about php4flicks
php4flicks is a small yet powerful, PHP/MySQL powered movie data base.features:
- stores detailed information (like directors, actors, poster, medium, language...) about your movies
- genre support lets you store and browse genres for your movies
- automatically downloads all the information from IMDb.com, the world's largest on-line movie database
- lets you organize your movie collection in user-defined categories
- very configurable, easy to use
- completely css-based layout; lets you easily use your own design
- powerful search and sort function
- movie list export as pdf
- a multi-user version is also available, including buddy lists, a communication panel, management of loaned movies and much more! details... (maintained by DBMDude)
php4flicks is free software, licensed under the GPL license.
news
| [09.07.07] | some people pointed out that fetching several movies in a row can cause the script to hang; patch is here. |
| [10.04.07] | thanks to Martin Nielsen, there is finally a patch for the recent imdb changes. |
| [19.10.06] | I finally got around to fixing the problem that the actor list was no longer fetched due to imdb changes. thanks to everyone who pointed this out to me! patch |
| [27.05.06] | 0.4.1b fixes problems grabbing poster due to imdb changes. thanks to Jonas for the patch! (patch) |
| [30.01.06] | patch fixes change in imdb pages (poster no longer fetched). |
| [27.11.05] | Raśl Zablas contributed a spanish language file. thx! |
| [13.08.05] | email function was out of order; SORRY for that. |
| [14.03.05] | Jarno Selänpää provides a finnish language file |
| [02.02.05] | 0.4.1a fixes search problems due to another change of imdb pages (patch) |
| [02.02.05] | Deelight provided a french language file |
| [02.01.05] | a Multi-User version is now available, thanks to DBMDude who spent a lot of time writing it |
| [02.01.05] | version 0.4.1 released, including ezpdf as an easier-to-configure alternative to htmldoc |
screenshots
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| main window | genre browser | movie detail view |
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| print and search dialogues | edit view | info screen |
demo
a demo is available here. you can log in using 'demo' as user and '314159' as password. note, however, that you cannot do any changes to the database. also, the pdf-list is not generated dynamically.
requirements
- PHP >= 4.xx
- MySQL >= 4.0 (tested with 4.0.16, might work with older versions, but might also not)
(versions prior to 0.4 work with mysql >= 3.2x) - for the pdf export, either HTMLdoc from easysw (c source available for *nix and win, free) or ezpdf (php-based, free, included in download) are required
- a javascript-enabled web-browser
downloads
current version: 0.4.1b (view changes)
php4flicks.tar.gz
php4flicks.zip
multi-user version: (details...)
php4flicks_multiuser.tar.gz
php4flicks_multiuser.zip
a multilingual version is also available. currently, english, german, bulgarian, and french language files are included. (if you need english only, download the normal version.)
php4flicks_multilang.tar.gz
php4flicks_multilang.zip
for older versions, see sourceforge project page.
installation and configuration
php4flicks is very easy to install and configure. please refer to the included readme file.>view readme
contact
email me questions, comments, wishes, complaints, bugfixes...please read the FAQ section before sending me questions.
