MeDBia/videodb/doc/CHANGES

# Version History

## videoDB Rel. 4.0

### 13.03.13
- Created nexgen template based on Foundation CSS library
- Added Foundation4 library
- Upgraded to Smarty 3.1.10
- Released videoDB 4.0pre

### 04.03.12
- Upgraded to Smarty 3.1.8
- Various PHP 5.4 compatibility fixes (Andreas Götz)

## videoDB Rel. 3.0

### 13.02.11 (3.1)
- Loads of engine fixes, especially but not limited to IMDB
- All bundled libraries upgraded

### 01.04.10
- Various PHP 5.3 compatibility fixes (Andreas Götz)
- Enhanced PDF output (Muddle)
- Upgraded to Smarty 3 (Andreas Götz)

### 19.01.10
- Added support for mod_fastcgi Basic authentication (Muddle)

### 25.03.09
- Replaced outdated amazon engine with new Amazon Web Service (Andreas Götz)
- Replaced partically broken google images engine with new google REST api (Andreas Götz)

### 05.03.09  
- Released v3.0.3

### 25.02.09
- Fixed dvdb engine (Chinamann)
- Fixed ofdb engine (Chinamann)
- Fixed test classes for dvdb and dvdpalace engines (Chinamann)
- Added test class for ofdb engine (Chinamann)
- Fixed allocine engine and test (Martin Vauchel & Andreas Götz)
- Fixed various character encoding issues (Andreas Götz)
- Rewrote basic authentication code- should now provide seamless integration (Andreas Götz)

### 21.08.08
- Fixed dvdb engine (Chinamann)
- Fixed add_dvdb_barcode contrib (Chinamann)
- Fixed OFDB engine (Chinamann)

### 20.01.08 (3.0a1)
- Upgraded database schema to utf8- you can now have videos of various languages in one db
- Revamped elegant template to support AJAX
- Out-of-the-box thumbnail generation for better image quality and performance
- Out-of-the-box support for PDF export
- Various performance fixes
- Added cantonese (Hong Kong) flag

### 03.12.07 (pre v3.0)
- Added bundled fpdf and phpthumb libraries (Andreas Götz)

## videoDB Rel. 2.0

### 01.12.07
- Fixed IMDB engine (Andreas Götz)
- Upgraded xajax library to 0.5 (Andreas Götz)
- Improved setup screen by calculating cache size in background (Andreas Götz)
- Fixed various test cases (Andreas Götz)

### 08.09.07
- Fixed PHP short tags (Andreas Götz)
- Moved Smarty to /libs folder (Andreas Götz)

### 18.08.07
- Fixed tv.com engine (Victor)
- Fixed allocine.fr engine (tedemo)

### 10.08.07
- Added support for youTube trailers (youtube developer key required)
- More engine test cases (Sebastien)

### 15.07.07
- Released videoDB 2.3.0
- Upgraded Smarty to 2.6.18 (Andreas Götz)
- Zillions of engine fixes
- Added automated test cases for engines (Andreas Götz)

### 06.02.07
- Completely rewritten OFDB engine (beta state) (Chinamann)

### 05.02.07
- Fixed less privileged users can't use random, search, borrow and new/edit views even if the should (Chinamann)

### 17.01.07
- Fixed security hole in show.php which enabled users to see movies they don't have access to (Chinamann)
- Bugfix in stats.php: Don't count movies which are on the wishlist (Chinamann)

### 16.01.07
- Fixed dvdb engine and improved fetching performance (Chinamann)
- Fixed dvdpalace engine (Chinamann)
- Fixed JavaScript error in elegant.css (Chinamann)
- Added session status restore in httpClient (Chinamann)

### 11.11.06
- Added template screenshots for selected templates (Andreas Götz)
- Fixed an installer issue when upgrading (Andreas Götz)
- Fixed [ 1596452 ] displaying movie takes a long time (Andreas Götz)

### 10.10.06
- Upgraded Smarty to 2.6.14 (Andreas Götz)

### 04.10.06
- Updated dvdfr engine (Seb)
- Updated release scripts for new SF CVS settings (Andreas Götz)

### 03.10.06
- Fixed IMDB cast issue (Andreas Götz)
- Fixed include security issue Secunia advisory SA22184 (Andreas Götz)

