Table of Contents

  1. pvptools
    1. Installation
      1. Requirements
      2. Download
      3. Installation
    1. Backup and Restore
      1. Configuration
      2. Syntax
      3. Backup
      4. Restore
    1. Get IMDB IDs for your movies
      1. How it works
      2. How to use the script
      3. Conclusion
    1. Get IMDB IDs for your movies Crew Members
      1. How it works
      2. How to use the script
      3. Conclusion
    1. User Management
      1. Syntax
      2. Removing a user
    1. Configuration
      1. Structure of the configuration file
      2. Global Configuration
      3. IMDB Updater Settings
      4. Backup Script Settings

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 phpVideoPro 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 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.

Last modified by izzy, 02/24/09 14:47:54 (19 months ago)