for AD or Phade mostly, unless anyone else has a suggestion

[Pwolf]

Ok, this is gona sound odd... But please stay with me. This is mostly for AD and Phade.

On my site i have a peice of php that searches for my videos on a server. I have the name of the file in a database and if the code finds the video, it says "Available for Local Download".

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if (@fclose(@fopen("$link$myrow[9]", "r")))
{
printf("<td class='avail' colspan='' valign='bottom'>Available for Local Download</td></tr>");
}else{
printf("<td class='avail' colspan='' valign='bottom'> &nbsp;</td></tr>");
}

Recently i've wanted to add a link to the org pages for my videos also because i can't host all of them and it would be cool if i could just point people to the video pages on the org. So becuase i'm lazy and don't want to add a link or identifying number to each of my videos into the databse, is there a way i can have some code do the work for me and tell me if there is a local link for the video on the org?

Probably not possible (i think o.o), but it doesn't hurt to ask


Pwolf

[Corran]

Pfft, if you were truely lazy you wouldn't care to have links to the video profiles. You'd just write:

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if (@fclose(@fopen("$link$myrow[9]", "r"))) 
{ 
printf("<td class='avail' colspan='' valign='bottom'>Available for Local Download</td></tr>"); 
}else{ 
printf("<td class='avail' colspan='' valign='bottom'>Available at <a href="http://www.animemusicvideos.org">AnimeMusicVideos.org</a></td></tr>"); 
}

[Pwolf]

Pfft, if you were truely lazy you wouldn't care to have links to the video profiles. You'd just write:

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if (@fclose(@fopen("$link$myrow[9]", "r"))) 
{ 
printf("<td class='avail' colspan='' valign='bottom'>Available for Local Download</td></tr>"); 
}else{ 
printf("<td class='avail' colspan='' valign='bottom'>Available at <a href="http://www.animemusicvideos.org">AnimeMusicVideos.org</a></td></tr>"); 
}

aye, but not all my videos are hosted here on the org. I plan on uploading them all but i wont upload my projects ones (at least not until i feel that it's not wasting the org's space)


Pwolf

[Eek-1]

you can write a program that can parse HTML from the Org's Video Info webpage. But it can really slow things down, plus it needs video id or url for reference.

[Pwolf]

you can write a program that can parse HTML from the Org's Video Info webpage. But it can really slow things down, plus it needs video id or url for reference.

yea, don't need it to be any slower then it already is (not really that slow, but i'd rather not slow it down at all). I guess i could just add the databse fields myself or just add the video's id number and go from there. i hate being lazy


Pwolf

[trythil]

You know, that is a neat idea.

Phade: What are the chances of us being able to write RSS aggregators for .org information?

You could make it a perk for donating members -- I'd pay for that

[rose4emily]

I know this might sound like a crazy idea, but:

You could copy the hard link to the video profiles to your page/script for each video hosted on the .org. Considering the fact that it takes at least a few hours to make a new video, it doesn't seem unreasonable to spend a minute and half opening a file or two and pasting in a line of text. The links don't seem to move, so it wouldn't need to be a dynamic thing.

Sometimes the best solution is, oddly enough, forgoing programming for a little manual labor (and I'm a Software Engineering major saying this). Not often, but sometimes.

[Pwolf]

I know this might sound like a crazy idea, but:

You could copy the hard link to the video profiles to your page/script for each video hosted on the .org. Considering the fact that it takes at least a few hours to make a new video, it doesn't seem unreasonable to spend a minute and half opening a file or two and pasting in a line of text. The links don't seem to move, so it wouldn't need to be a dynamic thing.

Sometimes the best solution is, oddly enough, forgoing programming for a little manual labor (and I'm a Software Engineering major saying this). Not often, but sometimes.

yea... i just like to chalenge my self a little and try new things i'm also lazy but like to go the extra mile and spend hours coding something that will probably take the same time to just use a hardlink -_- hardlink seems like it will be the best bet. For my video server, it works well becuase i can't host all my videos so instead of chaning the links everytime i swtich out a video, the code does it for me in a sense i'm just gona use hard links.


Pwolf

[Kalium]

You're lazy. You're a programmer. It's comes with the territory. Remember: Perl was invented by laziness overkill.

[Pwolf]

You're lazy. You're a programmer. It's comes with the territory. Remember: Perl was invented by laziness overkill.

good point


Pwolf