### 05.07.06
- Updated google image search engine according to google website updates (Andreas Götz)

### 28.03.06
- added Aka search for IMDB (Andreas Götz)
- split xml.tpl from header scripts for advanced and jeckyl template (Andreas Götz)

### 25.01.06
- upgraded Smarty to 2.6.12 (Andreas Götz)

### 27.12.05
- upgraded Smarty to 2.6.11 (Andreas Götz)

### 27.09.05
- added dvdb user login support to acess FSK18 movies (Chinamann)

### 23.09.05
- added favicons by Paul Leclair (Andreas Götz)
- added previous/next navigation to show template (Andreas Götz)
- added new auto DiskId calculation. Now: "next free" before: "highest+1" (Chinamann)
- fixed external search (Chinamann)
- added convert_engines contrib to switch between dvdpalace and dvdb engine (Chinamann)
- added user and engine filter to refetchAllInfos contrib (Chinamann)
- added imdbID prefix history functions to dvdb and dvdpalace engine (Chinamann)
- fixed dvdb engine to avoid bad results if httpClient sends "Request Timeout" (Chinamann)

### 21.09.05
- added DVDB.de engine (Chinamann)
- changed barcode based adding contrib to use DVDB.de engine (Chinamann)
- changed LableWriter Export to use DVDB.de engine (Chinamann)
- added UTF8 support to httpClient (Chinamann)
- added imdb-id-prefix also to imdb and changed it in dvdpalace engine (Chinamann)

### 01.09.05
- PDF title formatting fix (Justin Pasher)
- Excel export (Chinamann)
- added Amazon.com engine (Andreas Götz)
- added more IMDB genres (Andreas Götz)
- added HTTP caching support (Andreas Götz)
- upgraded Smarty to latest 2.6.10 (Andreas Götz)

### 31.07.05
- Image max width/height values (pdf config file) (Justin Pasher)
- Image width/height values (in the generated PDF) (pdf config file) (Justin Pasher)
- Overall font size (pdf config file) (Justin Pasher)
- Display mediatype next to diskid in the title for the movies (Justin Pasher)
- Search form now display "Video Codec" in the "Search Fields" box (Justin Pasher)

### 15.06.05
- fixed db prefix problems in create- and upgradescripts (Chinamann)
- fixed "database not empty" problem even if different prefix is selected (Chinamann)
- fixed bug [ 1199833 ] Database prefix not added when MySQL database is not empty (Chinamann)

### 24.05.05
- added user to user permissions (Chinamann)
- updated dvdpalace engine (Chinamann)
- fixed bug [ 1122052 ] Automatic DiskID generation problem (Chinamann)

### 01.04.05
- upgraded Smarty to latest 2.6.8 (Andreas Götz)

### 23.02.05
- added engine config options (Andreas Götz)
- added prelimenary improved episodes support (Andreas Götz)
- added add_tv_episodes

### 10.02.05
- added support for common table prefix for hosting environments (Andreas Götz)
- added content drilldown to DvdInside engine (Andreas Götz)
- added support for regrouping of articles (Andreas Götz)
- added default values for list- and castcolumns to createtables.sql (Andreas Götz)
- upgraded Smarty to latest 2.6.7 (Andreas Götz)
- moved some language flags to images/flags/additional (Andreas Götz)

### 25.01.05
- added HTTP basic auth support for use by RSS feed readers (Andreas Götz)
- disabled IMDB browser access for anonymous users for security reasons
- added new language flags (Constantinos Neophytou)

### 21.01.05
- added langcheck tooltips update (Constantinos Neophytou)
- added greek language files (Constantinos Neophytou)
- applied multi-language patch (Constantinos Neophytou)

### 17.01.05
- added https patch (Andreas Götz, thanks to Robert Hendricks)
- added removal of html tags in title and subtitle (Andreas Götz)

### 05.01.05
- security fix for javascript attacks (Andreas Götz, thanks to Holger van Lengerich)

### 28.12.04
- fixed phpthumb code sometimes generating duplicate thumbnails
- fixed custom fields not being copied from IMDB

