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+<?php
+require_once '../airtime_mvc/library/php-amqplib/amqp.inc';
+
+//Step 1: Verify all config files in /etc/airtime/ exist and have size > 0 bytes.
+
+echo "*** Airtime System Check Script ***".PHP_EOL;
+
+set_error_handler("myErrorHandler");
+
+AirtimeCheck::CheckOsTypeVersion();
+
+AirtimeCheck::CheckConfigFilesExist();
+$airtimeIni = AirtimeCheck::GetAirtimeConf();
+$pypoCfg = AirtimeCheck::GetPypoCfg();
+
+AirtimeCheck::GetDbConnection($airtimeIni);
+AirtimeCheck::CheckRabbitMqVersion();
+AirtimeCheck::CheckRabbitMqConnection($airtimeIni);
+
+AirtimeCheck::CheckApacheVHostFiles();
+
+AirtimeCheck::GetAirtimeServerVersion($pypoCfg);
+
+
+class AirtimeCheck{
+
+    public static function CheckPypoRunning(){
+        //check using svstat
+    }
+
+    public static function CheckLiquidsoapRunning(){
+        //connect via telnet
+    }
+
+    public static function CheckConfigFilesExist(){
+        echo PHP_EOL."Verifying Config Files in /etc/airtime".PHP_EOL;
+        $confFiles = array("airtime.conf",
+                            "liquidsoap.cfg",
+                            "pypo.cfg",
+                            "recorder.cfg");
+
+        foreach ($confFiles as $cf){
+            $fullPath = "/etc/airtime/$cf";
+            echo "\t".$fullPath." ... ";
+            if (file_exists($fullPath)){
+                echo "[OK]".PHP_EOL;
+            } else {
+                echo "Not Found!".PHP_EOL;
+                exit;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    public static function GetAirtimeConf(){
+        $ini = parse_ini_file("/etc/airtime/airtime.conf", true);
+
+        if ($ini === false){
+            echo "Error reading /etc/airtime/airtime.conf.".PHP_EOL;
+            exit;
+        }
+
+        return $ini;
+    }
+
+    public static function GetPypoCfg(){
+        $ini = parse_ini_file("/etc/airtime/pypo.cfg", false);
+
+        if ($ini === false){
+            echo "Error reading /etc/airtime/pypo.cfg.".PHP_EOL;
+            exit;
+        }
+
+        return $ini;
+    }
+
+    public static function GetDbConnection($airtimeIni){
+        $host = $airtimeIni["database"]["host"];
+        $dbname = $airtimeIni["database"]["dbname"];
+        $dbuser = $airtimeIni["database"]["dbuser"];
+        $dbpass = $airtimeIni["database"]["dbpass"];
+        
+        $dbconn = pg_connect("host=$host port=5432 dbname=$dbname user=$dbuser password=$dbpass");
+
+        echo PHP_EOL."Verifying Airtime Database".PHP_EOL;
+
+        if ($dbconn === false){
+            echo "\tConnection ... [Failed!]".PHP_EOL;
+            exit;
+        } else {
+            echo "\tConnection ... [OK]".PHP_EOL;
+        }
+    }
+
+    public static function CheckDbTables(){
+        
+    }
+
+    /* The function tests for whether the rabbitmq-server package is
+     * installed. RabbitMQ could be installed manually via tarball
+     * and this function will fail to detect it! Unfortunately there
+     * seems to be no other way to check RabbitMQ version. Will update
+     * this function if I find a more universal solution. */
+    public static function CheckRabbitMqVersion(){
+        echo PHP_EOL."Checking RabbitMQ Version".PHP_EOL;
+        
+        $command = "dpkg -l | grep rabbitmq-server";
+        exec($command, $output, $result);
+
+        if (count($output) > 0){
+            //version string always starts at character 45. Lets find
+            //the end of this version string by looking for the first space.
