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1. Izzy Soft proudly presents the phpVideoPro v0 9 5 Application Manual Table of Contents Administrators Mantal iis ssccecsseccisessaliscaceccsacestessdescccssstoccdedveccdesescdevesevcesssscscsddecodesseveccseessseussesdesesstucdssecoecdesteee 1 Installation im A OO Oa EEE NE E eS ited sie 1 Requirements a aos 1 stallati onne A E E A ag A a A 1 Dd ANS cerca aiie li 2 CONSUMO A A A A didas 3 CONSUMO ii 3 Lean gtiage SENS A in cia 4 Movies and Media wird td AA AA A da is 4 A E O 5 IMDB ai ii Ltrs Stan 5 User BT o 01 0 So ee eee ee eee 6 General 5 ies TOO 6 A O A NT 7 User and Session Management iasccecies cescianiatieas sesctack EE VERNE aE ESAE datada dates 7 Manage Us acionar ari olde ie neds 12h ena See edd dea need dee EES ER edd aes 7 Manage SESSIONS a daa cate e a eel ea e Sateen ea LS 7 Translation M naj ment iesenii eii tenie sawn e AAEE E ASS EE tt 8 TechimicalDitin o EEE E E RNS 8 CAES ir 8 Movie Techical Dita ini lisis lesa 9 DORA E NONE 9 Pt E a NEB REN BERS 9 PSLabel Template Management cccceecccssececsseceseceesaeceececeeceecaeeesaeceeaaeceaeeceeeeeeeeeesaeceeaaeneaeeseeeeees 10 Edit LabelPack Contents id A dica 10 De Install LabelBacks rta ca di A AAA aba 10 Data Admisiones inn E a a idiota 10 BACKUPS sede O O 10 Orpesa dd PATEE 11 C st mizing Mantal AA Ssss scoor soho s stots oo o sesa Eso se sr ou oaen otenn oosina os sessi tess sso sh soss 12 Localizing theappliCation esise snio iier aae a a A
2. Unpack the TAR archive to the directory of your choice This must either be inside your web servers document root or linked there and the web server configured to allow that FollowSymLinks in the Apache options or set up in your web servers configuration as an Alias Rename the inc config sample file to inc config inc and optionally edit it to reflect your structures which can also be done by the configuration wizard see below Start the configuration wizard by pointing your browser to the setup install index php file This will initialize your configuration and setup the database At a later time you may also want to use the wizard to restore a previously saved backup Change the Admin Password immediately after completing the wizard from its initial value video to something else so nobody can access the application with admin privileges but without your consent Protect your installation so no unprivileged user will be able to run the wizard This can be done by either 4 remove the setup install directory 4 setup a protection by your web server e g by using a special htaccess file there is already an example file placed inside the directory or specifying corresponding options directly in your web servers configuration 4 change the permissions of this directory using the chmod command e g chmod 0700 install if the web server is not its owner If you are concerned about disk space you may want to remove
3. and probably won t ever be since 1t s only a hobby and there are so many others that require my presence But as long as I have not added all the features I need see doc 2do you can be sure that there will always be a fresh release available within the next few weeks And even if not don t give up sometimes it takes a bit longer So I close with my standard disclaimer This is only a hobby I can t promise anything I just ask you to stay tuned LabelPacks phpVideoPro supports LabelPacks which are a special form of organizing available postscript templates for label printing This means phpVideoPro does not ship with all the label templates included but you can select which ones you need This way the distribution archive is kept smaller these templates will not change with every release and you can install the templates you like while getting rid of unnecessary ones Installation of LabelPacks can be done right from within phpVideoPro if the user has administrative permissions and the directories are writable for the webserver process Since some may consider this a security risk the packs can also simply be downloaded from the admin menu unpacked on the command line and then simply registered from the admin menu again Starting with v0 9 1 there is also a preview for the LabelPacks whether already installed or just available on the server integrated to make it easier for you to Features 32 find out which ones y
4. means the user login in question e lt password gt of course is the password of that user e lt permissions gt is a string where the key letters of the permissions to set are simply concatenated These key letters are the bold ones here Admin Browse aDd Update deLete For the parameter they are case insensitive Thus the string bdu would mean the permissions Browse Add and Update Missing permissions will be set to FALSE In order to remove all permissions simply set the string to IMDB Updater Settings 20 Removing a user Removing a user is a special case If you just use remove johndoe it will probably fail if johndoe still owns some media this protection was added with phpVideoPro v0 9 5 So you can decide whether you simply want to drop those media specify remove johndoe cascade or let them be owned by the admin user specifying remove johndoe keep Be careful when you want to remove a user on a phpVideoPro installation prior to v0 9 5 that protection is not there then and the user will be dropped without warning while the media previously owned by that user will be orphaned Backup and Restore For Backups and Restores from the command line the pvptools package provides the backup php script Except for the running phpVideoPro installation and the PHP CLI binary it has no additional requirements Configuration The configuration is similar to that of the other scripts For each of your phpVideoPro i
5. place a msg to Izzy there Get your Support Level For basic support there s nothing you have to do just file your request and wait for our response LabelPacks 33 For a flatrate you should contact us in advance so we will setup a support contract Your flatrate support then starts as soon as we received your payment if not agreed otherwise in the contract Details on how to contact us are to be found at the companies home page For On Demand commercial support the first contact should be an email or phone call or fax Before we can start we need an explicit order from you together with at least a billing address The price per hour mentioned above does not yet include tax or money transfer costs so you ll have to add these Once the case is closed we will send you a bill Help Needed While most of the development is done by myself there are things I can t handle This is the place where you come into play Got the software for free and want to give something back Here you go BiDi Support Already for a long time I struggle with the BiDi support trying to enable Hebrew with the application Up to now mostly unsuccessfully The BiDi stuff always messes some things up The problem is one never knows in advance where the direction needs to change hey everything is generated dynamically It s not only the translations and this is already hard to handle not only because of the language fallback Store
6. we are working with graphics and graphic functions to create the final label applying the text to the image file We found it best to use PNG at that time since there have been issues with JPeg licensing stuff made PHP removing the JPeg support in some versions so what you basically have to do is create some png graphic files and attach configuration files to them But of course we will describe that more precisely Labels are created configured within the labels subdirectory of your phpVideoPro installation There are at least two files to consider One is the configuration file lt name gt config and one optional file is the empty label image the label as it should look like just except the data on it lt name gt png Both have to have the same name if you e g call the config file my_favorite config the graphics file to use with this config has to be called my_favorite png If there s no png file available for the config that s no problem an empty template will be created having white background and the fields specified in the config will be drawn with lines In the config file as you may have guessed you configure how the label should look like Make sure the values you enter here i e width height and the coordinates for the fields match your empty label image if you want to use one Since the config file is included as PHP source you may use e g the PHP include comma
7. Admin menu This will present you a list of known categories as shown in the screenshot For each categorie you can modify the handle which you normally should not do as well as its name which is better done via the Translation Management If the category is currently not used you can make it invisible i e it is not shown in the list when editing a movie entry It is also possible to delete a category If there are movies referring to the category you intend to delete you Translation Management 8 will get an information telling you how many movies are doing so and the category will not be deleted For now you will first have to check up those movies and unassign the category before you can delete it To identify the movies in question you can use the MovieSearch function The last row in this table contains an empty set This is intended to optionally add a new category to the list Movie Technical Data Manage movie technical dataSelecting Edit Movie technical data from the Admin menu brings you to this screen Here you can setup technical details to be associated with your movies like screen color and audio formats as well as languages you want to be presented to chose from for the audio and subtitle tracks and available media types you use to store your movies on Nothing can be directly edited on that screen but using the trashcan icon you can directly delete single items To modify existing sets just click on the e
8. Izzy url http projects izzysoft de to ename ps_filename 11x lly urx ury l eps common_cddvd ps 0 0 470 470 ommon_cddvd ps 0 0 470 470 ommon_cddvd ps 0 0 470 470 7 cCOmmon_cddvd ps 0 0 470 470 l eps common_cddvd ps 0 0 470 470 ps common_cddvd ps 0 0 470 470 cddvd ps 0 0170 47 0 ps common_cddvd ps 0 0 470 470 mon_cddvd ps 0 0 470 470 Of course If you wish you can add much more comments inside The original file I pasted this from has much more comments I just stripped them to make the example more clear PS Labels 17 pvptools pvptools is a separately distributed package for the phpVideoPro admin It contains several scripts for the maintenance of the database for details see the table of contents on the right hand side of this page No explicit installation is required for these scripts You can simply unpack the archive where you like and use the scripts right away Details on how to use them are to be found on the corresponding pages as well as in the text files of the archives doc directory Installation Requirements Of course the scripts require php VideoPro itself to be installed as they make no sense without that Next to this you will need the command line version of the PHP interpreter as these scripts are not intended to be run from a browser Take care to check the text files mentioned above for the required version of phpVideoPro if this condition is not met the scripts probably do