### 24.12.04
- added cache-less mode to avoid caching of IMDB queries (Andreas Götz)
- various template fixes (bug 1084553, etc)
- added swedish translations (Nisse Hellberg)
- several security fixes (Andreas Götz, Steve Kemp)

### 15.11.04
- even more PDF export fixes (Andreas Götz)

### 05.11.04
- PDF export fixes
- removed 'Adult' genres for users without permissions (Andreas Götz)
- added default adult genre to the setup SQL (Andreas Götz)

### 27.10.04
- added PDF export (Andreas Götz)
- added advanced template (Elkin)

### 15.10.04
- added thumbnail scaling using phpThumb for saving bandwidth (Andreas Götz)

### 20.09.04
- moved javascripts to separate files for re-use (Andreas Götz)
- moved xml headers to separate template file for re-use (Andreas Götz)
- added xml import/export (Andreas Götz)
- separated search field names in templates from physical columns names (Andreas Götz)
- upgraded smarty to 2.6.5 (Andreas Götz)
- added custom smarty function html_checkbox to get rid of the {if $video.seen}{else}{/if} (Andreas Götz)
- added tool to decode html entities into ANSI characters (contrib/decode_entities.php)
- fixed user dropdown (Mike Clark)

### 10.09.04
- added hierarchical language files (Idea by Elkin)
- added tool for finding recommendations (contrib/add_recommended_movies.php)
- added owner dropdown for multiuser mode (PimpGoblin)

### 24.08.2004
- added support for google image lookup (edit.tpl)
- allowed to store engine as id prefix (experimental: imdb:081547)
- upgraded search functionality to search any external site
- added tool to remove orphans from image cache (contrib/clean_unused_images.php)
- updated delete functionality to remove cover of deleted movie

### 16.08.2004
- updated to allow drilldown on individual countries (if separated by ,)
- major overhaul of installer (Andreas Götz)

### 15.08.2004
- major overhaul of internal database structure
- improved developer documentation

### 01.08.2004
- Added indian language flag
- small updates to the manual

### 03.07.2004
- Not working search IMDB button fixed in default template

### 29.06.2004
- Bugfix for PHP installation with missing '.' in include_path

### 28.06.2004
- Bugfix for SQL error on user insert (Kris Senden)

### 27.06.2004
- install.php (Andreas Götz)
- upgrade accross multiple versions at once
- jumps directly into upgrade step

### 21.06.2004
- french update by Cyril Duveau
- bugfix for german language file

### 19.06.2004
- fixed support for admin to change owner
- added per user seen value (statistics not updated yet)
- bugfix for default lookup.tpl (no engine support yet)

### 11.06.2004
- added amazon webservice (experimental) (Andreas Götz)
- added compact.css (Andreas Götz)
- modified imdboverwrite to be more flexible (Andreas Götz)

### 09.06.2004
- small bugfix for contrib/tvtome.php
- added access keys to default template

### 05.06.2004
- Andreas Götz:
- upgraded smarty 2.5 to 2.6.3 to ensure php5 compatibility
- modified html_image to allow max_width and max_height parameters for
modern template
- Andreas Gohr:
- fixed permission problems when logging out and in within the same
browser session
- added profile support to modern template
- fetching gueststars in contrib/tvtome.php

### 03.06.2004
- added <title> support for speaking html page titles (Andreas Götz)

### 01.06.2004
- added installer support to write configuration back to
config.inc.php (Andreas Götz)

### 28.05.2004
- Various changes by Andreas Götz
- added httpClient support for gzip-encoding
- added httpClient support to remember redirects
- reformatted error messages and added links to install.php
- added preliminary multi-engine support
- added improved video copy support
- added referer patch by Mike Clark

### 16.05.2004
- added user profiles

### 13.05.2004
- bugfix for names containing quotes
- bugfix for modern template CSS by Justin Pasher

### 10.05.2004
- swedish language file by Nisse added
- spanish update by Elkin Fricke
- bugfix for tvtome.php by Elkin Fricke

