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aviManager - Manual
Chapter 7 - FAQ

Feel free to email me if your question is not mentioned here

• Q:Is it possible to add field 'foobar'?

  A:Yes, version 0.5 comes with a new database structure that makes this possible. Read comments in aviman.cfg.

  [ If you have an existing database, you have to convert movies.txt with the script convert_db.pl or change every movie manually ]

  Examples:

  1. A normal STRING field (like Name, Comment, ...), for example Ripper: open aviman.cfg and add following line in database definition %db:

     Ripper => [11, 'STRING', 0, 0, 0, 30, 75, 0, '', ''],

     Last column is a regex (for INTEGER fields etc.)

  2. An SELECT field (like Status), for example Type: add an hash somewhere BEFORE database definition

     %type = ('1'=>'DivX','2'=>'DVD','3'=>'SVCD','4'=>'MPEG','5'=>'VHS');

     and add line in %db:

     Type => [12, 'SELECT', 0, 1, 1, 20, 25, 1, '1', \%type],

• Q:Field 'foobar' is too short/big, where can I change it?

  A:Like everything else, in aviman.cfg. Open it with your favorite editor, goto preference questions, question 5. There you can see the datafield definition. Column six is form length and column seven is maximum field length. See comments in aviman.cfg.

• Q:I can't login. Whats f***ed up?

  A:See chapter "Problems" for details

• Q:I don't want/can't use .htaccess. Do I really need it? (obsolet)

  A:Yes, if you want more than one user (hey, this is our main feature). AviManager uses .htaccess to know, who's the current user. If you need just a little database for your seventeen movies, set $single_user_mode = 1. Then you have only one user ($single_user_name) and all multiuser features will be hidden (version 0.5pre4 or higher). But if you know a secure alternative for .htaccess (Session ID, cookies), let me know ...

• Q:There is no movie of the moment!

  A:You have less than 50 movies

• Q:I don't like this stupid copyright at the bottom of every page. Can I remove it?

  A:Yes.

• Q:I like aviManager and want to help! What can I do?

  A:Cool! Unfortunatly, the aviManager source code is not very beautiful and needs a lot of work, so programming jobs are no fun I think. But there are a lot of other jobs to do, for example:

  1. Translations

  2. A nice, classical aviman-logo for the new theme. the plain AVIMANAGER at the top looks not very good

  3. Header for new versions: Write me an email with your favorite actor and if I like her/him, be creative ;-)

  4. Documentation: I'm not a native english speaker and I am the author of this software...Two reasons why this documation is not as good as it should be. The source-code of this document is available from cvs. Type:

     cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.avimanager.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/avimanager login

     When prompted for a password for anonymous, simply press the Enter key. Then type

     cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.avimanager.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/avimanager co manual

     Edit it and send it to mriester@gmx.de!

  5. Templates (HTML, LaTeX) for movielists

• No MySQL? This sucks! Maybe, yes. The first reason is: the time I wrote this, there was no SQLite database. I wanted to keep the system requirements as low as possible. The second: the time I wrote this, I had no idea about Perl and SQL ;).

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