To continue our journey in pointless, but nevertheless fun things to create, I've created a simple PHP extension that allows you stream music data to an IceCast server in pure PHP. For this I'm using the libshout3 library which can stream both MP3 or OGG/Vorbis data to multiple stream servers (including IceCast, ShoutCast etc). In this blog-post I will try to explain how I've created this extension, and off course, how you can use it.

The series is split up into four parts:

• Part 1 - download and install (and some behind the scenes)
• Part 2 - parts of the extension and a first test
• Part 3 - populating the store, adding getters
• Part 4 - creating setters and some other random functionality

You can find the source for this extension over on his gihub repository.