# Blosxom Plugin: nowplaying
# Author(s): Terrence Yu
# Version: 0.1

# Used in conjuction with Brandon Fuller's Now Playing plugin
# for iTunes for Windows (http://brandon.fuller.name/archives/hacks/nowplaying/).
# This will populate $nowplaying::nowplaying with a list of the last songs played
# in iTunes as well as the artist's name.

package nowplaying;

# --- Configurable variables -----

# Filename including full path to file
my $filename = "/home/tyua/pub_html/blog/now_playing.xml";

# --------------------------------

use CGI qw/:standard/;
use FileHandle;

sub start {

  $nowplaying .= "<dl class=\"nowplaying\">\n";
  
  # Read the now_playing.xml file
  open(NOWPLAYING, "$filename") || die "Can't open $filename: $!";
  do {$nowplaying_data .= <NOWPLAYING>} until eof(NOWPLAYING);
  close(NOWPLAYING);
  chomp($nowplaying_data);
  
  # Put each song's data into an array
  my @songs = split /<\/song>/, $nowplaying_data;
  
  # Get rid of last </now_playing> bit
  pop(@songs);
	
  foreach my $song_data (@songs) {
 
    my $np_title, my $np_artist;
 
    if ($song_data =~ /<title>([^<]+)<\/title>/) {
      $np_title = "$1";
    }
    
    if ($song_data =~ /<artist>([^<]+)<\/artist>/) {
      $np_artist = "$1";
    }
    
    $nowplaying .= "  <dt>$np_title<\/dt>\n  <dd>$np_artist<\/dd>\n";
  }

  $nowplaying .= "  <\/dl>\n";

1;
}