9. ala Sead ta et dead Eaa ERS 12 Localize the WebiIdterlace tt neeo a sae bees ae a a aa a E aea ea 12 Localizethe Online Help System cesis a e ERE EEEE EAE E AEE an 12 Creating templates for the application eee eececesccesseceesseceececeeeeeceeeeaecseaeeceseeceeeeeeeesesaecseaeeneaeeeeeeeees 13 Creating Label Templates cor ineat re dd ias 13 Babel Systems used titi cata cet E EEAS 14 GD Tabs sen STA RT RS A RP A A EA 14 PS Bel sae cs E N EEEE ia cata 15 DV DUONG A NN 18 Trista latin sos RR ORE 18 REQUIEM shtcasttifescsssdovvasdeossacedeucssadeuss sceuuneisss leia actes debe o deL ea ca o e 18 Da a E ON 18 Installation aria actores iadss 18 AAA NN 18 Structure of the configuration file ee eeccecesceessecesceceseeceeeeececeesaeceeaceeeaeeceeeeeeeeeaaeceeaeceeaeeeeaees 19 Global CONTIGUOS ee eG 19 Table of Contents pyptools Backup Script Set ii AA ARES MA ahaha ag leet AS AE AA 20 User Managements osea sisi 20 RO 20 Removin MUS sapieri n i e eN EE ORES EEVEE EA E EE AN 21 Backup and RES vass2sscseceacaneders cheacecseteavs aesadasetebiscatwath caita Gaandsubscdernsesachasscatetesseahseveedeaestedeuewedscdes 21 Conn guration seneta aired eee ia 21 SVMLAN anre aio 21 Bak dl cdo 1 a e dt o ceases Ate ch o e canton DA 21 RESTE A A AR EAS EOE TAEA TAE E A tbc 21 Get IMDB IDs Tor VOUr Movies ei notado aE evea oe EEES E A E EE EEEN iae 22 NAO NO 22 HoOwW to USE The Scroll tapia 22 CONCISO ii E Rd ENE di E EREA 23 Get IMDB IDs for you
10. are available but the syntax for variable replacement translations and blocks is the same Wiki syntax is not supported yet as long as phpVideoPro uses the old version directly integrated with the code and doesn t take the API as dependency as this is planned for the future So the job is not very difficult and again the tasks are quite clear 1 Copy the file s you want to localize from the he1p en subdirectory to the directory of your language identified by the 2 letter international code As an example for Finnish this would be help fi you can find all the keys listed in the setup tech_data sq file If the directory does not yet exist simply create it Alternatively you can also start with an empty file Customizing Manual 12 2 Edit the file s by translating from the English file This does not need to be literally but should be understandable Moreover it is recommended to keep the structure title blocks so references will work across languages e g from an English substitute of a file missing for your language That s it If you selected that language as primary language in your configuration the files you are created will automatically be detected and used Again please consider sending your work to us for inclusion with future versions Creating templates for the application To create templates for the application you need at least some HTML knowledge all the layout is done by HTML and CSS as it is wit
11. been reached the oldest backup file will be deleted on the next backup attempt made by the user It will however not be checked when the admin creates that backup via the admin backup page General This section contains everything not fitting in the other places The User column again shows whether a setting can be overridden by user preferences Setting Comment To adjust the look and feel phpVideoPro offers different template sets see also CustomizingManual for the creation of your own template sets Here you define the Yes default for new visitors users For text areas especially the comments on movies a WYSIWYG editor can be used One man s meat is another man s poison so you can define whether it shall be Ja used by default or just on demand Display some hints when the mouse is moved over certain places Again a Yes two edged sword so we leave it to you to enable it or not Refers to the PostScript output for labels see also Printing in the UserManual or PSLabel Management in the administrators manual In order to place them accurately we need to know the printers borders If your printer is not listed here first try one of the others If you find no matching printer you have to create a new entry see the corresponding item in the admin menu Browser Proxy Here you can define whether phpVideoPros pages may be cached by Cache browsers proxies Dynamic pages like these tend to change so if you are jus
12. cannot use Postscript GDLabels are still limited to VHS tapes since nobody ever provided any labels for other media You can reach this label system via the Labels item of the Print menu Lists Printing lists uses neither of the two printing engines mentioned above but rather generates the lists and leaves the printing to another application of your choice Though it is listed in the Print menu as item Lists 1t is not printing them Lists can be generated in three different formats Plain ASCH HTML and CSV The latter can be imported to e g Excel OpenOffice Calc or StarCalc and formatted there as it simply delivers the sorted data as the first option ASCII does The HTML format has its optical enhancements here and can as well be imported to e g StarWriter or Word for optional formatting enhancements and printing Of course you could also print directly from your browser but this is not that convenient for lists with many pages So what lists you can generate First there are the media lists either sorted by media numbers alphabetically by movie names or grouped by categories Moreover you can print lists of your staff members either actors directors or composers sorted alphabetically having the associated movies named along Maintain Backups If the administrator permitted these operations you can maintain backups of your records if the admin did not decide to do so you are not in charge of Hence it is possi
13. gt put it into your document root and call it with your browser The resulting page will list your PHP configuration and tell you about available capabilities Installation Recommended Installation Path The best and most recommended way to install phpVideoPro is to use your Linux distributions package manager There are deb and rpm packages available in the IzzySoft APT repository and you can even include this repository in your APT or YUM configuration this is described on the webpages there Doing so all dependencies will be resolved automatically and installation is done by a single command apt get install phpvideoproor yum install phpvideopro will perform all necessary steps If you can neither use deb nor rpm packages you should download the TAR archives IMDBPHP and phpVideoPro Having these unpacked change to the directories created and run make install after making sure that all dependencies are met All these mentioned methods have at least two advantages over the manual installation Administrators Manual 1 e all files will automatically be put to the right places e everything can be easily cleanly uninstalled apt get remove phpvideopro yum remove phpvideopro make uninstall Using deb rpm packages with the repository moreover will allow you easy updates Manual Installation If you prefer to do a manual installation you first need to make sure all requirements are met Then 1
14. if it s off of your terminal 3 Watch the output for the word MATCH yes uppercase that s where the script found something If there are no false positives you can set the corresponding writes see above table to TRUE and run the script again Otherwise you may restrict your frame by playing with the skip_to and Sstop_at parameters or simply exclude the number in the square brackets by adding it to the skip_id array comma separated values between the parenthesis 4 Move on to the next frame by increasing the skip_to and stop_at values Conclusion While this looks like a lot of work it is still much faster than updating all database entries manually And the lazy can just use the first two write variables do a fast run and have at least some of the movies updated without too much work Get IMDB IDs for your movies Crew Members The script get_name_ids php is intended to find the IMDB IDs for the people in your database i e directors actors composers and update their entries accordingly This is only done for people associated with movies having already an IMDB ID since this way we can be more sure to identify them correctly This means you either already had retrieved your movie data with the IMDB feature in the past or you will have to run the GetMovieIMDBIDs script first Running this second script will require much less work than the other and adding the plus of bringing you directly to the associated IMDB pa
15. initial state can be defined in your preferences Edit Delete Move records Moving recordsDeleting a movie record is obviously done by clicking the Delete button You will be asked to approve this though You also can edit the details again by clicking on the Edit button And you can even move a record e g when you copied the movie from a VHS tape to DVD or bought the DVD and threw away the old tape To do so simply click on the media number and you are presented with a form for this task The first drop down shows you the highest media numbers recorded so far for each media type so you can check which would be the next You probably don t want to change the original number since this identifies the record to copy move Specify the new media type and number and then click the Copy or Change buttons depending on the intended action Search for a movie So your friends are there and you want to watch a movie You are known to have a good selection of titles at home and a well equipped home theater that s why everybody is here But which movie you want to watch Finding the right one is easy with php VideoPro Creating a new record 27 Search for MoviesJust click on the search icon in the title bar or select MovieSearch from the Edit menu will open the search page and you have plenty of options If you already know what movie you want to watch but don t remember on what medium it is simply enter the name in the title field Or y
16. phpVideoPro offers you some advantages over that e no need to fiddle around with the database dump options e automated compression on demand e backup selected components or the complete database e backup all movie information using an phpVideoPro internal format allows transferring data even between different versions of phpVideoPro e easy way of appending data from one backup to the existing data allows e g merging data from another phpVideoPro installation into yours Orphans Files Cleanup orphaned filesThe first question is What are orphaned files The screen accessible via the Admin menus item Removal of orphaned files will tell you this in detail Including a list of orphaned files found in your phpVideoPro installation The only stuff saved to the file system beside some cache which will be purged automatically are image files retrieved from the IMDB sites As soon as you used the integrated IMDB search to retrieve movie details phpVideoPro will also save the image attached to that record and insert a link to the movie description If you decide you don t want this image to be displayed there and removed the link from the description the image file still resides on your disk and then can be found and removed here Simply click on the Delete button Database Entries Manage orphaned database entriesOK we got that with the files But what and how can be orphaned in the database Some entries have certain relations St
