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https://github.com/izzysoft/phpvideopro

a PHP based software to manage your private collection of videos on BD, DVD, CD and tapes
https://github.com/izzysoft/phpvideopro

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a PHP based software to manage your private collection of videos on BD, DVD, CD and tapes

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README 

          
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.



phpVideoPro was inspired by Bernd Rickers' *VideoPro,* which was available in a

DOS-based clipper application (latest release in 1994) as well as in a Windows

version (starting from about 1993 - this was then known as Video-5). *phpVideoPro*

was designed using PHP because of the cross-platform abilities and the added

plus of having your information available anywhere at anytime.



For more details, please see the documentation in the projects wiki.



### Features

The program allows you to add and change entries as needed - on your request,

it utilizes the [IMDB](http://imdb.com/) (Internet Movie DataBase) to retrieve

information for this task, using the

[IMDBPHP](https://github.com/tboothman/imdbphp) class also available separately

(with *IMDBPHP* being restructured and further developed after the last changes

to *phpVideoPro* this feature might be broken meanwhile, though). *phpVideoPro*

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 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…



*phpVideoPro* is widely configurable. Making use of templates 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 (if

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 simultaneous users are served

together with their own preferences and permissions with the help of cookies

and a built-in session management.



### Requirements

* Database: MySQL and PostgreSQL are supported. Experiments have also been made

  with SQLite, and it seems to work.

* a Webserver with support for PHP (tested only with Apache)

* PHP (version 5 or higher) with support for the selected database



### Future

*phpVideoPro* is not actively developed at the currently. I *might* decide to

pick it up again at some point, but it's rather doubtful my time permits. This

is why I decided to move the code to Github and have the project „archived“

there; feel free to fork it and let me know about further development on your

end.