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Want to see mlam working ? - picture manipulations

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I consider here that you know what is mlam's administration tool, how to edit your present project, how to add new structures, save the configuration files and create listing for your data. From now on, I will only present the interesting parts of the screens, and not all of them.

Time to add picture to our movie data
In mlam administration tool, edit the edit_film structure. Until now, we haven't selected the img_film field. It's time to check it on, with insertion and update on, and we want use it as or file or picture data, as mentioned in the right column. Validate the changes, we have this :
img_film
What title ?
 Insertion ?
Update ?
Data representing a file or a picture
this value can't be edited, waiting for addition in current config
As you can see, you must add the current structure in your config to edit specific data for using file or pictures. This is something you will encounter for specific data manipulations like pictures, external keys and else. So let's add the structure as asked.
We have now a link to edit a configuration for the pictures. Follow it, the next screen is this one :
Configuration for files in the following table : film
Type files :
Directory containing the files
Url for this directory
The following informations are only useful for pictures
You have the possibility to generate thumbnail at any size you want, without any limitations in number of thumbnails.
If you don't have imagemagick, you must have the gd library
Image magick convert position :
You may have as many thumbails as you want
You must specify all the data to add one value
Subdirectory 
Max width allowedPicture on screen ?
Max height allowed 

Update ?
Needing url and directory element to save this structure
We are interested here to handle pictures, so we have to select it. The directory is where the files will be saved, and the corresponding url is what you have to give to your navigator to have access to this directory. With just these values, you are able to put pictures for your movies. If you have Imagemagick, we have better possibilities. In this case, do something like this :
Configuration for files in the following table : film
Type files :
Directory containing the files
Url for this directory
The following informations are only useful for pictures
You have the possibility to generate thumbnail at any size you want, without any limitations in number of thumbnails.
If you don't have imagemagick, you must have the gd library
Image magick convert position :
You may have as many thumbails as you want
Subdirectory Delete ?
Max width allowedPicture on screen ?
Max height allowed 

You must specify all the data to add one value
Subdirectory 
Max width allowedPicture on screen ?
Max height allowed 

Update ?


Save the configuration file
Now save the configuration file, go back to the main screen, and save (again) the configuration file (a syntax problem the first time, sorry). You need to create the pics directory (in my case). You are ready to add pictures in your movies.

Pictures in action

In your previous edit_movie.php, you have nothing to change. Just go to the option for creating a new movie. A new row has appeared :
picture No picture yet

Add a picture

After selecting a file and validating the changes, it becomes something like :
picture
Initial picture   

Add a picture

Without imagemagick, you won't have the thumbnail, but directly the full picture. Mlam uses imagemagick because it is very accurate, but also because I had other picture manipulations projects, still not included in mlam...

Now that we can perfectly manage our movies, it's time to begin our dvd section, allowing you to see mlam in action with external keys.