17. phpVideoPro was inspired by Bernd Rickers VideoPro which is available in a DOS based clipper application latest release in 1994 as well as in a Windows version starting from about 1993 this is now known as Video 5 php VideoPro was designed using PHP because of the cross platform abilities and the added plus of having your information available anywhere at anytime Features phpVideoPro Media list The program allows you to add and change entries as needed on your request 1t utilizes the IMDB Internet Movie DataBase to retrieve information for this task using the IMDBPHP class also available separately php VideoPro can be configured to display your catalogue at will You can view your items in a list containing all of your entries or you can request the program to display a list of available free Terms 31 space on your homemade video tapes You can view details of a specified entry or display a list of all movies with a certain actor Moreover you can have phpVideoPro printing labels for your media just to mention a few examples So you are able to keep track of what is what and what you re looking to add to your closet of treasures The filter functions help to sort through your catalogue by creating subsets and finding special entries within your ever growing collection while the statistics page tells you how much it has already grown Data import from IMDB phpVideoPro is widely configurable Making use of template
18. 00 entries the script automatically identified 270 movies with only 3 false positives all of them caused by the Swrite_yd mode while write_yf was not used at all since it causes too many false positives which is not that bad How to use the script To put the hard issue first It is not that easy as just to adjust the values and run the script once you will need multiple executions for sure with changed values It is never a bad idea to keep track what is done so better do all things in small steps This can be done with the skip_to and stop_at settings picking a subset of all your entries You can also exclude entries using the skip_id array The values assigned to these Restore 22 Y variables refer to the set of movies selected so the same number may refer to a different movie on a subsequent run if there have been some movies updated meanwhile A good process may look like this 1 Check the settings in the configuration file and make sure that the directory and the ID of the admin user are correct the latter you find on the User Management page The next two settings update the IMDBID and the rating you will probably have set to TRUE 2 Set all writes to FALSE take the first group of movies i e by setting skip_to 1 and stop_at 100 Run the script from the command line while optionally spooling it s output to a file e g get_movie_ids php demo tee update log this way you can verify the output even
19. VideoPro the Administrators Manual will help you to manage the application This involves the following topics e Installation updates and get the application running e User and Session Management e Data Administration Backups Cleanup e Translation Management localizing the application e Administration of technical data media types sound formats available categories etc e PSLabel Template Management and LabelPacks e Configuration of Application Defaults e Filter Defaults Installation Requirements There are a few dependencies to consider in order to use phpVideoPro e a Web server supporting PHP tested only with Apache e PHPS recommended PHP 5 2 as loadable module for Apache which again is the only tested variant compiled with support for the database to use e optional IMDBPHP classes installed in the servers PHP include_path e a database which may be remote or local supported are MySQL 3 28 32 and higher recommended v5 as well as PostgreSQL 7 1 or higher starting with v0 9 5 SQLite is an additional option but not fully tested yet Most if not all Linux distribution ship this along with their package manager for IMDBPHP you will need the IzzySoft Apt Repository IzzySoft Apt YUM Repository configured so it should be easy to install On Windows it might be a bit more tricky To test whether you meet these requirements simply create a test PHP file containing a single line lt php phpinfo
20. aff members are associated with movies movies belong to their respective owners and so on Though the application takes care for these relations and e g deletes staff members when you delete the last movie they are associated to there may be situations where an orphan is left in old versions this happened e g when you replaced a staff member in a movies record So just in case here you have the possibility to clean them up Or at least to see 1f there are any and report a bug when you are sure it is the applications fault Backups 11 Customizing Manual This little manual will show some examples on how you can customize phpVideoPro Though this contains issues about extending the application it is not explicitly addressed to developers we won t talk about programming here Most of the things described here can be done by everybody used to work with a computer The following topics will be covered e CreateLabelTemplates how to create templates for label printing e Create TemplateSet how to create an additional template set for the applications web interface e CustomizingManual Localizing how to localize phpVideoPro let it talk to you in your native language Localizing the application For those wonder what the term Localizing means In short you can translate it by let the app talk to me in my favorite language On the UserPreferences page you already learned that there can be languages selected to be used in
21. ariables that may be used in the entry variable Explanation tite the movie s title length length of the movie hh mm format country year las the name suggests country and year the movie was produced counter counter Start Stop counters only used by old video recorders laq_date date the movie was acquired source where you got the movie from lactorl actors Jactors 1 5 format firstname lastname enumeration of actor and actor2 actorl actor2 This considers actors 12 undefined actors as well so if e g actor2 is not set it would be the same as actorl above This rule applies to actors35 and actors variables as well actors35 same as actors12 but for actor3 actor4 actor5 pos oo pe as actor12 but enumerates all set actors director the movies director music the composer of the soundtrack fsk the PG aka FSK MPAA catl cat2 cat3 ecategories comment the movies comment Media type type abbreviation number and the movie s relative number on the medium color olor b w or 3d pict Wooo tone Mono Stereo Dolby Digital 5 1 etc tone_short same in the format 1 0 2 0 6 1 Ip whether a longplay mode was used commercials whether the movie is interrupted by commercials PS Labels mtype mtype_short cass_id part As the name suggests and we already mentioned before this label system uses Postscript Postscript files are generally plain ASCH so they can be manipulated easily T
22. bility in the database Makes this language localization available to the users The drop down box only shows the languages marked available in the database so you might need to check the previous entry first Especially interesting after an update where it is performed automatically for the English language or when you ve got an updated language file from other sources For the here selected language first all translations will be purged from the database and then replaced by the terms from the corresponding file Movies and Media You are right if you now expect settings concerning movies and media In the following table the User column specifies whether a setting can be overridden on the users preferences page Setting Editable Being a relict of past times this was intended to be used for remaining free space on No Media VHS tapes Configuration 4 Another relict When you deleted the last movie from a tape you probably wanted to reuse the tape Today this usually means you gave away the medium and thus want to activate this function When talking about relicts To also make use of the last few meters of your tapes you might have decided to record some video clips from MTV But including them on the tape label would render that unusable That s why one may decide to not include certain records here But today I d recommend to enable this feature Here preferences may differ recordings from TV are still mos
23. ble that one some or all of the following functions are not available to you If you want them ask the administrator Creating backups If the admin permitted it you will find the backup links in Edit Backup To create backups you may have one or two options available Create a backup for download or let it be stored on the server Both may have their advantages and disadvantages If you can download the backup you could decide to setup your own installation of phpVideoPro and restore the backup here but in order to restore it on the original server you probably need to ask the administrator to do so and provide the downloaded file If the backup is stored on the server it is automatically available for recovery when needed So if you have both options available it is your decision which one to use Restoring data phpVideoPro gives no upload facility and probably won t ever So if you ve got your backup file downloaded you need to send it to the administrator and ask for a restore If you are so lucky that the administrator provided you with both storing your backups on the server and restoring from them yourself you will find the corresponding entry again in the menu Edit Backup In case you already created multiple backups you may wonder where they have gone to Don t worry they are all there on the server up to the limit the administrator configured but your restore will always be made from the latest backup you created If y
24. d input for the movies also may contain Right to Left stuff or not If you are experienced with this kind of problems Please contact me and offer your help on this it is highly appreciated See the contact link below for details on how to find me Translations This is something more easy and the project is always looking for people to update existing translations as well as add new languages Since development is going on new phrases are permanently added Help for the translation work thus is always welcome One part of this can be done using the integrated translation editor this affects the web application itself with its menus etc A second playground is the online help here are simple text files to edit All in all nothing technically difficult and you don t need to install anything on your computer to do the job So why not apply for it Label Design You probably know that phpVideoPro has a label printing system To be true there are two different label printing systems available within the application One is based on the graphics library called GD this is the old one while the other uses PostScript PSLabels While the old one was designed years ago for VHS tape labeling and was never extended updated since the PSLabels now start to support CD DVD labels not yet covers as well with version 0 8 5 of phpVideoPro Just a basic set of designs is shipped with the distribution and I must admit They work but they coul
25. d look better So here again help is needed For v0 8 6 of phpVideoPro the tables for the PSLabel system will change a little bit for a new feature I want to support Label Packs This means You design collections of labels I will distribute them as separate archives and the end user can chose which Label Packs to use What is needed therefore A collection of graphics They should be about 470x470 pixels in size The colors Get your Support Level 34 should be selected such that the movies information we print on top is easy readable Motives should be neutral in so far that they match a collection of movies i e they should not be special to a single movie When you set up some of these graphics send them to me any graphics format I ll do necessary conversions prefered formats are JPeg or EPS Of course 1f you have questions and or need closer information please contact me Testing This is always needed and if you find something weird please report Currently we d especially like the new SOLite support be tested Does everything work as expected Some problems which do not appear with the other databases Label Design 35
