service script and iNotifywait

[bixtool]

Hi All,
I have compiled a small script I would like to run as a service. The script is using inotifywait to monitor a directory. inotifywait has an option to run as daemon ( switch -d), but all output has to be redirected to a file (switch -o) so my code never executes. Any advise would be appreciated.

Here is the code:

<?php

require_once('/usr/share/php/PHPMailer/class.phpmailer.php');
include("/usr/share/php/PHPMailer/class.smtp.php"); // optional, gets called from within class.phpmailer.php if not already loaded
include("/opt/CouchPotato/scripts/resize-class.php");
include("/opt/CouchPotato/scripts/imdb.php");

date_default_timezone_set('America/St_Johns');

//watch directory /storage/movies

$watchedDir = '/storage/movies';

$in = popen("inotifywait --monitor --quiet --format '%e %f' --event create,moved_to '$watchedDir'", 'r');
if ($in === false)
    throw new Exception ('fail start notify');
while (($line = fgets($in)) !== false)
{
    list($event, $movie) = explode(' ', rtrim($line, PHP_EOL), 2);
    $isdir ='ISDIR';
    if (strlen(strstr($event,$isdir))>0) {
    // New movie directory found
     //imdb scraping

       $imdb = new Imdb();
       $movieArray = $imdb->getMovieInfo($movie);
       $poster_url = $movieArray['poster'];
       $img = 'poster.jpg';
       file_put_contents($img, file_get_contents($poster_url));

       $title = $movieArray['title'];
       $plot = $movieArray['plot'];
       $year = $movieArray['year'];

     //resize image for email

         $resizeObj = new resize('poster.jpg');

         //Resize image (options: exact, portrait, landscape, auto, crop)
           $resizeObj -> resizeImage(300, 400, 'auto');

         //Save image
           $resizeObj -> saveImage('poster-resized.jpg', 100);

     //email
           
       $mail = new PHPMailer(true); // the true param means it will throw exceptions o$
       $mail->IsSMTP(); // telling the class to use SMTP
       $mail->IsHTML(true);

       try {
          $mail->SMTPAuth = true; // enable SMTP authentication
          $mail->SMTPSecure = "ssl"; // sets the prefix to the server
          $mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com"; // sets GMAIL as the SMTP server
          $mail->Port = 465; // set the SMTP port for the GMAIL server
          $mail->Username   = "xxx@gmail.com"; // SMTP account username
          $mail->Password   = "xxxxxxx";        // SMTP account password
          $mail->AddAddress('xxxxx@xxx.com', 'xxxxxx xxxx, Esq.');
          $mail->SetFrom('MovieServer@localhost.com', 'Movie Server');
          //$mail->AddReplyTo('MovieServer', 'Movie Server');
          $mail->Subject = $title.' ('.$year.')';
          $mail->AltBody = 'To view the message, please use an HTML compatible email viewer!'; // optional - MsgHTML will create an alternate automatically
  
          $mail->AddEmbeddedImage('poster-resized.jpg', $movie, 'poster-resized.jpg');
          $mail->Body ='<DIV ALIGN=CENTER><FONT FACE="Impact" SIZE="+2">'.$title.'</font></div><table align="center" border="1"><tr><td><img alt="PHPMailer" align="middle" src="cid:$movie"></td></tr></table><br><blockquote>'.$plot.'</blockquote>';
          $mail->Send();
          echo "Message Sent OK";
          } catch (phpmailerException $e) {
          echo $e->errorMessage(); //Pretty error messages from PHPMailer
          } catch (Exception $e) {
          echo $e->getMessage(); //Boring error messages from anything else!
       
       }//try

     //clean up
       unlink('poster.jpg');
       unlink('poster-resized.jpg');

    }//end if

}//end while

?>

[divreg]

This might be more readily answered on stackoverflow. Only a handful of users here have experience with PHP.

This looks cool though. Might have to check this out. What's it supposed to do?

[andrew]

Yes can you tell us more about what your try to do?

[bixtool]

Hi,

My script notifies me by email when a new movie has been downloaded; sending the movie poster and other details (plot, year, etc).

inotifywait watches my movie path for new directories added and passes the directory as the movie name.

The movie details are then scrapped from IMDB (poster, plot, year), processed, and emailed via Gmail's smtp server to my blackberry address.

CouchPotato and Transmission queue and download my movies.

inotifywait has a daemon option, but it requires output to be directed to a file and so no code gets executed.

I'm currently running this php script in the background, with inotifywait using the switch --monitor, which is very similar to daemon mode. So In fact I don't really need inotifywait's daemon option.

I would like to create a service script to control this php process (start, stop, status) and have it start on boot. I've checked the wiki, but I'm in over my head. I couldn't follow other examples either. I'm looking for direction.

Thanks for the interest.

[bixtool]

I just discovered incron. This may be the solution.

[bixtool]

I've abandoned inotifywait in favor of incron.
For reference, easily watch directories for changes with incron.
Incron has it's own daemon, permits easily passing parameters and executing scripts.