myDVDs 3.0.6 Released!
28 November 2006In following with the previous release, additional XHTML 1.0 compliant changes were implemented. The application is nearly XHTML 1.0 Strict compliant (it may very well be already!), but I still have a few more rounds of tests to make in that regard.
This release sees a lot more bugfix and steps taken to clean up the code. It sports a new simplified installer and an easier upgrade script.
READ THE docs/UPGRADING DOCUMENTATION BEFORE UPGRADING. THE PROCEDURE HAS CHANGED!
Some additional effort has been made toward the support of special characters (specifically the apostrophe (’)) in collection names, but it remains incomplete. Hence, do NOT use special characters in collection names.
All changes have been comitted to the SVN repository and solidified in the “myDVDs-3.0.6″ branch. The “trunk” of the SVN tree will remain as the development branch.
On a whim (primarily since I was re-working the install script), I created a wordpress-stype theme which is based off of the wordpress installation app. I will be tinkering more and more with the themes in future release in order to make them more useful.Full details of all of the changes can be found in the CHANGELOG file.
As usual, it can be downloaded in multiple formats:
2 Responses to “myDVDs 3.0.6 Released!”
January 1st, 2007 at 12:37 am
I had some difficulty adding new DVDs to my collection via the web interface (a new record was added but all the fields were NULL). I confirmed that the UPCs were correct and that the DVDs were listed in the current Region1 data set so I suspect there’s a problem in the 3.0.6 code or the upgrade from 3.0.5 to 3.0.6. Searching seems to work, though I’ve had some trouble with it; I need to do more diagnosis.
The UPC_IMPORT.php script seemed out of date and it couldn’t find the include files or connect to the database. I rewrote it in perl and posted it to http://apthorpe.cynistar.net/code/mydvds/
I’ve tested the script and it seems to work. If you like it, feel free to add it to the myDVDs distribution. FWIW, I ran it through perltidy and perlcritic to make sure it meets current best-practice standards for formatting and code idiom so it should suck less than the average perl script.
Also, I added a two lines to the import_covers.sh script to remove empty image files and directories. This requires people to have find and xargs installed but usually that’s not a problem on modern systems.
Thanks for a great application and happy new year!
January 1st, 2007 at 1:24 pm
Two more things: I added a bit of error-checking to import_upc so it doesn’t try to insert records that already exist. Redundant INSERTs failed in the previous version; the code is a bit cleaner and quieter now.
Also, I added a check to import_covers.sh to avoid downloading covers that already exist. This (and the 5-second sleep between requests) should take some of the load off tampoo.com.