26. dit icon or click the Add entry link to add a new set The opening page lets you define a name and a short name to be associated Clicking on the link named Edit availibity of languages for audio and subtitle will present you with a table of all languages Here you can neither delete nor add a language but you can define whether it should be displayed for audio resp subtitle when editing a movie entry You should for sure limit the amount of entries enabled the larger their number the harder they are to select for the resp track and the shorter the easier Disk Types Manage Disk TypesHere you can define more details to the media types setup in the previous section You reach this screen via the Admin menus Edit Disk Types item Consider a disk type to be a more specific media type So e g a VCD can be rewritable or not and even this in different formats R RW R RW Similar things apply to DVDs writable rewritable Dual Layer Moreover they can have different sizes and support different features Long play modi for VHS tapes Region codes for DVDs all this is to be defined here Later on when editing your movie entries you can select from these entries to specify very precisely You already know the trashcan icon and what it is for Clicking on it removes the associated entry after making sure you really want to do so The empty line at the end of the table again is for adding a new entry Printers Edit PrintersVia A
27. dmin Edit Printers you find the page described here This is not about installing and configuring drivers since phpVideoPro is not accessing the printers itself but rather generates PostScript code to be printed But in order to position the labels correctly on the corresponding sheets it needs to know the borders the printer uses This is what you configure on this page Names are hollow words here so if you find another printer configured here having the values already set correctly feel free to modify the name to reflect that fact Otherwise you have to find out the correct values maybe by trial and error Simply print a logo on normal paper which is as thin as possible and put the result on top of a sheet to see whether it overlaps correctly scale the difference and adjust the values here correspondingly Once there is no longer a difference your printer is configured correctly with phpVideoPro Categories 9 PSLabel Template Management Edit LabelPacksThe PSLabel templates are used for the label printing and organized in LabelPacks To manage them select Edit PSLabel Templates from the Admin menu The page this will lead you to see screenshot will give you an overview on LabelPacks installed and after clicking the Check for Updates link at the end of the table also about updates as well as new additional LabelPacks available on the projects server Moreover it lets you perform some actions on each LabelPack Display informati
28. elsThe preferred label printing system is based on Postscript This is not a problem on Linux systems since the printing engine used there also uses Postscript However on Windows computers you need to additionally install Ghostscript to use PSLabels Since Ghostscript is available for free this should not be a problem either The dialog for printing can be called via the Labels PS item of the Print menu First you have to select the label sheets you are using there are label sheets available from different vendors like Memorex or Data Becker having different designs and depending on their design you will be brought to a form with the corresponding fields see screenshot Here you enter the information for which media you want to print labels Leaving the number field empty will not print a label on the corresponding position of the sheet Next to the media information you have the possibility to select the label template You have the option to show all available templates or the templates belonging to a selected LabelPack Once you selected a template a preview of the empty label will be displayed along so you can see how 1t would look like Search for a movie 28 GDLabels Other than the PSLabels the former variant still integrated with phpVideoPro uses PHPs GD Library to create labels Development of this engine was already stopped some years ago but we decided to still have this option in our application for those users who
29. es for all your PHP applications which might be wished or not So in short I recommend option a Application Configuring the application itself is done via its web frontend One point already mentioned is the configuration wizard for the initial installation or a recovery and the update wizard More settings can be adjusted via the Admin menu in the Preferences section Note that this will change the defaults which may be partially overridden by the users preferences so if you only want to adjust something for yourself and not for the guest and new users you should use the dialog in the Edit menu instead Details can be found in the applications online help for these pages Configuration Configuration ScreenThis is where you configure the application defaults for new users as well as the settings not to be changed by normal users Selecting the item Configuration from the Admin menu brings you here The configuration screen consists of multiple sections all available options are grouped by the area they belong to At the right end of each section header you find a small help icon A click on it will open a new window explaining what is to be configured here context help To give you a raw idea about the flexibility Updating 3 YA of phpVideoPro in terms of configuration here comes an overview for the details please refer to the help pages just mentioned e Language Settings Install Update Remove translations and
30. ge for the crew members when clicking their buttons How it works The script will first query your database for all movies having an IMDB ID associated Next it retrieves the crew information from the IMDB and compares the names with those you have set for your movies If it finds a match the crew members entry in your database is updated What is considered to be a match again depends on your settings Setting Description Safe vane as shipped version Scompare_mode How the names should be compared Depends om geting equal see below When we found the same name with a different Yes but not Supdate_nane Ven ID shall we create a new record Yes butnot PAESE A word to the Supdate_name setting It is unlikely to be used at all I cannot think of a possibility if you not manipulated your database manually But unlikely does not mean impossible so if that happens you can How to use the script 23 either ignore it FALSE or decide to have a new person entry created in your database and that ID associated with the movie then More important is the compare mode used Compare Mode Description afe equal Literally comparision of the strings case sensitive Absolutely binary Almost the same but binary safe probably not needed Absolutely binary_1 As binary but case insensitive Probably soundex Names sound similar Has many false positives No As soundex but much fewer false positives A good helper for those vo
31. glish site for this which is to be specified here When the data has been transfered to the main window the search window is no longer needed but can be closed Disabling that is only needed for debugging purposes search window Movies and Media 5 Cache installation targets a single user this usually is not the case But if you have multiple users it can speed up things a lot User Backups phpVideoPro includes an own backup mechanism as described for the admins interface in chapter Backups separately But since v0 9 5 not only the admin can manage backups in a restricted way the users also can do this for their own data if the configuration permits The corresponding items then appear in the Edit menu Setting Download Permit normal users to download backups of their own records To do so they additionally Backups require the Browse permission Permit normal users to store backups of their own records in the servers configured backup directory Additionally to the Browse permission for the user the backup directory configured in the inc config inc file must be read and writable by the web server process To restore the records of their own backup files which also can be created by the admin but must be stored in the configured backup directory the user additionally requires the permissions to browse add and delete records How many backup files per user should be kept on the server If this amount has
32. h web pages Besides from that there is not that much to explain the tasks are clear p Guess a good name for the new template set you are going to create To have an example to explain let s call it babylon5 here 2 Go to the templates subdirectory of your phpVideoPro installation and create a subdirectory by this name So based in the applications main directory in our example this would be templates babylon5 3 To have something to start with you may copy the contents of the templates default directory to your new directory This way you make sure you don t forget a file and also have the required placeholders the tokens in the curly braces which will later be replaced by the applications data already mentioned in the right files Also you have the definition of data blocks where they belong that is what looks like HTML comments don t remove them they are essential 4 Now you can start your favorite HTML editor and modify the HTML code within these files Again Make sure to keep the place holders and block marks or the templates won t work 5 If your new template set needs some JavaScript code to be present for all pages there are two special files that can be used if there s a file called top js present in the templates directory it will be linked into the page header A file named foot js in the same place will be linked to the end of each page 6 Once you finished editing these files i e your new templa
33. it button and directly come to the details page But usually you don t know the IMDBID in advance so you will enter the movie name or a part of it into the title field select whether it is an episode or a movie and hit the other Submit button IMDB Search ResultsThis will bring you to the search results page which may take a couple of seconds since the IMDB server needs to be queried in the background In case of a direct hit again you will directly go to the details page but these cases are rare On the search results page the hits are presented best match first You can again click the IMDB icon to first visit the corresponding IMDB page for investigation Click on the name of the movie you want to retrieve data for to get to the details page Account Data 26 IMDB Search Result DetailsIt will again take some seconds until all the movie details have been retrieved from the IMDB site and finally you are presented with all of them to select which data you wish to use see screenshot Depending on how you did setup your IMDB preferences some or all details are already checked for transfer to the main window You can change the check boxes for which fields contents should be transfered as well as edit some of the contents Select a different movie title from the alternative titles available select the PG valid for your country change the runtime rating and categories select other staff members than preselected and edit the movie de