### 09.05.2004
- Multiuser Bug on deletion fixed by Stephan Hesmer
- added a index.html (thx to Merle Reine)
- added dvdadd.pl to contrib (based upon sample script by Elkin
Fricke)
- Request to Borrow Feature added some time in between ;-)
- multiple minor changes and fixes by Andreas Götz and some
others including some fixes on the IMDB integration

### 04.02.2004
- language updates

### 29.12.2003
- videoadd.pl supports the owner field
- default template now uses the full screen width

### 21.12.2003
- minor code cleanup
- manual additions
- use of security mechanisms for tvtome.php
- all images are tried in the template directory first
- VideoDB now checks for a loaded mysql PHP extension
- videoadd.pl now sets the created timestamp
- the # filter now matches foreign characters and special
chars, too (thx to Justin Lim)
- Now all fields from the videodata table are selected for list
views (index and search) - more freedom for template designers

### 19.12.2003
- bugfix for russian language file by Eugene Surov
- Optional adult check for certain genres

### 29.11.2003
- bugfix for IMDB Problem (thx to Andreas Götz and others)
- more effective session init (Andreas Götz)

### 05.11.2003
- no edit links on missing permissions in modern template
- admin can change owner (thx to Mike Clark)

### 02.11.2003
- small doc updates

### 26.10.2003
- New custom type for MPAA ratings by Tim M. Sanders
- bulgarian language update by drJekyll
- polish update by Maciej Witkowiak

### 25.10.2003
- french language update by Cyril Duveau
- minor tweaks for modern template

### 23.10.2003
- dutch language update by Kees de Bruin
- german language updated

### 21.10.2003
- small update for french language by Daniel Caujolle-Bert

### 19.10.2003
- added new cutom type 'movix' by Antonio Giungato
- added new default style 'metal'    

### 15.10.2003
- new Multiplayer code based on many code contributions by Mike
Clark and some by "weber"

### 03.10.2003
- added new stylesheet for the default template by Joakim Sandén

### 21.09.2003
- spanish update by Elkin Fricke
- DB versioning

### 17.09.2003
- Added missing <?xml ?> header

### 16.09.2003
- Dutch update by Kees de Bruin

### 15.09.2003
- Manual and Helpbrowser added
- random view does no longer show wishlist items
- French update by Cyril Duveau
- Bulgarian Update by drJekyll
- movies are only marked as new when added not when changed anymore

### 14.09.2003
- Portuguese update by Tiago Fonseca, Brasilian Portuguese
by Marcus Leandro

### 08.09.2003
- Italian update by Antonio Giungato

### 07.09.2003
- language checker added to the contrib directory

### 04.09.2003
- all IMDB functions now use the new link formats
- imdbData now returns a hash

### 30.08.2003
- bugfix for new imdb link format by Charles Morgan

### 29.08.2003
- french update by Cyril Duveau
- patch to enable upload from an URL in Konquerer by Stephan Zalewski
- Userdefinable config table (by Stephan Zalewski)
- Brazillian portuguese Language by Marcus Leandro added

### 27.08.2003
- custom type for original title by Stephan Zalewski
- better cachedirectory checks

### 26.08.2003
- POST support for HTTP client by Andreas Götz
- IMDB-Browser by Andreas Götz

### 25.08.2003
- bulgarian language update by drJekyll

### 23.08.2003
- spanish update by Elkin Fricke
- bugfix for HTTP caching on windows
- lots of comments added its now possible to generate a API doc with phpDocumentor

### 21.08.2003
- small wishlist bugfix by Andreas Götz
- Number of shown movies in new filter is cutomizable now (Patch by Stephan Zalewski)
- improvements to the year statistic

### 18.08.2003
- minor template tweaks (default)
- updated spanish translation by Elkin Fricke
- idea for year statistic implemented not finished yet

### 17.08.2003
- setup.php uses REPLACE now
- merged multi template with default
- new template by Andreas Götz: modern
- Fixed bug with interfering environment variables (Thanks to
Raymond Scholz pointing that out)
- nocover image is now a transparent gif - Templates can use
their own.
- Added a new rating custom type which uses the IMDB rating as
a default
- Search now works with ' in queries (Fixes Ed O'Neill)
- Fixed error when selecting random on an empty database
- New Mediatype 'wanted' for building a wishlist of movies (Idea by
Andreas Götz)
- Cover-Upload by Stephan Zalewski
- some template tuning

