iTunes XML parser for PHP

A class to extract info, tracks and playlists from an iTunes XML file.

Original code copyright (c) 2003 by Robert A. Wallis. Dicked around with in 2005 by Peter Minarik, and in 2013-2021 by Conan Theobald.

LGPL2.1 licensed: See LICENSE

About

A simple PHP class that will read an iTunes XML file and convert the info, tracks and playlists contained within into an array of objects.

Tracks can be matched to playlist-items by running the #processPlaylists() method after opening your XML file.

Supports sorting fields by string, number, and date.

Instructions

See example.php for a basic implementation.

require_once 'iTunesXMLparser.class.php';

$xml_path = 'iTunes playlist export.xml';

$itunes = new iTunesXMLParser();
$itunes->sort_field = 'Track ID';
$itunes->sort_direction = 'ascending';
$itunes->open( $xml_path );

/*
  "$itunes->data" is now available. print_r to see what's inside:
    print_r( $itunes->data );
*/

For conversion to JSON, I recommend using the jsbeautifier.org PHP port.

EDIT - No need for that now. :)

2021 update

Before releasing 1.6 I discovered a fork by @dajoho that has a composer.json:

• https://github.com/dajoho/itunes-php

This version had also already fixed the sort() bug 2 years ago! :)

Contributors

• @nickbe - Bug report
• @dajoho - Composer compatible fork
• @SidRoberts - Code improvement

Credits

Based on work by:

• Robert Wallis
• Peter Minarik