34. l reset the filter before showing the form while Set Filter will leave the currently set filter untouched so you can modify them Movie Records Creating a new record New DVD RecordTo add a new movie record to your database you open the Edit menu and select the submenu New Here you find an entry for all media types configured with the application and chose the correct one e g DVD if the movie was recorded to bought on DVD The application checks for the highest media number in the database and then presents you with a dialog to either accept the next media number available or specify a different one The media number consists of two parts What is presented here is the number of the medium e g DVD number 299 Movies on this medium will be numbered from 1 up so the first one would be DVD 299 01 the second DVD 299 02 and so on So for the second movie on the same medium you would manually specify the number presented in the dialog Once the dialog is closed a screen is loaded similar to the one in the screenshot Here you can specify the details you wish to keep along You can do so manually or let php VideoPro retrieve the data from the IMDB servers Using the IMDB IMDB SearchClicking the IMDB icon next to the title field will open the IMDB search window see screenshot which will help you locating the required entry If you already know the IMDBID of the movie you can enter it in the corresponding field hit the corresponding Subm
35. language files for languages which you don t need setup lang_ sql This will free some hundred kilobyte at maximum And you must not delete the English language file setup lang_en sql since this is the only one really required Permissions for some directories need to be updated When retrieving data from the IMDB sites you probably want to use the images as well To have this working out of the box the corresponding directory moviepic imdb is made read writable for all users which may be a security risk It must however be read writable for the web server so your options are 4 leaving it as is since it works implying the security risk 4 as root change the ownership of this folder to the web servers user e g chown www data www data imdb and then revoke the permissions from the group and others e g chmod 0755 imdb or for paranoia chmod 0700 imdb change the owner group only lite version of the previous option by e g chgrp www data imdb and then set the permissions correspondingly e g chmod 0775 imdb or chmod 0770 imdb Finally you may want to install additional templates for the label printing which may be done from inside the application and will be explained with the configuration and not installation Updating Depending on how you performed the installation updating from a previous version of phpVideoPro can be done in different ways Installation 2 e Using your package manager apt get update
36. lease send them to us so we can make them available for other users as well Localize the Online Help System 13 Though nobody did so up to now I don t give up hope that some day I will have at least one third party template set to offer Label Systems used The GD Label system as already introduced in the UserManual for printing is the first label printing system introduced to phpVideoPro many years ago It uses PHPs GD library API to create labels from image files Development for this system already stopped some years ago in favor of the PS labels Not that they are themselves easier to handle but with Postscript files it is much easier to achieve exact placement of objects on a page which is necessary if you want to use self adhesive label sheets which are available from different vendors Still there are reasons to decide for the one or other Your system may not be prepared to use Postscript oh you are not using Linux and you don t want or can t install the free Ghostscript to add this support this would be a reason to decide for the old GD Label system Or your PHP installation lacks the support for the GD library which would be a clear reason against it and for the PS Label system This is why we decided to let the old label system remain in the application though we favour the other one GD Labels As already explained above the GD label system uses image files to create labels utilizing the GD library that is
37. literal word restore 2 the name of the file without path to restore from So again an example could look like that backup php demo restore movies_2009 05 12 pvp Now you either get error messages or the restore succeeded Get IMDB IDs for your movies The script get_movie_ids phpis intended to find the IMDB IDs for those of your movies which have them not yet associated and update them into your database The added plus of these IDs is found in multiple things e when viewing an entry a click on its title can bring you directly to the corresponding IMDB page instead of issuing a search to find it e it gives you the possibility to do the same for the crew members as described on the page GetNameIMDBIDs Just to give a few examples How it works The script issues a search for the movies title against the configured IMDB site Then the result set is evaluated for different criteria Did the title match 100 Or did one of the movies AKAs match Is it the same year The same director Depending on your settings the movies record then is updated when certain criteria match Value in the Setting Description shipped version 100 match on title and year Ves itis RUE 100 match on title and year for AKA Yesitis TRUE 7 100 match on year take 1st entry i e Not really causes many false Swrite_yd 100 match on year and director eases oe z causes some BASE false positives On a run against a database with 5
38. lready set and correct ID should be logged nevertheless Neompars mode name updater How to compare names See the corresponding page P for details on the available modi name updater whether an existing names IMDBID should be updated if it already was set but we found the same name with a different IMDBID This could be the same person but as well a completely different one movie updater whether to update the movies entry when year and director match _yt f year matches dangerous d report_nochange Backup Script Settings This script only has one special setting Sinstance demo gt cleandb set to TRUE in the shipped config defines whether movies already existing in the database should be deleted prior to a movie restore Usually you will want them to be deleted first since you want to restore the state of the backup However setting this to FALSE movies from the backup would simply be appended which of course can and in most cases will cause duplicates User Management The user php script allows you to manage your phpVideoPro users from the command line Called without any parameters it will show its syntax so you don t need to return to this page everytime Syntax The script expects some parameters depending on the action to execute changing the password pass lt login gt lt password gt display account details show lt login gt list all defined users list e lt login gt
39. ls directory is writable for the web server there will be two more options You can download the LabelPack directly to your server and have it installed automatically plus you can deinstall unregister it and have the application also deleting the files belonging to the LabelPack Data Administration Backups Backup ManagementBackup and Restore Management for your phpVideoPro data you find in the Admin menus item Database Backup The form shown see screenshot allows you to select the backup type and whether the resulting backup file should be compressed on one side and on the other side lets you chose an existing backup to restore from plus whether you want to append these data to those already existing in your database or to purge the old data first To use this functionality you must define the backup directory in your inc config inc This directory needs to be readable and writeable by the web server the latter is needed if you want to store the backups directly on the server without that you can only create and download them The reason why this is not configurable via the web interface is to prevent people from abusing this functionality though they needed to have an account with administrative privileges to do so plus access to the file system to place a file to restore PSLabel Template Management 10 from But one never knows Sure you could simply do a database dump and file system backup But the integrated backup of
40. missions to your records and your account data Configuration User PreferencesIn the Edit menu you find an item called Preferences which is where you define your preferences regarding the applications configuration Here you can chose your favorite localization from multiple installed languages as long as the administrator did install any additional languages otherwise you may ask him whether your favorite is available and that s he may install it and set the default values used for newly created MovieRecords You also can define the settings for retrieving data from the IMDB sites you prefer this feature will also be discussed in the MovieRecords article plus some general settings like which template set to use how many entries you want at maximum per page when displaying UserManual Lists and what label sheet you want to use by default when UserManual Printing labels for your media Detailed help for the settings and options available you will always find when clicking the help icon on the right hand side of the corresponding section header Permissions on your Records Record PermissionsEach user has his own sets of records of course only if s he created some By default they only belong to him and nobody else can access them except the admin Selecting the entry Permissions on your records from the Edit menu you can grant other users the permission to read see your MovieRecords update and or delete them and even to add to
41. n up historical data you also can purge older and or ended sessions General 7 D Translation Management Language selectionphp VideoPro not only supports multiple users but also can support multiple languages so you can localize the application if needed Each user can select the language s he likes in his her preferences Some languages are already shipped with the application so you can install them on the Configuration screen Others are not yet available and we wait for you to provide them for the next version So whether your language is completely missing misses some phrases or needs some corrections you can do so from inside of phpVideoPro The first screen after selecting Edit Translations from the Admin menu lets you chose the target language you want to edit the translations for Not only installed languages are shown here since it may be you want to create a complete new language file If the language you selected was already installed existing translations will be loaded when you submit this initial form Edit TranslationsSo the following screens allow you to edit the translations for the language selected For each term the table shows you the internal translation code used by the application to identify the term together with the original translation and if available a comment describing what is meant e g in which context it is used And of course there is one editable field per term to allow you defining the new t
