Generate ALL Smart Collections to HTML Simultaneously

drjohncmac · Post by **drjohncmac** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 11:01 pm

I've modified and created various templates for my movie collection. I currently export a cover page of images, and a detailed page for each image by genre, or some multiple of criteria (e.g., new movies = movies not watched whose release date is within two years, etc.)

Is there any way to generate all of these WEB pages into my Sites folder automatically? Not a big deal, but it takes 1/2 hour to 45 minutes to generate all the sub-folders for each genre/selection.

Thanks for any help.

Dr. John

Post by **Conor** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 3:24 am

There is no way to generate the export for several different collections at once. Depending on how you are structuring your site, some of the work could be automated; send me a link to your site and I can take a look.

If you are into programming a MySQL PHP version might be a solution for you; do the layout once and then just updating the database from DVDpedia. There is a Bookpedia version at http://people.iarc.uaf.edu/~cswingle/books/software.php

drjohncmac · Post by **drjohncmac** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 10:10 am

Thanks for the link!

I'm familiar with php and very familiar with MySQL. Python doesn't look too awfully difficult.

I have php and MySQL running on the imac, & will give a try using the export text file -> mySQL -> web site dataflow.

I'll let you know how it goes. This mechanism REALLY opens up what can be done with DVDPedia data.

Thanks again.

John