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Welcome to the phpVideoPro wiki!
phpVideoPro is a PHP based software to manage your private collection of videos on DVD, CD and tapes. It uses a MySQL or PostgreSQL database as backend to store its data. phpVideoPro is Open Source and protected by the GPL.
This article shall help you to get started with phpVideoPro - and informs you about important Dos and Donts.
Obviously you already absolved the very first steps: You found phpVideoPro and got yourself at least rawly informed about what it is and what it can do. Probably you also already saw the application in action. And you came to the conclusion it's worth to give it a try, which brought you here.
So before you continue with the next obvious step and download phpVideoPro, make sure to read about the requirements. It makes absolutely no sense to go on with the installation if you cannot meet them. If you do, go on and download phpVideoPro. Read the installation instructions carefully and follow them step by step. Reaching the end of that article, you've got phpVideoPro up and running - and can start using it.
Now you probably want to use the application - why else to install it ;). So be confirmed that almost all pages offer context help. With the Applikat template set (which is used by default) you simply have to click on the question mark control of the pages title bar to get there. Or you use the help menu.
If you are new to phpVideoPro (which probably is why you are reading this), it is also not a bad idea to consult the UserManual to get a raw idea about the basic capabilities and handling. While this deals with the "daily work" (i.e. handling your movies data), there is also the AdminManual explaining the "technical stuff" like maintaining categories, users, disk types, etc.pp. - and the CustomizingManual to show you how easy it is to adapt phpVideoPro to your personal favours.
- phpVideoPro is multi-user capable. This means, you can create multiple users in the application, where each user maintains his/her own movie collection. (S)he may decide to grant other user(s) access on those (even read only) or not - this decision is completely up to the user. There are two special "users" which are required by the application: PUBLIC and admin. These will always be needed by phpVideoPro, so make sure to keep them.
- Though it is possible to modify the data from outside the application (e.g. with your own SQL statements processed by the database), you should only do so if you exactly know what you are doing. If you miss some functionality, there may be a good reason why it is not there.