42. nd to base a set of labels on the same dimensions This eases creation of large sets of labels using the same size and position of fields but just differ in motives The configuration file Here comes an explanation of the configuration variables you have to use Explanation width height the size of the label how many lines of text should be put on the label in maximum If you have many movies movie clips on one medium not all of them may appear on the label then nr_coord the coordinates of the fields using the x1 y1 x2 y2 format where x1 y1 represents the Creating Label Templates 14 main_coord upper left and x2 y2 the lower right corner of the field In the first field we ll place the symb_coord medium s number without the media type the second one holds all the data see entry below and the third one is a symbol s place like I use to have on my labels that ship with phpVideoPro This symbol field is not filled by php VideoPro itself this is either a string if you just need one line of text per movie e g for video tapes side labels or an array You can place plain text in it will stay the same on all labels plus use variables to be replaced by the movies data Variables are to be marked by curly braces The next block contains a list of available variables You can mark one line of the array to hold the title i e using a font different from the other lines by making its first character a V
43. nfiguration items even those it doesn t need but who cares for that pvptools 18 D Structure of the configuration file Still the configuration file is a PHP source file which will simply be included by the scripts This means we need to stick to PHP code rules The file is split into sections separated by double line comments and sub sections separated by single line comments For this article only the first section named Configuration is of interest everything outside that is to be considered code that should not be changed by the user So the following paragraphs will deal with the sub sections of the Configuration section Global Configuration The first sub section deals with the setup of your php VideoPro installation s Since the pvptools scripts utilize the php VideoPro API they need to know where to find it and who is the admin in that installation having the required permissions As you could have multiple installations on the same server these settings are arranged as an array and its settings will be explained here reflecting the shipped example configuration Setting Default value Explanation tance demo gt dir Ivar www phpvideo Ropt airectory Obie phpVidepEro installation The userID of the admin user If you don t know tance demo gt adminID 1 it look it up in the php VideoPro Web Interface menu Admin Usermanagement If you have only one installation or just want to work with
44. no harm to your database but they will most likely fail to do their jobs Best is to always use the latest version of the tools with the latest version of phpVideoPro On an installation of phpVideoPro v0 9 3 for example the scripts of pvptools v0 1 will fail due to changed database and code structures so you have to use v0 2 here Before you run any of the IMDB scripts go to your phpVideoPro web interface log in as admin go to admin configure and check the IMDB settings that either caching is disabled or a valid cache directory is specified Otherwise you may destroy parts of your installation Download The latest and previous versions as well as the changelog can be found here The latest development code can be downloaded using this link Installation There is no special installation required Simply unpack the downloaded archive into a directory of your choice and keep the script files together with the configuration file in the same directory Some configuration will however be required and discussed in its article Configuration Starting with v0 3 of the pvptools package all configuration takes place in the file pvptools config php This has several advantages compared with the previous behaviour having the configuration within each file at the top of it e one central point for configuration e no duplicate settings e easier updates The only disadvantage I can see so far is that now each script loads all co
45. nstallations probably only one there are 3 things to configure e the base directory of your phpVideoPro installation required to include the API e the ID of the admin user to make sure you can access all data e whether all existing movies should be removed prior to a movie restore Syntax To see what parameters the script expects simply run it without any parameters specified Backup To create a backup call the script with 3 parameters 1 the name of the phpVideoPro installation you configured above 2 the literal word backup 3 what you want to backup movie sysconf or cats Now keep in mind that everything is written to the standard output so you need to redirect the output to a file in order to store the backup An example call could look like this backup php demo backup movie gt movies_2009 05 12 pvp For a test if everything works better take something smaller e g sysconf and do not redirect the output If you see regular error messages something went wrong But if you see undefinable binary stuff it probably worked Restore For a restore things look a bit different First the file will be read from disk and need to reside within the backup directory specified in your phpVideoPro configuration Next the backup type movie sysconf cats Removing a user 21 will be automatically detected Which leaves us again with three parameters 1 the name of the installation you configured above 2 the
46. o embed images we use EPS this way we can even embed JPeg files PS Labels are managed using LabelPacks each LabelPack being a collection of labels So again creating templates for this system consists of two steps Creating the EPS image files and creating the configuration GD Labels 15 file for the LabelPack We will explain both on the example of labels for CD DVD media Creating the EPS images 1 Create a squared image round the corners to safe ink Adjust the brightness so the text applied to the label will be easily readable 2 Resize the image to about 470x470 pixels at 72 DPI 3 Convert the image to EPS format e g using ImageMagicks mogrify command mogrify format eps2 colors 256 dither lt imagefile gt 4 Give the image a descriptive and unique name since all these files will reside in the same directory even with files from other LabelPacks it may be a good idea to prefix it with the LabelPack name Creating the configuration file To create the configuration file you may use one from an existing LabelPack as template They are usually well commented and thus should be easy to adapt The name of the configuration file which resides in the same directory as your EPS images created should reflect the name of your LabelPack and have the file extension pvlp Though the existing configuration files are well documented the format will be described here All empty lines and those starting with a ha
47. on including a contact sheet image to see how the contained labels look like edit the contents and install deinstall the LabelPack Edit LabelPack contents Edit PS LabelsClicking on the edit icon next to a LabelPack on the screen shown with previous paragraph you can view and modify the contents of that pack i e the single templates Again you can use the trashcan to delete a template you don t like or click the edit icon to show modify details as name size and type The files used you will only need to edit when creating your own LabelPack same applies to the sizes Adding new entries is not intended here Creating LabelPacks is described in the integrated help system of the application an article here maybe follows in the future De Install LabelPacks De Install LabelPacksClicking the actions icon on the main screen will open a new window which will display available actions for the selected LanguagePack Which options are available depends on your setup and whether the selected LabelPack is already installed There will be always an option to download the latest available revision If you already downloaded the pack and unpacked it into the pslabels subdirectory of your phpVideoPro installation you will also be able to install that revision i e to register its files with the database If the LabelPack was already installed you will also find the option to uninstall it i e unregister from the database If the pslabe
48. one of them define it here If you novas demo have multiple instances and need the scripts to work on all of them comment this out This will affect the syntax of the scripts which then expect the instance name as first parameter IMDB Updater Settings The next sub section deals with the settings for the two IMDB Updater scripts So if you don t want to use them you can skip this Setting Default value Explanation f movie updater whether to scan for IMDB IDs and update them if 9 instancedemo imdbid TRUE found Sinstancedemo rating TRUE movie updater whether ratings should be updated when found 200 on each run do not process more entries movies than defined here movie updater if a movie belongs to one of the categories mentioned here skip it Values must be comma separated cat_videoclip movie updater array of IDs to skip Please see the corresponding article for details at what index the script shall start 1 100 at which index the script shall stop processing Please see the corresponding article for details on these settings write_yt TRUE Structure of the configuration file 19 movie updater whether to update the movies entry if the movie title and year match Swieta movie updater whether to update the movies entry if one of the 7 AKAs and the year match write_y write_y movie updater whether to update the movies entry when only the name updater whether names with a
49. or active sessions as we will describe in this article Manage Users User ManagementFrom the Admin menu select Manage user accounts to access this function This will bring you to a screen where you can easily modify already existing users Simply check the permissions the user s shall have uncheck permissions you want to remove see screenshot Don t forget to click the Submit button to save your changes Click on the trashcan icon to remove a user or on the edit icon to edit user details such as the users comment or password To add a new user simply click on the Add User link in the lower right of the form This will bring you to a new page where you can enter the details for the new user to be created which are basically the same as you see in the screenshot plus the password Of course each user can change his her own password at any time and possibly should do so after the administrator has created the new account or reset the password the user has forgotten Manage Sessions Session ManagementThe item Manage Sessions from the Admin menu brings you to a screen like in this picture where you can manage active and past sessions you will see session details such as who has logged in from what remote machine at which time last activity of this session and whether the user already logged out By clicking the associated trashcan icon you easily can terminate a session Since users tend to forget their logout or simply to clea
50. ou don t know yet but you know the genre say you want to watch an action movie Check the categories you want to list movies for Or enter your favorite actor or director in the staff field and select whether you are looking for an actor director or what You even can give a range of ratings or limit the search to a specified media type and or language Specifying multiple items will combine them and search for movies matching all the criteria specified As a result you are presented with a list of movies to select from Check out where the corresponding media is lean back and enjoy the evening Browse Lists Browsing the MediaListThe View menu offers different lists to let you browse your collection You can display it by movie names see screenshot by actors directors or composers All these lists have at least three things in common They let you directly jump to movie details by clicking the movies media number you can go to the first last previous and next pages using the arrows at the top and bottom of the list and they respect the filter you defined How many entries you will find per page is defined in your preferences Next to the more specific MovieSearch this is a convenient way to browse your ever growing collection Printing Labels and Lists With phpVideoPro you also can print labels for your media as well as lists of your movies There are different systems available as we will show here PSLabels Printing PSLab
