20.07.2004

PEAR File_Bittorrent is the PHP implementation of the Bittorrent protocol. It is based on the original Python implementation by Petru Paler, the PHP translation by Gerard Krijgsman and additional changes by Carl Ritson.

It consists of three classes which handles the encoding and decoding of data in Bittorrent format. You can also extract useful informations from .torrent files, create .torrent files and query the torrent's scrape page to get its statistics.

Starting in July 2004, PEAR File_Bittorrent hast been stabilised in October 2005.

Visit the official package homepage on pear.php.net for downloads. The development is managed via trac and the complete source is avaliable through svn.

Usage examples can be found here. 

Please file bug reports or enhancement requests on pear.php.net.