How to use PHP

AbelCam supports the use of PHP.

To use PHP within AbelCam, install the PHP 5.3.3 zip package from www.php.net
download php-5.3.3-nts-Win32-VC9-x86.zip
5.3.3 is the current release - later versions are expected to work as well.

Install PHP

extract zip file to c:\php
AbelCam expects to find PHP in c:\php

copy c:\Program Files\AbelCam\wwwroot\php\c-php-php.ini to c:\php\php.ini
Changes to the default php.ini are marked with ;ABELCAM

Start AbelCam, the PHP Logo will be shown on the About page

Once PHP is enabled, you can have a look at the PHP examples in wwwroot\php: http://localhost:8080/php
A small page counter example is included.

If you selected the PHP Image Gallery during the AbelCam installation, it will be available here:
http://localhost:8080/gallery

The following environment variables are set for PHP files
 

Variable	Meaning,Value
ABELDATA	%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Seiz System Engineering\AbelCam Location of configuration files
ACTIVECAMS	active camera numbers, separated by commas
CAMFPS	frame rate of the current camera
CAMNAME	name of the current camera
CAMNAMES	names of active cameras, separated by commas
CAMNR	active cam number
CAMRESOLUTION	active cam resolution, eg. 320x240
COOKIES	cookies set for AbelCam, eg. cam="0"
DOC_ROOT	AbelCam document root
HTTP_REFERER	refering page, eg. http://localhost:8080/php/index.php
OUTPUTHEIGHT	output height of current camera, eg. 240
OUTPUTWIDTH	output width of current camera, eg. 320
REDIRECT_STATUS	always set to 200
REMOTE_ADDR	ip address of requestor, eg. 127.0.0.1
REQUEST_METHOD	GET
SCRIPT_FILENAME	script file name, eg. index.php
SCRIPT_NAME	same as above
SERVER_CONFDIR	installation folder, eg. C:\ProgramData?\Seiz System Engineering\AbelCam
SERVER_NAME	AbelCam server name, eg. localhost
SERVER_PORT	AbelCam server port, eg. 8080
SERVER_PROTOCOLL	always HTTP/1.1
SERVER_SOFTWARE	AbelCam version, eg. AbelCam 2.1.1 Pro
ORIG_PATH_INFO	script relative to document root, eg. /php/index.php

other environment variables set by the operating system are available as well.
see http://localhost:8080/php/phpinfo.php
once you have configured PHP
comments:

Regarding PHP Sessions and Cookies --MelvinG?, Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:36:41 +0100 reply

If you are trying to use PHP sessions or doing other
things that use cookies, and it's not working for you,
here is why. PHP wants the SessionID (and other cookies)
to be in the superglobal $_COOKIE[] but AbelCam puts
cookies in !$_ENV["COOKIES"]. PHP does not understand.

To solve the problem, put the following code at the
beginning of each of your PHP pages. It examines
$_ENV["COOKIES"] and loads all the cookies it finds
into $_COOKIE[] in a way that PHP can understand.

foreach (explode(";", $_ENV["COOKIES"]) as $cookie)
{
    list($key, $val) = explode("=", $cookie);
    $_COOKIE[trim($key)] = trim($val);
}