51. ou need a previous backup to be restored you again have to ask the GDLabels 29 administrator who can do it Restoring data 30 Terms This article sums up wiki pages explaining terms used on this site e IzzySoft who s doing it e phpVideoPro about this application e LabelPacks they are used for label printing e Support in case you need it e HelpNeeded we need it IzzySoft IzzySoft was founded in 1995 as a sideline to the owners study of computer sience and of course to fund it somehow In the early years IzzySoft mainly served web development and configuration installation issues for computers and small networks The focus changed in 2002 2003 when the last normal employment ended and the founder decided to start freelancing for 100 Since then IzzySoft concentrates on Oracle support This includes the service on site installation configuration tuning etc as well as some pieces of software provided to the public under GPL like this project you are watching right now More information e IzzySoft Homepage e IzzySoft Oracle stuff e IzzySoft Software page e IzzySoft deb rpm repositories phpVideoPro Intro If you ve got too many DVDs VideoCDs and video tapes to handle then you need a better system That s exactly why phpVideoPro was created This program is all you need to get your huge collection under control It puts your information at your fingertips History
52. ou would like To give you a glance here are some of the packs Historical Motives Simple Pictures Simple Colors Desert Motives Landscape Motives Mountain Motives Solar System Motives The original VHS tape templates Support Support Methods The preferred support method is to open a ticket To stay up to date with the responses you may want to create your own account first check the links above Communication can also be done by mail the documentation of the software usually gives you an address for that Still we prefer you open a ticket if not stated otherwise e g in a support contract Support Levels Support is granted in different levels If possible Not included Support by Mail Yes Yes Yes __ Support by Ticket __ Yes Yes Yes Support by Phone No Yes Yes Support by IRC Notes Packages are available to include multiple projects 2 Provided on a not payed base other things may have higher priority e g payed support 3 Usually there will be an immediate response Workdays are Mon Fri except holidays 4 If not payed for we decide whether we want to implement a new feature 5 If payed for we want to implement a new feature and certainly will do Exceptions are things which are not possible to implement because of technical reasons 6 Not included means you either have to pay separately gt or wait 7 You may find somebody on irc freenode net in the channel izzysoft if necessary
53. p some entries Play with Sskip_to stop_at and the skip_id array as suited the latter is explained on the GetMovieIMDBIDs page Conclusion If you have been running the GetMovieIMDBIDs script before or always gathered your data with the IMDB feature at least the first run is worth it it takes you a minute to set it up and start it and then you can leave it alone How it works 24 User Manual This manual introduces you into the usage of phpVideoPro You will learn about available features and how to use them and may use the manual as a reference While the main intention of this manual is to get you started with the application you will probably better refer to the included context sensitive help system on your later daily use of the program The following items are covered by this manual e UserManual UserPreferences Adjust the settings to your convenience and permit limit other users permissions to your movie records e UserManual Backups How to maintain backups of your records e UserManual MovieRecords Create edit and delete movie records e UserManual Printing Print labels and lists e UserManual Filter Use the filter system to limit listings e UserManual MovieSearch How to find records you created for your movies e UserManual Lists What lists are available for viewing printing Preferences The user preferences can be divided into three sections Preferences regarding the applications configuration per
54. phpvideopro yum update phpvideopro e using the Makefile make install e manually copying the files from the Tar archive In any case you afterwards need to run the update manager by pointing your browser to the setup update index php page Configuration Web Server First there may be some adjustments needed for the web server If you run Apache and its configuration permits you to specify options for the directory phpVideoPro was installed into i e AllowOverride Options or AllowOverride A11 is set for this directory this is done automatically by the shipped htaccess file Otherwise you have to take care for this manually using one of the following options 1 changing your Apache configuration to permit the use of options by a htaccess file 2 changing your Apache configuration by copying the options from the htaccess file to the appropriate section there 3 apply the changes mentioned in the htaccess file globally in your php ini If you decide for b or c you should remove the htaccess file afterwards to prevent an Internal Server Error 500 when Apache finds it but doesn t allow the options to be applied To help you with your decision e b and c are slightly faster than a e a gives you more flexibility a later update can modify the options when required so you don t need to care about this in the future e using b or c you have to remove the htaccess file again when updating e c would apply the chang
55. r movies Crew Members oooconoccnnocccnonccnonnnononannnnccnnononnnconnononnn cono conan ccnnnccnnnnnns 23 HOWI WOAKS ii ea 23 AI NN 24 CONCLUSION A ANNO 24 User Mania AE E chen scbessscsceestescedesessessseesceeseosceevecsscesedessossedesosssdeseceSeseuceSesseosessacteecesbecesesscoesdesteeteedeecs 25 Preferences ici ssaissslavdccslssiswsiscsgeevasadevasasacedscadcasesansoves deidad 25 COMMS UAL OM E bak a aE eaen Ea aoaaa A aa Aa ooie oretan 25 Permissions on your Records ieia t coerce E aa ibn soos eE SEKE ETE 25 PENODI A AEE TSE EAE eSS 25 Biltering Movies ssc a o ace dende cue E a Be Al 26 Movie RECO a OTE Ea Ea AE a AAA ES RO a Ada 26 Creating A NEW tecotd urnas A oia 26 Edit Delete Mover acacia is 27 A RC 27 AA A O IN 28 Printing Labels and DASS ii Ii in dd o a 28 PS Labels nn A s 28 GD abel A E NN 29 A ORTA 29 Maintain Backups ea tia 29 Creating DACKUDS ci a oir 29 REStOPING datar aii ill illa 29 A O 31 AAA A RN A A 31 MOTE IDIOMA AA AA A a des 31 phpVideOP roca A AE DA AA in Aid tia 31 LO e qe taco alos aso das oa coat dl te elos ae ean de cer cia ed tele 31 O NN 31 Features iii dadas 31 RREQUITEIMENLS noniin naa a A tii 32 Ute AREE AE EE NEEE EEOAE A E E E EAA S 32 LabelPacks o a AA 32 SU od e a ae di de do dad taco ana pa ld Sales do 100 33 Table of Contents Terms Label Des a A ee ts TES do rd e ht Ll e de ed cece DA Administrators Manual While the Users Manual describes issues of the usual work with php
56. ranslation for your language A few more elements of this form may be worth mentioning One is the Shortkey Bar at the top of the table which lets you jump to the page starting with the clicked letter Very useful if you e g create translations for a language not yet supported by phpVideoPro Since there are many phrases needed you probably won t do them all in one run Just remember where you stopped and the shortkeys let you jump to the desired page or at least close to it The other elements you will find at the bottom First this is one Update button to save your changes which you should always do before switching to another page and second a link to Save target translations to a file The latter one also is very important We would really appreciate if you send us the resulting file so we may include it with future versions of php VideoPro The other navigation elements are self explaining Arrows to move one page forward or backward and the same to move to the first resp last page A last word on the translations Terms which are exactly the same in your target language as they are in the fallback language English you must not translate they will be taken from there By not translating them you keep the database smaller and thus faster and the application needs to load less data which again speeds it up Technical Data Categories Manage CategoriesTo manage available categories select Administrate Categories from the
57. s in almost all places it allows you to adjust its look and feel without any PHP knowledge some HTML knowledge is needed for this however or to create your own label design You can even have phpVideoPro talking to you in your own language 1f it not already does by creating a special language file using the built in translation editor don t forget to place it here afterwards to have it included with future versions of phpVideoPro and to be mentioned in the Hall of Fame The program does distinguish between DVDs VideoCDs and Videotapes new media types can be added easily via the administration interface While you may have enough tapes and DVDs to open up your own version of Blockbuster phpVideoPro wasn t designed to cater to video shops The current release wasn t made to log multiple copies of the same item However multiple simultan users are served together with their own preferences and permissions with the help of cookies and a built in session management More to come If you want to know more you may explore the incomplete Feature List or try out the Demo installed on this server Requirements e Database either MySQL v3 28 32 or higher recommended is v5 or PostgreSQL 7 1 or higher e a Webserver with support for PHP tested only with Apache e PHPS better 5 2 with support for the selected database Future New features are planned and development still goes on The frequency of new releases is not very steady
58. scription When you are done click on the button labeled Transfer data to edit screen and the selected data will be transfered and optionally the IMDB search window will close automatically Media Data Now you only have to fill the missing data again some preselections are already done based on your preferences audio format etc and the aquiration date is preset by the current date Change the values as required and finally hit the Create button Once the form is submitted you can e g change the technical data media type and the like by clicking on the corresponding fields or hit the Edit button for other details Clicking the movie title or the names of staff members will bring you to the corresponding IMDB page Comments and formatting While all fields only except normal text and no formatting some formatting can be used in the comments field Having retrieved and added an image from the IMDB site you already see an example of how images can be included There are more macros available e g for embedding URL links selected HTML tags are also permitted For details simply use the integrated help system by either clicking the help icon in the title bar or opening the help menu and select from there Starting with v0 9 4 the comments field includes a WYSIWYG editor to help you with the most common formattings You can manually switch between this editor and the plain text area using the radio buttons next to it while the
