Gonna program a DVD Database in PHP/Mysql, anyone interested?

[ndee]

Just wondering if someone would be interessted in such a tool.

 

[beer]

What would you be offering that DVD Profiler was not?

 

[ndee]

Originally posted by: Elemental007
What would you be offering that DVD Profiler was not?

linky?

 

[her209]

word

 

[mugs]

DVD afficionado does that too... although one thing I'd like to see these sites do is take more advantage of the fact that they're RELATIONAL databases - they could very easily let you click on the name of an actor and see all of the DVDs in your collection that have that actor in them.

One question though ndee - where would you get all of the data on the thousands of movies that have been made in the last hundred years?

 

[EyeMWing]

I'd love you if you included VHS capability, CD/DVD-Audio capability (with tracklists) and data CD/DVD capability.

 

[ndee]

Hm, I thought I would just make a database for myself, and everyone again for himself so that way, the DB would grow and grow It was meant for a small private project actually.

 

[beer]

www.dvdprofiler.com

It requries a download to enter data, so it isn't entirely web-based.

 

[Ameesh]

there is no way you can match dvd profiler

 

[ndee]

Originally posted by: Ameesh
there is no way you can match dvd profiler

I just want something fun to program. It'll be web-based compared to DVD Profiler. And anyway, I don't give a sh!t what especially you are thinking.

 

[BaboonGuy]

Originally posted by: Ameesh
there is no way you can match dvd profiler

why you gotta hold a ATOT brotha down?

 

[TCPpacket]

guzzlefish.

 

[Muadib]

Originally posted by: Elemental007
www.dvdprofiler.com

It requries a download to enter data, so it isn't entirely web-based.

Linked!!!

 

[ndee]

I also thought of a feature like Barcode Reading and stuff but..... I gonna start small

 

[notfred]

What exactly is the point of it? I can't think of any way that having a database of the DVDs I own would be useful.

 

[ndee]

Originally posted by: notfred
What exactly is the point of it? I can't think of any way that having a database of the DVDs I own would be useful.

If you have a couple of DVDs and someone asks "hey ndee, what movie shall we watch tonight?" I can quickly look'em up. My brain is getting stupid, that's why. And if you and some friends put that database together, you don't need to get really every DVD you want to.

 

[notfred]

Hmm I fail to see how that is superior to someone asking "Hey, notfred, what movie shall we watch tonight?" And then I can point to the big stack of DVDs under the TV.

 

[ndee]

Originally posted by: notfred
Hmm I fail to see how that is superior to someone asking "Hey, notfred, what movie shall we watch tonight?" And then I can point to the big stack of DVDs under the TV.

What if you're not at home?

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: ndee

Originally posted by: notfred
Hmm I fail to see how that is superior to someone asking "Hey, notfred, what movie shall we watch tonight?" And then I can point to the big stack of DVDs under the TV.

What if you're not at home?

Well then I couldn't really watch any of my movies anyway, since they're sitting underneath my TV at home.

 

[ndee]

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: ndee

Originally posted by: notfred
Hmm I fail to see how that is superior to someone asking "Hey, notfred, what movie shall we watch tonight?" And then I can point to the big stack of DVDs under the TV.

What if you're not at home?

Well then I couldn't really watch any of my movies anyway, since they're sitting underneath my TV at home.

I'm on my way home from work, a friend calls me. "Well, just check URL and pick one.".

 

[Snuffaluffaguss]

dvd profiler has you beat by a mile, including the barcode entry..

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: ndee

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: ndee

Originally posted by: notfred
Hmm I fail to see how that is superior to someone asking "Hey, notfred, what movie shall we watch tonight?" And then I can point to the big stack of DVDs under the TV.

What if you're not at home?

Well then I couldn't really watch any of my movies anyway, since they're sitting underneath my TV at home.

I'm on my way home from work, a friend calls me. "Well, just check URL and pick one.".

Well, I guess it might be useful if that happens a lot. No one has ever called me in the car to ask what DVDs I own, though.

 

[ndee]

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: ndee

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: ndee

Originally posted by: notfred
Hmm I fail to see how that is superior to someone asking "Hey, notfred, what movie shall we watch tonight?" And then I can point to the big stack of DVDs under the TV.

What if you're not at home?

Well then I couldn't really watch any of my movies anyway, since they're sitting underneath my TV at home.

I'm on my way home from work, a friend calls me. "Well, just check URL and pick one.".

Well, I guess it might be useful if that happens a lot. No one has ever called me in the car to ask what DVDs I own, though.

Just happend last week. It's also for the "fun-of-progrmaming", like your pic-decoder. And I'm using the train to go to work

 

[ndee]

Originally posted by: Snuffaluffaguss
dvd profiler has you beat by a mile, including the barcode entry..

the barcode thingie is actually a pretty simple stuff. Most features are just causing a lot of time to program, not that it would be complicated to program such a program, given I had enough time. You could also make a result-parser for Amazon, so every request would be sent to Amazon and then the results would be parsed. Not too hard.

 

[halik]

Originally posted by: notfred
Hmm I fail to see how that is superior to someone asking "Hey, notfred, what movie shall we watch tonight?" And then I can point to the big stack of DVDs under the TV.

im with notfred on that one... no point in knowing your DVD collection if you dont have a physical access to it. Plus majority of people know what dvds they have. If you run a library or soemthing, i could see the use ...otherwise not at all. That goes also towards the cue cat aspect of it