phpVideoPro 0.1 (Tools)

phpVideoPro is a program to manage your collection of DVDs, Video CDs, and video tapes. phpVideoPro project stores all data in a database, and provides you with features for adding/changing entries, displaying lists, printing labels and lists, and more.

An online help system is built-in to guide you when necessary, and an integrated user/session management protects your data against unauthorized access. Support for multiple languages is provided, and supported databases include MySQL and PostgreSQL.

This script is intended to automatic update some data in your phpVideoPro installation with information retrieved from the IMDB. You dont need it if you never ran a version less than v0.8.2 of phpVideoPro and always used the IMDB query window to retrieve all information, since it will just update the IMDB ID (where not set) and the rating (where not set) of the movies within your database.

The script was tested on 3 different installations by me during its development. The latest test was run against an untouched installation with $write_yt, $write_aka_yt and $write_yd enabled. From the over 500 movies w/o the IMDB ID set, it automatically updated about 270 movies correctly (which is more than 50%). While many movies just have not been identified, most have been matched perfectly - only 3 false positives (the script assumed them being matched, while they didnt match) have been encountered during the process - all 3 on the $write_yd issue (more on this later). So it saves you a lot of work if you want all/most movies have the rating values set.

The script itself makes use of the phpVideoPro "libraries" to do its job. This means, for many things it uses the settings of the given installation, e.g. concerning the IMDB cache and the like.