59. select the default language for the application e Movies and Media Set defaults for the sound and video formats used as well as details for your media e Cookies Cookie details as whether to use them plus their expiry time and session timeouts e IMDB Detailed setup for retrieving movie data from the IMDB sites as site s to use cache settings and what data to use by default e User Backups If and how normal users may maintain backups of their own data e General Settings not fitting in any other category as printer settings HTML header settings template settings etc Language Settings phpVideoPro already comes with support for different languages But the corresponding data with the exception of English will not be automatically installed into the database but are provided as sql files in the setup directory So it is the task of the administrator to decide which language s should be available in the application and which should be used by default Not all localizations are complete we happily accept updates The developer himself keeps track of the English and German ones so these should usually be up to date If someone decides for an incomplete localization missing terms will be substituted from the English file In this section you find the following settings Setting Scan for new Tells phpVideoPro to check the setup directory for new language files available and to language files update their availa
60. sh mark will be considered comments and ignored for the processing The first real line must specify the packs revision Usually you start with rev 1 and increase the number on updates The next line will hold the packs general information It starts with the word pack followed by a colon and the revision and then come separated by semi colons a short name for the LabelPack one word a more descriptive name a description and your nick name as creator An example would look like this Tipe Oe 1 Pix CD DVD Labels CD DVD labels with motives from our solar system Izzy url http projects izzysoft de to The next and final block lists up the templates you created Each line starts with the word file followed by a colon and the type id Type IDs are ype po VS Top Label VA Side Lal Bo EDV Label Again separated by semi colons follow the name to be displayed the file name of the EPS file you created the file name of the PS file the template is based on just have a look at available ps files in the pslabels directory for CDs DVDs this is usually common_cddvd ps and the coordinates of the image lower x y upper x y in our example 0 0 470 470 Don t wonder that this is upside down that is how Postscript works So an example configuration file could look like this he syntax used here leral info Tipe creator PS Labels 16 1 Pix CD DVD Labels CD DVD labels with motives from our solar system
61. t IMDB 6 SN reworking all your entries better forbid them to be cached until you re done This is only interesting for integration of phpVideoPro into a site already is protected by HTTP Basic Auth phpVideoPro then tries to use that realm which requires the user information to be the same on both ends Changing the password No on one end thus requires it to be changed on the other end as well If you don t need this functionality disable it Limit displayed lists to this number of entries If you got many records you will praise me for this Of course you can skip through the pages to see all entries Other than the previous point this refers to the page breaks for ASCII lists to be printed as you find them in the Print menu Here the administrator can affect the title of the browser window phpVideoPro VX xX x lt site info gt pagename Filters The filter settings are described in detail in the UserManual The screen looks exactly the same only difference is that what the admin sets up is the default pre setting for new users visitors and stored into the database while the users variant is their personal one and usually stored in their cookies User and Session Management As with all administrative functions you get access to the User and Session Management via the Admin menu of course only when you are logged in with administrative privileges You can create modify delete users as well as their past
62. te set has been created you may go to the UserPreferences page and activate your template set phpVideoPro will automatically detect the new directory and offer the new template set to you so there s nothing else to do in the configuration 7 If you are satisfied with your work please consider packing the directory into an archive zip tar gz or whatever you use and send it to the developers so it may be distributed and other people can use it as well Of course credits would go to you Creating Label Templates As you probably already learned in the UserManual phpVideoPro uses templates also to create labels for your media We already described there that two different label engines are built into phpVideoPro Since they differ a lot they cannot share their templates Those created for one system cannot be used by the other Few templates are already shipped with the application some more can be downloaded and installed via the application itself as described in the AdminManual But still it could be that you either don t find anything you like there s no accounting for taste or for other reasons need some other special templates So this article describes how to create them One more word before we go into details Once you created a set of templates we are interested in a copy Other users maybe interested in using your creation as well So if you don t mind and the templates created are not too personal to you p
63. the application While in the original configuration everything is in English when switching the primary language to e g German the Edit menu would be named Bearbeiten and the corresponding help page would be in German too If your favorite native language is not present or incomplete you may be annoyed by either the mix phrases help pages not present in the primary language will automatically be substituted by the English originals or complete absence of your favorite language But it is up to you to change this I the author of the program cannot speak all languages and thus not provide all localizations So this depends on people like you creating the localizations and sending them to me for inclusion with future versions What is most often misinterpreted You don t need to do all of the work if your time does not permit Even if you just did part of it say a couple of phrases or help pages please send them to us somebody else may continue your work and thus you may get updated files in turn Localize the Web Interface Localizing the web interface basically is editing the translations available This is described in the TranslationManagement article Localize the Online Help System The online help system is using an older version of the FAQMaker API which may be replaced by the recent version in the future So you can check the iFAQMaker project for what the syntax of the files is Not all macros described there
64. tly in Stereo while bought DVDs are more likely to use Dolby 5 1 Preselecting the right format may ease data collection later on The same just that here Color will be the right selection in almost all cases except for fans collecting only ancient movies Today mostly 16 9 you don t even get notebooks with other screens Cookies Setting Enable Shall phpVideoPro use cookies to safe user preferences If this is deactivated they will be Cookies stored in the database instead y How long cookies shall be valid they will be removed once they become invalid Session is Lifetime a special case where they are removed as soon as the user closes the browser Inaktivity A security setting If some logged in user is inactive for a longer interval the session will be Timeou invalidated and the user needs to login again IMDB The IMDB settings only have an effect if the IMDB API is installed along The User column again tells whether a setting can be overridden by user preferences Setting There are a couple of localized IMDB Sites around offering the advantage to search for the localized movie title Chose the best matching one here Disadvantage of the localized sites is they only localized the interface not the content which makes it hard to parse by the API The added value of teaching the API all those localizations does not at all correspond to the work needed for that so the API instead requires an En
65. wels metaphone i P with accents Somehow How to use the script This script is much easier to use than the GetMovieIMDBIDs script and you will be finished much faster Chances for false positives are much lower since here we already have a reference via the movies IMDB ID Though you will need more than one run for the best results If you don t care for as many as possible you can be done in one run with Scompare_mode set to equal this will probably already match 80 of the referenced crew members maybe even more But again we describe here how to get most out of it 1 Check the settings in the configuration file and make sure that the directory and the ID of the admin user are correct the latter you find on the User Management page 2 Set Scompare_mode equal Sskip_to 1 and Sstop_at 999999 or higher and run the script with its output spooled to a file e g get_name_ids php demo tee update log 3 Check the output It is easy to tell which entries have been updated If you get lost in a too large file just run the same command again with report_nochange FALSE so it does not mention those entries it did not need to touch optionally move your previous log file away Now you should easily see which names could not be updated and why 4 Based on the results of the previous step you may decide to run the script again using a different compare mode This time you may also want to go by little steps or ski
66. your MovieRecords so you might get the one or other record as present It is completely up to you whom you grant which permissions and of course you can revoke them at any later time Changes take effect immediately after you hit the Update button Account Data Account Dataln the upper right corner of the application screen or at the right end of the menu bar you will find your login name Clicking on it brings you to a screen similar to the screenshot next to this paragraph User Manual 25 where you can edit your account data As a normal user you can only change your password here Having administrative permissions you also can change your and other users but for this better see the AdminManual login name and access permissions Filtering Movies Filtering MoviesUsing filter is an easy way to limit lists to only display content of interest Given relatively global criteria in opposition to relatively precise criteria using the MovieSearch you can use it to e g suppress things you don t want to have in the lists generally when browsing e g switch off all your old VHS tapes or only list your favorite categories by default As with the MovieSearch selecting multiple criteria will result in only those movies being shown in the list that match all of them However no movie record will be skipped using the forward backward buttons in the detail view There are two corresponding entries in the Filter menu Unset Filter wil

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