Topic: Put your collection online with phpdvdprofiler

[Touti]

It looks like you can do it on a Yahoo Website since they support mysql and php.  The only downside I see is that they don't say anything about shell access so you wouldn't be able to use rsync to update your images.

rsync is a tool that will compare the files and directories on both sides and only transfer the differences, it's a lot faster than having to upload all your images every time you want to update.  However it requires ssh (Secure Shell) access which most web hosting companies won't allow.

[DJ Doena]

rsync is a tool that will compare the files and directories on both sides and only transfer the differences, it's a lot faster than having to upload all your images every time you want to update.  However it requires ssh (Secure Shell) access which most web hosting companies won't allow.

IMHO FileZilla or BeyondCompare also work quite well.

[Touti]

Gonna have to try Filezilla, if it works I wouldn't have to give SSH access anymore.  That'd be nice because it's not the most secure thing to do on a web server.

[DJ Doena]

FileZilla is a normal FTP client and when you transfer the images folder you get asked what he should do with different files. Then you say "Overwrite if newer" (since the local files should be newer if they've been edited) and then it only transfers new ones.

[ajm]

the other advantage rsync has is it only uploads the differences in the file. So my xml file is almost 40mb and if I change a few profiles that only causes under 100kb to be uploaded. Much quicker than even zipping and transferring it.

[Jimmy]

the other advantage rsync has is it only uploads the differences in the file. So my xml file is almost 40mb and if I change a few profiles that only causes under 100kb to be uploaded. Much quicker than even zipping and transferring it.

That's what I was thinking too. This is not the cover image that takes the longer to upload after the first time, but the xml file that you must upload completly everytime.

And when you have a medium size collection and a 56k conection it's very long 

[ajm]

Using rsync, I just did today's profile updates (1 title), added 5 titles and changed 2 others. My xml is now 47.79mb (wow I remember when it was 2mb). It transferred it in 2 seconds. Now seeing I've just got normal broadband with a max upload speed of 48kb per sec, it obviously didn't upload much.

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collection.xml
      47.79M 100%   18.93MB/s    0:00:02 (xfer#1, to-check=2410/2411)

just under 19mb per second isn't bad on a line that does 48kb.

Including 22 images/thumbnails it only sent 1.42mb of data instead of 49.02mb.

[Touti]

Haven't had any request for this, withdrawing the offer.

[addicted2dvd]

You may have noticed my watched/purchased banners are now gone.

We been trying to get phpdvdprofiler to update with no real luck.... every since I had to reformat my C Drive. For some reason... even after making sure all settings are right... and redoing my xml file a couple different times it is not uploading new images or my watched stats.

So for the time being at least there is no sense in having old info on here.

I also feel guilty about (what feels like) taking advantage of a friends good will... as he is hosting my collection as well as probably going pretty nuts with all the problems I have with it. 

At this point I am considering waiting to see what Ken comes up with on his update to the online collection.

[Tom]

You may have noticed my watched/purchased banners are now gone.

No, I didn't notice it. I blocked all watched banners on this site 
I often have a rather slow internet connection and I do not like it when a thread page slowly gets larger when loading additional banner while reading a post and thus the post I am reading disappears from my screen (I hope you know what I mean).

[RossRoy]

I often have a rather slow internet connection and I do not like it when a thread page slowly gets larger when loading additional banner while reading a post and thus the post I am reading disappears from my screen (I hope you know what I mean).

Yeah. I have a fairly fast connection, and it still happens sometimes. But usually it's not because of the signatures, as much as the actual images in posts.

[Touti]

You may have noticed my watched/purchased banners are now gone.

We been trying to get phpdvdprofiler to update with no real luck.... every since I had to reformat my C Drive. For some reason... even after making sure all settings are right... and redoing my xml file a couple different times it is not uploading new images or my watched stats.

So for the time being at least there is no sense in having old info on here.

I also feel guilty about (what feels like) taking advantage of a friends good will... as he is hosting my collection as well as probably going pretty nuts with all the problems I have with it. 

At this point I am considering waiting to see what Ken comes up with on his update to the online collection.

Pete, I can host it right here on dvdcollectorsonline if you want to give it a try.  It would be as a subdomain (addicted2dvd.dvdcollectorsonline.com).  The server can easily take it, I'm far from using all the resources and you would be able to use cwrsync to update it as needed.

[addicted2dvd]

Thanks Eric...
but the place for it is not really the problem... the fact that we can't seem to get it to work correctly even though all the settings seems to be correct is the real problem. I am thinking though... that maybe I want to go with what is the easiest of all and stick with the one at Invelos... I am hoping they will update it here soon after the beta release.