+            $start = 45;
+            $end = strpos($output[0], " ", $start);
+            
+            $version = substr($output[0], $start, $end-$start);
+
+            echo "\t$version ... [OK]".PHP_EOL;
+        } else {
+            echo "\trabbitmq-server package not found. [Failed!]".PHP_EOL;
+        }
+    }
+    
+    public static function CheckRabbitMqConnection($airtimeIni){
+        echo PHP_EOL."Verifying RabbitMQ Service".PHP_EOL;
+        try {
+            $conn = new AMQPConnection($airtimeIni["rabbitmq"]["host"],
+                                             $airtimeIni["rabbitmq"]["port"],
+                                             $airtimeIni["rabbitmq"]["user"],
+                                             $airtimeIni["rabbitmq"]["password"]);
+        } catch (Exception $e){
+            echo "\tConnection ... [Failed!]".PHP_EOL;
+            exit;
+        }
+        echo "\tConnection ... [OK]".PHP_EOL;
+    }
+
+    public static function GetAirtimeServerVersion($pypoCfg){
+
+        echo PHP_EOL."Checking Airtime Server Version".PHP_EOL;
+        echo "\tConnecting to http://localhost/api/version".PHP_EOL;
+
+        $baseUrl = $pypoCfg["base_url"];
+        $basePort = $pypoCfg["base_port"];
+        $apiKey = $pypoCfg["api_key"];
+       
+        $rh = fopen("http://$baseUrl:$basePort/api/version/api_key/$apiKey", "r");
+
+        if ($rh !== false){
+            while (($buffer = fgets($rh)) !== false) {
+                $json = json_decode(trim($buffer), true);
+                if (is_null($json)){
+                    echo "NULL STRING".PHP_EOL;
+
+                } else {
+                    echo "\t\tAirtime Version ".$json["version"]." ... [OK] ".PHP_EOL;
+                }
+            }
+        } else {
+            echo "\t\tConnection ... [Failed!]".PHP_EOL;
+            exit;           
+        }
+
+        function handleError($errno, $errstr,$error_file,$error_line)
+        { 
+         echo "<b>Error:</b> [$errno] $errstr - $error_file:$error_line";
+         echo "<br />";
+         echo "Terminating PHP Script";
+         die();
+        }
+        
+    }
+
+    public static function CheckApacheVHostFiles(){
+        echo PHP_EOL."Checking for Airtime Apache config files".PHP_EOL;
+
+        $fileNames = array("/etc/apache2/sites-available/airtime",
+                        "/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/airtime");
+
+        foreach ($fileNames as $fn){
+            echo "\tChecking $fn ... ";
+            if (file_exists($fn)){
+                echo '[OK]'.PHP_EOL;
+            } else {
+                echo "[Failed!]".PHP_EOL;
+                exit;
+            }
+        }
+
+        //Since apache2 loads config files in alphabetical order
+        //from the sites-enabled directory, we need to check if
+        //airtime is lexically the first file in this directory.
+
+        //get sorted array of files
+        $arr = scandir("/etc/apache2/sites-enabled");
+
+        foreach ($arr as $a){
+            if ($a == "." || $a == ".."){
+                continue;
+            }
+            if ($a == "airtime"){
+                break;
+            } else {
+                echo "\t\t*Warning, the file \"$a\" is lexically ahead of the file \"airtime\" in".PHP_EOL;
+                echo"\t\t /etc/apache2/sites-enabled and preventing airtime from being loaded".PHP_EOL;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    public static function CheckOsTypeVersion(){
+        echo PHP_EOL."Checking operating system.".PHP_EOL;
+
+        if (file_exists("/etc/lsb-release")){
+
+            $ini = parse_ini_file("/etc/lsb-release", false);
+            
+            //lsb-release existing implies a Ubuntu installation.
+            echo "\tUbuntu based distribution found: ".$ini["DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION"].PHP_EOL;
+        } else if (file_exists("/etc/debian_version")) {
+            //if lsb-release does not exist, lets check if we are
+            //running on Debian. Look for file /etc/debian_version
+            $handler = fopen("/etc/debian_version", "r");
+
+            $version = trim(fgets($handler));
+            
+            echo "\tDebian based distribution found: ".$version.PHP_EOL;
+        } else {
+            echo "\tWARNING: Unknown OS Type".PHP_EOL;
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+
+// error handler function
+function myErrorHandler($errno, $errstr, $errfile, $errline)
+{
+    if ($errno == E_WARNING){
+        if (strpos($errstr, "401") !== false){
+            echo "\t\tServer is running but could not find Airtime".PHP_EOL;
+        } else if (strpos($errstr, "Connection refused") !== false){
+            echo "\t\tServer does not appear to be running".PHP_EOL;
+        } else {
+            //echo $errstr;
+        } 
+    }
+
+    /* Don't execute PHP internal error handler */
+    return true;
+}