### 11.08.2003
- bugfix by Harald Leithner for mediadefault in setup.php
- bulgarian update by drJekyll
- minor template fixes

### 10.08.2003
- Enhancement of the imdbActor function
- Updated french language by Cyril Duveau
- local files in the cover field now work again
- setup.tpl is now independent from the available setup options
- changed the random function again please send me a mail if it
isn't random enough

### 09.08.2003
- New template (multi) and some minor codechanges (Andreas Götz)
- Fix for missing director and country fields in show.php
- Not found actorthumbnails are retried after specified age

### 07.08.2003
- Patches by Andreas Götz:
- fix for chunked encoding which makes http/1.1 possible
- enhanced imdbActor function
- bugfix for IMDB caching function
- Bulgarian language update by drJekyll

### 05.08.2003
- Spanish language updates by Elkin Fricke

### 03.08.2003
- IMDB cache reimplemented
- small fix for imdbActors by Andreas Götz
- Translation update for russian language by Konstantin Boudnik

### 31.07.2003
- Dutch translation updated by Kees de Bruin

### 30.07.2003
- update for the portuguese languagefile by Nuno Nunes
- Some updates to the new proxy enabled download function
- Experimental support for actor fotos by Andreas Götz

### 29.07.2003
- Bulgarian languagefile by drJekyll added
- spanish language update by ctRl
- Proxy support by Andreas Götz

### 28.07.2003
- Bugfix for the ID assigning problem which made adding new videos impossible (sorry folks)
- image cacheing is now handled seperately by img.php

### 26.07.2003
- Small fix by Andreas Götz for autoDiskID calculation

### 20-25.07.2003
- Everything is better now! :-) I like to call it Version 2
- Templates with Smarty
- Webbased, database stored config
- SQL function now returns associative arrays
- much code cleanup
- display bug in Linux Opera fixed
- a TODO file was added
- Style by drJeckyll added

### 20.07.2003
- Patch by Andreas Götz to fix the genre links in show.php
- The TV-Episode switch is now stored in the session (Patch by Thomas Zajik)

### 17.07.2003
- Now checkboxlabels are clickable (patch by Kjetil Thuen)

### 16.07.2003
- Fixed the random function to produce more random values

### 15.07.2003
- Unavailable movies are now shown in red on the browsing view (Thanks to Alexandre Thomas for the idea)
- The french translation was corrected by Alexandre Thomas

### 14.07.2003
- Added russian language file by Konstantin Boudnik
- bugfix for orderallbydiskid

### 05.07.2003
- Incorporated lots of changes by Nicola Asuni (www.tecnick.com
info@tecnick.com)
- The output is in XHTML 1.0 Transitional
- some PHP bugs has been removed
- code cleanup
- directory hierachy was redesigned
- Added portuguese languagefile by Nuno Nunes
- The style can be changed from the config file

### 21.06.2003
- changed error_reporting to show fatal errors and parse errors this
should make debugging of custom function easier

### 20.06.2003
- added polish language file by Maciej Witkowiak
- charsetencoding is now set with the languagefile
- czech and polish flags added

### 19.06.2003
- You can now define your own input/output functions for the custom fields. see custom.php
- videoadd.pl now uses mplayer for getting video informations, it can create md4 sums for edonkey links, too (thx to Frank Schubert for the idea)
- The recursion bug in videoadd now really is fixed

### 12.06.2003
- added missing top.gif

### 09.06.2003
- some more language flags and a new config option for language quick select buttons were added
- cosmetic changes
- infinite recursion fixed in videoadd.pl

### 01.06.2003
- Cast is displayed in multiple columns now (Idea by Andreas Götz)
- videoadd.pl now scans recursivly for files - this should work with (S)VCDs can anyone confirm that?

