# COPS
COPS stands for Calibre OPDS (and HTML) Php Server.
See : [COPS's home](http://blog.slucas.fr/en/oss/calibre-opds-php-server) for more details.
Don't forget to check the [Wiki](https://github.com/seblucas/cops/wiki).
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# Why ?
In my opinion Calibre is a marvelous tool but is too big and has too much
dependencies to be used for its content server.
That's the main reason why I coded this OPDS server. I needed a simple
tool to be installed on a small server (Seagate Dockstar in my case).
I initially thought of Calibre2OPDS but as it generate static file no
search was possible.
Later I added an simple HTML catalog that should be usable on my Kobo.
So COPS's main advantages are :
* No need for many dependencies.
* No need for a lot of CPU or RAM.
* Not much code.
* Search is available.
* With Dropbox / owncloud it's very easy to have an up to date OPDS server.
* It was fun to code.
If you want to use the OPDS feed don't forget to specify feed.php at the end of your URL.
# Prerequisites
1. PHP 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6 or hhvm with GD image processing, Libxml, Intl, Json & SQLite3 support.
2. A web server with PHP support. I only tested with various version of Nginx.
Other people reported it working with Apache and Cherokee. You can also use PHP
embedded server (https://github.com/seblucas/cops/wiki/Howto---PhpEmbeddedServer)
3. The path to a calibre library (metadata.db, format, & cover files).
On any Debian base Linux you can use :
aptitude install php5-gd php5-sqlite php5-json php5-intl
On Centos you may have to add :
yum install php-xml
# Install
1. Extract the zip file to a folder in web space (visible to the web server).
2. If you're doing a first-time install, copy config_local.php.example to config_local.php
3. Edit config_local.php to match your config.
4. If needed add other configuration item from config_default.php
If you choose to put your Calibre directory inside your web directory then you
will have to edit /etc/nginx/mime.types to add this line :
application/epub+zip epub;
If you like Docker, you can also try [this project](https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-cops)
# Known problems
Not a lot, except for the bad quality of the code (first PHP project ever) ;)
Please see https://github.com/seblucas/cops/issues for open issues
# Need help
Please read https://github.com/seblucas/cops/wiki and check the FAQ.
# Credits
* Locale message handling is inspired of http://www.mind-it.info/2010/02/22/a-simple-approach-to-localization-in-php/
* str_format function come from http://tmont.com/blargh/2010/1/string-format-in-php
* All icons come from Font Awesome : http://fontawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/
* The unofficial OPDS validator : http://opds-validator.appspot.com/
* Thanks to all testers, translators and contributors.
* Feed icons made by Freepik from Flaticon website licensed under Creative Commons BY 3.0 http://www.flaticon.com and http://www.freepik.com
External libraries used :
* JQuery : http://jquery.com/
* Magnific Popup : http://dimsemenov.com/plugins/magnific-popup/
* Php-epub-meta : https://github.com/splitbrain/php-epub-meta with some modification by me
https://github.com/seblucas/php-epub-meta
* TbsZip : http://www.tinybutstrong.com/apps/tbszip/tbszip_help.html
* DoT.js : http://olado.github.io/doT/index.html
* PHPMailer : https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer
* js-lru : https://github.com/rsms/js-lru
# Copyright & License
COPS - 2012-2016 (c) Sébastien Lucas
See COPYING and file headers for license info