How to Create a Torrent Tracker: Part 3 – Torrent and User Details

BitTorrent, Programming, Web Development 15 August 2009 | 6 Comments

In this third part of the tutorial, our goal is to show some information about our torrents and users. We’ll go through a bunch of tips and snippets that any developer may find useful while developing a torrent site, such as some util functions to display relative times, friendly sizes and a tree with files [...]

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How to Create a Torrent Tracker: Part 2 – Upload Form

BitTorrent, Programming, Web Development 15 July 2009 | 3 Comments

In the previous part of this guide, we have seen how to run the XBTT tracker on our server and built a basic torrent download system with passkey support.
Now we need a way to upload our torrents, so in this second part we’ll see how to create a fully working upload form featuring validation of [...]

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How to Create a Torrent Tracker with PHP and XBTT: Part 1

BitTorrent, Programming, Web Development 24 June 2009 | 13 Comments

When ideas for my last project started popping out in my mind, I didn’t know much about how BitTorrent trackers work. I was like: “I’m sure there’s some cool well-written package designed to build a private tracker. I’m going to get it”. I thought I would find some well estabilished project, with readable code, support, [...]

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