PHPinfoil

Simple PHP, one file, no database, no external library to serve your backups and eshop games to Tinfoil and DBI.

I needed a light and fast php to create a repository for Tinfoil so that I could install backups without links. The two projects I found, however, were not able to manage a folder structure, which for some archives can also be articulated. I also didn't have any need to link to external GDrives or similar. If you want to use GDrive or other external link, please check other more feature rich, projets like https://github.com/ibnux/php-tinfoil-server

I then took a Raspberry to which I connected my usb HDD, and with this php I solved my problems.

What it does

• Cycles through all the files and folders in the given path and creates the json file to be provided to Tinfoil
• The first run it creates a json index cache file (write permission is needed), to avoid rescan all the files. The following times if the cache file exists this is provided, otherwise a new file is created
• Call the PHPinfoil.php with ?reset to delete and recreate the cache file
• No Database Needed

How To Use:

• • Put all your games in a folder under the path served by your php webserver, they can be divided into subfolders
• • Copy the PHPinfoil.php file to a folder (also the same folder of games) on the same http server, reachable by http clients
• • Check that all your games have [TitleID] in the filename or Tinfoil won't show it in the list
• • configure the parameters accordingly, see following Example

Warning

Tinfoil needs the TitleId in the file name. To correctly rename and reorganize yor collection you can use:

• https://github.com/giwty/switch-library-manager by @giwty
• https://github.com/gibaBR/Switch-Backup-Manager by @gibaBR

Example (change the assumptions below to match your case):

• Assuming your http server is serving at http://1.2.3.4:8080/
• Assuming the games are in /data/games folder of your http server
  so they can be downloaded from http://1.2.3.4:8080/data/games/file[0100AD8015550000].nsp
  or subfolders like http://1.2.3.4:8080/data/games/mybackup/file[0100AD8015550000].nsp
• Assuming you put this php file in /php so can be reached at http://1.2.3.4:8080/php/index.php
• Assuming you have write permission on the /cache folder
• Assuming you want to list nsp, xci, nsz and xcz file types

Set parameters with this values:

  $rootFolder = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . "/";
  $Folder = "data/games";
  $cacheFolder = "cache/";
  $cacheFile = "mycache.json";
  $arrExtensions = ['nsp','xci','nsz','xcz'];

in Tinfoil set a location to http://1.2.3.4:8080/php/

(the belows are quick examples, not intended for production environment)

Setup a Raspberry Pi and a USB HDD (with your backups) as personal shop:

1. Follow this link to setup a nginx webserver and php: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/remote-access/web-server/nginx.md
2. Connect the usb hdd, open a terminal on your raspberry pi
3. type sudo fdisk -l and find /dev/sdx that match your usb drive
4. type sudo ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/ and find UUID related to your /dev/sdx usb drive (Needed in step 6)
5. type sudo mkdir /var/www/html/php and copy this index.php in the folder /var/www/html/php
6. type sudo mkdir /var/www/html/cache and sudo chmod 777 /var/www/html/cache
7. type sudo mkdir /var/www/html/games to create a folder where to mount the usb drive
8. type sudo nano /etc/fstab and add this line at the end UUID=uuid_Found_In_Step2 /var/www/html/games auto uid=pi,gid=pi 0 0
9. Reboot
10. enter the address http://rpi.address.ip/php/ in Tinfoil as a new location or open in a web browser to check the resulting json.

From your PC Windows, Linux and should work also on MacOs

1. Install PHP 5 or greater for your system from https://www.php.net/downloads
2. copy PHPinfoil.php in the folder where you store your games and rename it in index.php
3. open terminal/cmd/bash/whatever
4. type ipconfig or ifconfig command to get your current ip address
5. cd into your game folder
6. type php -S 0.0.0.0:80 to start php webserver
7. set in Tinfoil a location to http://yourIp.at.step.4/
8. close and reopen Tinfoil

Docker

• Assuming your http server is serving at http://1.2.3.4:8080/
• Assuming the games are in /data/games folder of your http server

Run:

docker run -d --rm -e HOST=1.2.3.4:8080 -v /data/games/:/var/www/html/data/games -p 8080:80 sbkg0002/phptinfoil:1

Build the image yourself:

git clone https://github.com/TheyKilledKenny/PHPinfoil.git
cd PHPinfoil
docker build -t phpinfoil .