Want me to send you the XML ?

and that sounds right for the images, they were all DiskID's

-Robert

Ah. Yes, apparently I'm stripping the numeric digits out of Disc IDs when the UPC is a Disc ID instead of a true UPC. Thanks for the experimentation.

I could probably fix that easily enough. Hopefully I can get some time tonight.

Update:
The ZIP now contains v2.0.4 which has switched from using the XML's UPC property to the ID property so that it'll understand box set discs in addition to regular titles. I also added all three image previews into the app itself so that it's easier to make sure that all of a title's images are found.

It's the same javascript function in utils.js that builds the img url whether it's for the thumbnail or the larger cover art. It seems very unlikely that it could use the same UPC/code to create the php page and find the covert arts but not find the thumbnail.

I can't see your error now because it looks like you're refreshing the web files (I do see the image files are there, though). I'm wondering if it was just a matter of a browser caching problem. We may never know, now, but if your refresh still exhibits the issue, I'd like to see it.

One way you should be able to test for the images now is to load your collection in webgendvd (2.0.4), select the first title, then hold down your Down array key so it scrolls through the entire list. It will attempt to load the front, back, and thumb art for every title it scrolls through, and if it hits one where it can't find any of the three images, it'll popup an error message. If you can scroll through the whole list without an error message, then any img missing issue on the uploaded site was either an FTP hiccup or a browser caching issue.

Edit: You're in the middle of uploading now!

Problem:

All of my images now load properly, including thumbnails, but your latest update now only generates .php pages for profiles that have Disc IDs, all other profiles with normal UPCs are ignored and generate the 404 - Not Found error when I click on the thumbnails. I checked the DVDP folder on my site and, sure enough, the only .php pages in there have Disc ID numbers. No .php pages for normal UPCs were generated.

Quoting redscull:

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@8ballMax
That's not a bug so much as improper usage. When you run the generator, it refreshes the four data files and the search file, but it only generates title-specific [upc].php files for "newly added" titles. It differentiates new vs. existing by whether or not the [upc].php file for a title already exists in the local output folder.

I'm betting that you deleted all the [upc].php files from your web site, but didn't also clear them from your local output directory. There was actually no reason to delete from either location in this case because my fix was just for box set discs that needed to use ID instead of UPC. As the generator ran through your collection, it didn't find [upc].php files for the box set discs (because now it knows to use the ID, not the shortened-upc) so it created [upc].php files for them and added them to the upload queue. But all the other already-working titles had their [upc].php files and so it skipped re-generating those and excluded them from the upload queue.

This feature is what ensures that adding new titles to your collection is always a faster generation and streamlined upload process (you don't upload your whole collection every time you upload). I should have told you that this fix for box set discs wouldn't require you to delete anything from your web site. It simply needed you to re-run the generator/upload to fix those specific discs. Sorry about that.

Since I'm assuming you still have all the [upc].php files locally, just use your FTP tool to upload them all back to your web site. Going forward, I'll be sure to explicitly state if a new version of the tool requires a forced clean and re-upload of the entire site. The idea is that this should never be the case.

Oops . You assumed correctly sir. I deleted everything from my web site but not the local output directory. I'm uploading all the .php files as we speak. I'm certain that will resolve all issues. Sorry about that.

Thank you for all your help .

Ok, I have a few ideas. 

Everything is working well so far, I am manually changing a few image files, actually this has me changing a few things within my own collection.

BTW - did find one odd ball, thing on a Local profile, I made the profile of Gen13, I cant upload it to DVDP because its a really bad pirate film and I have not been able to find the proper art for the DVD ( not released in the US and cant find it in any collection of DVD's so far )

So this profile has a ID of 11111 ( I just used that for UPC ) and a locally of Australia It didn't seem to upload the image files ( there is no back image as well ) Not sure if this was so much an issue with your program or something else. Just thought I would note it. I fixed it by forcing the image UL.

Some thoughts :

A next button on the sides ? Center the covers in the page then have a <> on the sides for next page via clicking up top.

The ability to sort by collection ?

Thanks again for your work !

-R

Quoting redscull:

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I wonder if DVD Profiler added the .2 to mean 2nd custom local title or something.

Nope, that's the Locality. See Article
The too short UPC shouldn't(!) make any problems there.

By the way: I gave your first version a quick run and it looks quit nice. I too had a problem with the ftp, and afterwards your program "refused" to upload because it was of the impression that this already happened. Maybe some kind of "reset"-function would be prudent? Or a real look at the server whether the file is there? (Although I'm not sure how complicated that might get.)

Only thing I really dislike is the saving in the program directory, under Win7 this is of course not possible and it gets re-directed to "\Users\$Username\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\Webgendev\output" ... easy to find ... 8)
Would be nice if the data were to be saved in the user-directory like DVD Profiler does.

cya, Mithi

@Mithi
You can "reset" it by clearing the [upc].php files from the output subdirectory of the exe's location. I could add an option in the program itself to do this, but I'm not sure who it'd really help. If the initial upload is too massive and fails, resetting to do it again surely wouldn't fare any better.

Perhaps another option would be a title-by-title option to somehow mark that you want a particular title to be included in the upload queue regardless of whether webgen thinks it needs to be regenerated and uploaded or not. I'd need to redo some of the UI in order to present that kind of logic to the user, though.

I could consider writing the application "properly" and save to the Application Data directory, but I use XP and thus really don't care. I also favor "sandbox" style apps where everything is in one folder. No external data directory. No registry entries. Move or delete the app all via its folder.

As for Rob's 111111 custom UPC, I'd have to see what the XML looks like for that particular title to know if it needs to be handled special within webgen. I would just assume that DVD Profiler would inernally set the title's ID according to its scheme (which I suppose is what the 111111.2 represents), and that if Rob used DVD Profiler's built-in functions for giving the title cover art, DVD Profiler should have named the cover art with the same ID it assinged it. So I'm not sure why that title wouldn't "just work."


@Rob
I updated my test site with a prev/next page prototype. Because my test collection is so small, you need to reduce the rows/cols so that only two titles are shown at a time for the prev/next links to even appear. Obviously a real solution would want to be prettier. The simplest approach to making that work would require some changes inside the generated search.php to give modders better access points to the different main areas of the page. But you could actually accomplish a similar thing by only modifying the core files (no new webgen version needed) if you used floating iframes for the prev/next page links.

I think that, for now, I probably won't rush a new version. At this point, it's just feature enhancements, not bug fixes, and I don't want to prioritize that as highly. And I'd rather get more of them in one go than one-offs.

As for sorting options, what piece of meta data in the XML is that? Is there a category or something? How would sorting that way even work? What you've listed looks more like a filter than a sort. And right now, the only filter I support is by title text match using the text input box. I personally think a more robust filtering option makes the site too busy. That's something I dislike about the super fancy phpDVDProfiler tool. It's cool, but the sites it makes are just too busy. I never need all that power. I only want a simple, pretty listing and an easy way to check if I own something or get info on a title I own.