Bencode for Laravel 4

Also see - torrent-bencode

Bencode (pronounced like B encode) is the encoding used by the peer-to-peer file sharing system BitTorrent for storing and transmitting loosely structured data.

It supports four different types of values:

• byte strings,
• integers,
• lists, and
• dictionaries (associative arrays).

Bencoding is most commonly used in torrent files. These metadata files are simply bencoded dictionaries.

While less efficient than a pure binary encoding, bencoding is simple and (because numbers are encoded as text in decimal notation) is unaffected by endianness, which is important for a cross-platform application like BitTorrent. It is also fairly flexible, as long as applications ignore unexpected dictionary keys, so that new ones can be added without creating incompatibilities.

##Requirements Apache or Nginx = Latest production version PHP >= 5.4.0 (with MCrypt PHP Extension) Laravel >= 4.0

##Installation

Require this package in your composer.json and update composer.

"bhutanio/laravel-bencode": "dev-master"

Update Composer

composer update or php composer.phar update

Register the Class and Facade

In app/config/app.php add a provider and an aliase.

'providers' => array(
  'Bhutanio\BEncode\ServiceProvider',
);


'aliases' => array(
  'BEncode'         => 'Bhutanio\BEncode\Facade',
);

##Usage

Simple Example

	$bcoder = new BEncode;
	$bcoder->set([
		'announce'=>'http://www.private-tracker.com',
		'comment'=>'Downloaded from Private Tracker',
		'created_by'=>'PrivateTracker v1.0'
	]);
	
	// decode Torrent file
	$torrent = $bcoder->bdecode( File::get('AwesomeMovie.torrent'));
	print_r($torrent);
	
	// show Torrent contents
	$files = $bcoder->filelist( $torrent );
	print_r($files);
	
	// make Torrent private
	$torrent = $bcoder->make_private($torrent);
	print_r($torrent);
	
	$infohash = sha1($bcoder->bencode($torrent["info"]));
	$binhash = pack("H*", $bcoder->bencode($torrent["info"])));

Static Method

BEncode::set([
        'announce'=>'http://www.private-tracker.com',
        'comment'=>'Downloaded from Private Tracker',
        'created_by'=>'PrivateTracker v1.0'
	]);

$torrent = BEncode::bdecode( File::get('AwesomeMovie.torrent'));
$torrent = BEncode::make_private($torrent);
$infohash = sha1(BEncode::bencode($torrent["info"]));
$binhash = pack("H*", sha1(BEncode::bencode($torrent["info"])));

print_r($torrent);

##Functions

/**
 * Data Setter
 * @param array $data [array of public variables]
 * eg:
 *  $bcoder = new \Bhutanio\BEncode;
 * 	$bcoder->set([
 *		'announce'=>'http://www.example.com',
 *		'comment'=>'Downloaded from example.com',
 *		'created_by'=>'TorrentSite v1.0'
 *	]);
 */
public function set($data=array()) {}

/**
 * Decode a torrent file into Bencoded data
 * @param  string  $s 	[link to torrent file]
 * @param  integer $pos [file position pointer]
 * @return array/null 	[Array of Bencoded data]
 * eg:
 * 		$bcoder = new \Bhutanio\BEncode;
 * 		$torrent = $bcoder->bdecode( File::get('MyAwesomeTorrent.torrent'));
 *  	var_dump($torrent);
 */
public function bdecode($s, &$pos=0) {}

/**
 * Created Torrent file from Bencoded data
 * @param  array $d [array data of a decoded torrent file]
 * @return string 	[data can be downloaded as torrent]
 */
public function bencode(&$d) {}

/**
 * Decode a torrent file into Bencoded data
 * @param  string $filename 	[File Path]
 * @return array/null 			[Array of Bencoded data]
 */
public function bdecode_file($filename) {}

/**
 * Generate list of files in a torrent
 * @param  array $data 	[array data of a decoded torrent file]
 * @return array 		[list of files in an array]
 */
public function filelist($data) {}

/**
 * Replace array data on Decoded torrent data so that it can be bencoded into a private torrent file.
 * Provide the custom data using $this->set();
 * @param  array $data 	[array data of a decoded torrent file]
 * @return array 		[array data for torrent file]
 */
public function make_private($data) {}