Too many people have had problems getting this installed. Most of the time it can be attributed to mod_rewrite or AllowOverride settings. You spoke, I listened.

I rewrote the functionality in a couple of nights. It no longer uses mod_rewrite. The whole app weighs a lot less now too. The data being transferred is all json now, so it’s a bit faster. I left off the user login for now. It looks a little different at the moment. I scrapped using IUI, after using it at work quite a bit, there were a number of things I didn’t like about it. Especially for the more simplistic interface that I required.

The new hellaphone is now hosted at Github. Grab it here.

This is the old interface and code to hellaphone. You should use the new codebase at github.

HellaPhone is an iPhone front end to HellaNZB written in PHP using the CakePHP framework.Quick install:

1. Download HellaPhone.zip or HellaPhone.tgz.
2. Unzip to your web directory.
3. rename hella.php.sample in the “hellaphone/app/config” directory to hella.php
4. edit the hella.php file to match your HellaNZB settings. Most can leave the defaults just change the ‘your server here’ to the ip or hostname of your server.
5. chmod the “hellaphone/app/tmp” directory with “chmod -R 777“
6. That’s it. Point your web browser to your server/hellaphone/.

Having trouble? Drop me a line from the Contact Page. Requirements:

• http://Newzbin.com Account
• hellaNZB install
• PHP5 w/ curl support

(Update)

I had some interest to open source this and gladly obliged. You can now find it hosted with google code ->

svn checkout http://hellaphone.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ hellaphone

Roadmap

Work is being started to complete HellaPhone. If you have any suggestions please feel free to drop a line. Some of the things I would like to get done for a second rev are the following:

• integrate iui for the interface and behavior
• track status of downloads and queues
• fix non-working things like the “remember me” function