, i.e. =
June
28,
2011 (9G)
Added logic to allow placing media files in a separate directory. Numerous bug fixes. Thanks to Lars Hermerschmidt!
January 1, 2010
We have removed the Discussion Forum... too much spam (again!)
October 1, 2009
Posted DirCastM3U as a Add-On for DirCaster users, see it on the Downloads page!
February 10, 2009
Posted PHPstream as an Add-On for DirCaster users, see it on the Downloads page!
February 09, 2009
Added logic to increase or decrease web server time by 1 hour. Can be used in case of bad web server times due to annual time shifts.
February 14, 2008
A new release for Valentine's Day! Enjoy! Fixed a problem displaying comments properly.
January 30, 2008
We have "re-opened" the Discussion Forum... here's hoping that we don't have as much problem with spam as before!
January 22, 2008
Don't forget to set up a .htaccess file on Apache for your DirCaster directory! We have added this info in the ReadMe.1st file:
...be
sure
to set up an .htaccess file in the directory (that
is a file that controls Apache, you can infomation
on it by Googling "htaccess")
The contents of the
.htaccess should be:
-----------------------------------------------------
DirectoryIndex dircaster.php
php_value memory_limit 16M
php_flag register_globals 1
AddType audio/x-m4a m4a M4A
AddType video/mp4 mp4 MP4
AddType video/x-m4v m4v M4V
AddType audio/mpeg mp3 MP3
AddType audio/playlist m3u M3U
AddType audio/x-scpls pls PLS
AddType application/x-ogg ogg OGG
AddType audio/wav wav WAV
------------------------------------------------------
(Without the dashed
lines) Alternatively, you can add these Mime
types to your web servers mime.types file.
November 13, 2007
ChangeLog
from
this release:
.
Jared Benedict - Item duration code modified
to handle media files with duration over 60
minutes. Henry made code more modular.
August 20, 2007
ChangeLog
from
this release:
. added
feature to allow setting enclosurePrefix variable
to allow Stats processing for external
providers like TechPodcasts and Blubrry from
Raw Voice Media.
April 9, 2007
ChangeLog from this release:
. added in a guid change to allow for multiple files
that had the same file date in the feed, and identifies them
as "false" for permalinks
April 4, 2007
ChangeLog from
this release:
. added a
test so that the ?ft=[filetype] would display ONLY
files that are listed in the "sftypes" list
March 29, 2007
Here's the ChangeLog from this release:
.
Revised item GUID tag to be more unique (user forum
request)
. Added channel keyword tag (user forum request)
. Aligned XML tag indent. Looks better when
reviewing raw XML
. Added parameter to allow the selection of a single
file type
dircaster.php?ft=[filetype]
Example:
1. The default is no change webroot.../dircaster.php
uses software define file types "(.mp3 .m4a .m4b
.asf .wma .avi .mov .mp4)"
2. Select all occurrences of a single file type in
the directory overrides file types in 1 above
webroot...dircaster.php?ft=mp4
or
webroot.../dircaster.php?ft=mp3
(no periods in front of file type)
Any one of the file types in 1 above can be used.
This allows the feed to store multiple types in one
directory, and allows the subscriber to select only
one type
January 11, 2007
Here's
the
ChangeLog from this release:
ChangeLog for
DirCaster Version 0.8a
Added logic to
obtain <item> overrides from a text
file. (See the override.1st file for
details.)
2007-01-09 Henry
L. Ratliff
January 3, 2007
Here's
the
ChangeLog from this release:
ChangeLog for
DirCaster Version 0.7b
Fixed the same
problem as "pubDate" for "LastBuildDate" in iTunes
Feed
2007-01-03 Dr.
Bill Bailey
December 25, 2006
ChangeLog for Version
0.7a
December 25, 2006
- H. L. Ratliff
. Fixed several
PHP Notice errors issued when error level set to
ALL
. Patched
occasion where single digit day in pubdate
sometimes
displayed for
example ' 1' instead of ' 01'. new function
fixDat()
. Substituted RSS
title tag value with file name when id3 title
value
is empty.
stripType() drops the file extension
. Corrected raw
'&' in RSS title tag (use '&' instead)
. Fixed variable
name error which caused, the logic to produce only
a set number of
feeds, not to work. Controlled by $maxFeeds.
December 21, 2006
Since I use the DirCaster Software to podcast all three of my current podcasts, and I know that there are a lot of folks interested in podcasting, and since I run my own web hosting company: Dr. Bill Bailey.NET, I thought I would "take up" the challenge of maintaining the software, and championing it's further development. I have asked Ryan King via his web site if this is OK, and if he gets back to me with a problem with this endeavor, I will gladly take it down.
I am EXTREMELY grateful to Ryan for initially developing this project and I know it is hard to "juggle" all the things that come up in life to continue to support the effort of maintaining an Open Source project. This is my first attempt, and I ask you to be kind and withhold judgment on my efforts until I can get the "bugs" out. Check out the "ReadMe.1st" file contained in the V0.6a Zip archive, or available HERE, for more information on the V0.6a release.
Contact Dr. Bill at: Dr. Bill [AT] DrBillBailey.NET
(Please replace the "[AT]" with an "@" sign. This helps prevent spam to our e-mail address... thanks!)