Pre-formatting script for importing multi-language Songbeamer songs into OpenLP
When importing scripts from the commercial Songbeamer lyrics projection package into the open-source OpenLP, one of the major problems is that OpenLP does not support multilingual songs as of yet. A common workaround is to use OpenLP's freely definable tags to define colors for each language.
This PHP cli script takes all *.sng files in the current directory and tags up to 9 languages with configurable tags, which can then be read by OpenLP. It also does UTF-8 conversion, some additional title formatting and rudimentary extraction of CCLI numbers.
Place the script in a folder with your *.sng files and run it like ./SongFormat.php.
The script allows you to freely define the tags assigned to the various languages by editing the $languageColors array at the beginning of the file.
This script was written by Christoph Fischer ([email protected]) for Volksmission Freudenstadt (www.volksmission-freudenstadt.de).