### 30.05.2003
- fixed a small bug in the IMDB cast parser

### 28.05.2003
- Updated the README a little bit

### 25.05.2003
- back to top link on every page
- Patches by Andreas Götz
- addslashes for delete JavaScript (fixes problems with "Charlie's Angels")
- The filtersetting is now saved in a session

### 24.05.2003
- added french language file by Cyril Duveau
- disabled error_reporting in nondebugmode

### 09.05.2003
- Patches by Andreas Götz
- bug fix for the new Cast IMDB parser (bad HREFs removed)
- you can set a default language for new movies
- thumbnails when browsing - sweet :-)

### 22.04.2003
- added patches by Raymond Scholz:
- little bug on custom fields fixed
- IMDB parser now gets the runtime right on movies >999 min
- The cast is now fetched from the extended credits page

### 17.04.2003
- videoadd.pl now always sets the mediatype to CD-R and a bug in the titelguesser was fixed

### 23.03.2003
- more statistics

### 18.03.2003
- Dutch translation by Kees de Bruin added
- IMDB parser now splits Title from Subtitle at " - " instead of "-" (patch by Kees de Bruin)

### 17.03.2003
- added some JavaScript to enable the IMDB lookup by default when the IMBD-ID is changed
- added an option to let IMDB lookups replace existing data

### 16.03.2003
- various patches by "unknown":
- saving new items without a genre with no errors from functions.php line 87
- stop imdb lookup when searching on empty title/subtitle (window still shows but it is faster as it does nothing)
- stop imdb lookup when selected checkbox "lookup missing data from imdb" and there is no imdb item value before clicking save
- option to show listing entries sorted by diskid
- allow editing seen option from inside edit screen
- show total hours seen (watched) in statistics
- added "Adult" genre
- IMDB caching now works on redirects, too

### 15.03.2003
- added spanish translation contributed by "Orko"

### 06.03.2003
- linked the categories from the statistics page to the search

### 02.03.2003
- applied some Patches by Cameron W. Johnston to add support for
various writable DVD formats

### 04.02.2003
- fixed a problem with duplicate keys on genre inserts

### 02.02.2003
- The default filter can be set in the config (thx to Dale Blount)
- removed the useless 'Edit' and 'View' link on the respective pages (thx to Stephen Tomkinson)
- only nonempty fields are shown in the movie view (thx to Stephen Tomkinson)
- Category names are linked to the search (thx to Stephen again)
- empty years default to 0000 instead 2002 now
- Version tag added

### 30.01.2003
- Useragent of IMDB grabber is now IE and IMDB queries are now cached locally (thx to Marc Schoenefeld and Andreas Götz)

### 25.01.2003
- new Perl script direxport.pl added
- splitbrain link at the bottom now links directly to the videodb page

### 24.01.2003
- fixed another small bugs in the IMDBgrabber and added a new search.gif (again: all the fame goes to Antonio :-))

### 23.01.2003
- made search DISTINCT (thx to Antonio Giungato)
- IMDBfetcher now grabs 'Runtime: USA: 110 min' correctly (thx to Antonio again)
- added mediatype dropdown (thx to Rob Vonk)
- added custom fields
- limit edit to localnet only (thx to Jens Oberender)

### 20.01.2003
- "column 'comment' specified twice" error removed (ARGG! STUPID ME!)
- languages with no flag available don't result in a broken image anymore

### 19.01.2003
- started a changefile ;-)
- you may add a comment to each movie (currently 255 chars - mail me if that is a problem)
- "lent tofred" solved 
- diskid '0' is possible now
- actors and director is linked to the search (works pretty well)
- changed the link color
- borrow manager links to the first movie on disk
- magic quote problems hopfully solved forever

### 16.01.2003
- better borrowmanager, various smaller bugfixes and improvements

### 12.01.2003
- It now works with register_globals=off.
- Title and subtilefetching added.
- Problems with gpc_magicquotes solved.

### 11.01.2003
- Much better IMDB Search :-)

### 06.01.2003 17:00
- Fixed a typo in the english language file
- Grabbing the plot and image URL from IMDB now works again.

### 06.01.2003
- Thanks to Marcel Spitau <marcel at spitau dot de> VideoDB now supports multiple languages. Currently english and german is available. But adding your own language is easy. If you do so please send in your language file!