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Those banners that show recently watched movies

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	Mithi
	Sushi Annihilator

Registered: March 13, 2007

Reputation: Superior Rating

Posts: 2,216

Posted:

Quoting pauls42:

Quote:
Although doesn't seem to have had any affect.. (and yes I did update phpdvdprofiler)

I still see:
[quality] => 100

How?

If you give an invalid Username some Servers output the existing users, see e.g. my users or
yours

cya, Mithi

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	hayley taylor
	Past Contributor

Registered: March 14, 2007

Reputation: High Rating

Posts: 1,022

Posted:

Quoting Mithi:

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Quoting richierich:
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now with 80 quality

89764 Bytes ... you should upload the localsiteconfig.php after editing

cya, Mithi

oops

now done

	pauls42
	Reg: 31/01/2003

Registered: March 13, 2007

Posts: 2,692

Posted:

Quoting Mithi:

Quote:
Quoting pauls42:
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Although doesn't seem to have had any affect.. (and yes I did update phpdvdprofiler)

I still see:
[quality] => 100

How? If you give an invalid Username some Servers output the existing users, see e.g. my users or
yours

cya, Mithi

I don't understand why it isn't working for me.

I've uploaded the file twice now (localsiteconfig.php) and have applied the update twice on the web site. It goes through and produces all the messages on the screen but this change is never being applied.

I know I haven't updated the collection.xml so its possible I suppose that since that hasn't cahnged it doesn't apply any changes.

It will have to wait until shatterday and I'll load up a new collection file and try again.

Paul

	pauls42
	Reg: 31/01/2003

Registered: March 13, 2007

Posts: 2,692

Posted:

as a different query - I haven't loaded the full cover images, only the small images, since I couldn't see where you would see large covers anyway within the program?

Am I just being blind? Or am I missing something..?

Paul

	RossRoy

Registered: March 13, 2007

Posts: 793

Posted:

Quoting pauls42:

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Am I just being blind? Or am I missing something..?

That's the thing. You don't see where you can click to see the bigger images, because they are not there

Try clicking the images in the detail view of the DVD, or, the "Front Cover Gallery" option from the sliding menu on my site

	Mithi
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Registered: March 13, 2007

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Posted:

Quoting pauls42:

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I don't understand why it isn't working for me.

Me neither.

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I've uploaded the file twice now (localsiteconfig.php) and have applied the update twice on the web site.

That isn't even neccessary, just the new localsiteconfig.php and then reload the image should do the trick.
Only thing I could think of right now where to create a second user, just to see what happens then.

cya, Mithi

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	ajm
	dvd-aholic

Registered: March 13, 2007

Posts: 525

Posted:

the other thing to do to make watched stats and the sig strips load quicker is in on your phpdvdprofiler web server create a directory called say 'imagecache' and change the permissions to 777 (ok, that's really bad but no real issue here). The in localsiteconfig.php set $imagecachedir to 'imagecache/'. It will then cache really tiny thumbnails rather than generating them everytime they are required. It will regenerate them if the original file is newer than the tiny thumbnail.

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	RossRoy

Registered: March 13, 2007

Posts: 793

Posted:

Quoting ajm:

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It will then cache really tiny thumbnails rather than generating them everytime they are required. It will regenerate them if the original file is newer than the tiny thumbnail.

Is that folder getting cleaned once in a while? Maybe you could add in the update procedure something to empty the folder before re-generating the static sig strip?

	pauls42
	Reg: 31/01/2003

Registered: March 13, 2007

Posts: 2,692

Posted:

Quoting Mithi:

Quote:
Quoting pauls42:
Quote:
I don't understand why it isn't working for me.
Me neither.
Quote:
I've uploaded the file twice now (localsiteconfig.php) and have applied the update twice on the web site.

That isn't even neccessary, just the new localsiteconfig.php and then reload the image should do the trick.
Only thing I could think of right now where to create a second user, just to see what happens then.

cya, Mithi

This is the section of my localsiteconfig

// 'ME' configuration
// This lot control what the watched stats 'me' functionality does.
$me_w = 61;
$me_h = 85;
$me_num = 5;
$me_bgcol = "C8C8C8";
$me_font = "arial.ttf";
$me_fontcol = "000000";
$me_fontsize = 10;
$me_hborder = 3;
$me_wborder = 6;
$me_padding = 6;
$me_tmsg = "What #NAME#'s Watched Recently.";
$me_bmsg = "As of #DATE#";
$me_talign = "c";
$me_balign = "l";
$me_namelist = "";
$me_qual = 70;

Paul

	pauls42
	Reg: 31/01/2003

Registered: March 13, 2007

Posts: 2,692

Posted:

Quoting ajm:

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the other thing to do to make watched stats and the sig strips load quicker is in on your phpdvdprofiler web server create a directory called say 'imagecache' and change the permissions to 777 (ok, that's really bad but no real issue here). The in localsiteconfig.php set $imagecachedir to 'imagecache/'. It will then cache really tiny thumbnails rather than generating them everytime they are required. It will regenerate them if the original file is newer than the tiny thumbnail.

This is what I'm doing. And there are a whole load of small files there - all 3k.. And one big file paul.jpg which is 70k.

I've tried deleting the large file to see if I get a smaller banner.. but..

Paul

	FredLooks
	phpDVDProfilerDude D5/7/2

Registered: March 13, 2007

Posts: 350

Posted:

@Paul:
The localsiteconfig.php on your machine has an entry for $profiles["Paul"] that sets quality=100. This overrides the $me_qual value =70 also in localsiteconfig.php

-fred

	Mithi
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Registered: March 13, 2007

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Posts: 2,216

Posted:

Quoting pauls42:
If you followed JohnDs installationguide you should find
$profiles = array (search exactly for that string)
somewhere in your localsiteconfig, make the adjustments there.
See Watched statistics roughly at the middle of the page.

cya, Mithi

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	pauls42
	Reg: 31/01/2003

Registered: March 13, 2007

Posts: 2,692

Posted:

Quoting FredLooks:

Quote:
@Paul:
The localsiteconfig.php on your machine has an entry for $profiles["Paul"] that sets quality=100. This overrides the $me_qual value =70 also in localsiteconfig.php

Oh.. you mean its in two places.. duh..

Sorted now..

Paul

	ajm
	dvd-aholic

Registered: March 13, 2007

Posts: 525

Posted:

The large files in the imagecache directory are only used if you you specify it in your dvdprofiler or whatever signature specifically.

For example as some forums don't allow dynamic images, you can't link directly to the ws.php script. This is ok to do here, but say thedvdforums.com don't allow it.

So, then you can do :-

[ a href="http://www.dvdaholic.me.uk/phpdvdprofiler/"][ img src="http://www.dvdaholic.me.uk/phpdvdprofiler/imagecache/dvdp.jpg" /]

remove the space after the [ (both places)

As for tidying up the imagecache, I can add some code to do that. I'll probably change it to just delete files over 30 days old, which should be enough

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