I have held off asking this question again and was hoping that one of you T-xore/iBizy Guru's may have an answer as to why it is so difficult or at this point seems impossible to get torrents placed in more than 1 sub-catagory per the instructions by Ibitzy0.2 mod for txore 0.3. by Deych, it allows for a catch all of one sub-catagory per every main catagory more precisely the 7 Main catagories. I have been trying different things to try to get it to use all the sub-catagories but I am no PHP coder by any means however in looking at the way things are layed out this just doesn't seem like it should for those that are php coders hard to figure out in regards to the sub-catagories, I mean if 1 sub-cat can be used why can't they be built on? I have tried it using the same convection as is in the instructions by Deych but just can't get it to work with more than the 1 sub-cat.

There has to be some way to do it.

Is there something in the hash/torrent files that would cause this not to work. I mean it's kinda illogical that you can create a sub-cat as a catch all for all movies but not be able to build more off of the same logic!

Can someone please explain why this is such a problem?

Thanks,

Hustler

this is the same problem that i face, i just cant get it to insert them correctly into the right subcategory.
at one point, i was able to sort of make it insert into subcategories, but it was always 1 sub: movies/drama (subcat id #2).

ive tryed to do some oblong stuff such as entire category edits in SQL - making a smaller amount of categories, but it still doesnt seem to do it. i highly doubt that its ibitzys way of grabbing the torrent, but its still an open question

my conspiracies would be this:

t-xore and ibitzy may need persistant mysql connections?
t-xore has a hard time with crawlers
OR...
maybe theres just too many subcategories?

any opinions?

This post has been edited by phrostwave: May 12 2007, 07:55 AM

This is what I had tried to impliment as it uses the same concection that allows for the 1 Crawled Sub-catagory and thought this might help. I only did the movies one, however as of yet I have had no luck with it.

//============================================================================================
// Usage id => 'category id', 'category name(no functional use)' ),
//============================================================================================

$CONF['cats'] = array(
1 => array('6','Anime'),
2 => array('7','Books'),
3 => array('4','Games'),
4 => array('1','Movies'),
5 => array('3','Music'),
6 => array('5','Software / Apps'),
7 => array('2','TV'),
8 => array('7','Other'),

);

if ($CONF['cats'] == 1)
{
$subcat = 1;
} elseif ($CONF['cats'] == 1)
{
$subcat = 2;
} elseif ($CONF['cats'] == 1)
{
$subcat = 3;
} elseif ($CONF['cats'] == 1)
{
$subcat = 25;
} elseif ($CONF['cats'] == 1)
{
$subcat = 26;
} elseif ($CONF['cats'] == 1)
{
$subcat = 27;
} elseif ($CONF['cats'] == 1)
{
$subcat = 28;
} elseif ($CONF['cats'] == 1)
{
$subcat = 29;
} elseif ($CONF['cats'] == 1)
{
$subcat = 30;
} elseif ($CONF['cats'] == 1)
{
$subcat = 31;
} elseif ($CONF['cats'] == 1)
{
$subcat = 32;
} elseif ($CONF['cats'] == 1)
{
$subcat = 33;
} elseif ($CONF['cats'] == 1)
{
$subcat = 34;
} elseif ($CONF['cats'] == 1)
{
$subcat = 35;
} elseif ($CONF['cats'] == 1)
{
$subcat = 36;
} elseif ($CONF['cats'] == 1)
{
$subcat = 37;
} elseif ($CONF['cats'] == 1)
{
$subcat = 76;
} elseif ($CONF['cats'] == 1)
{
$subcat = 77;
} elseif ($CONF['cats'] == 1)
{
$subcat = 78;
} elseif ($CONF['cats'] == 1)
{
$subcat = 79;
} elseif ($CONF['cats'] == 2)
{
$subcat = 80;
} elseif ($CONF['cats'] == 3)
{
$subcat = 57;
} elseif ($CONF['cats'] == 4)
{
$subcat = 15;
} elseif ($CONF['cats'] == 5)
{
$subcat = 72;
} elseif ($CONF['cats'] == 6)
{
$subcat = 75;
} elseif ($CONF['cats'] == 7)
{
$subcat = 123;
} else
{
$subcat = 123;
}


$CONF['subcat'] = array(
1 => array('75','Anime'),
2 => array('123','Books'),
3 => array('15','Games'),
4 => array('57','Music'),
5 => array('72','Software / Apps'),
6=> array('80','TV'),
7 => array('123','Other'),
8 => array('1','Action'),
9=> array('2','Drama'),
10 => array('3','DVD/Film extras'),
11 => array('25','Adventure'),
12 => array('26','Animation'),
13 => array('27','Asian'),
14 => array('28','Comedy'),
15 => array('29','Concerts'),
16 => array('30','Docmentary'),
17 => array('31','Family'),
18 => array('32','Fantasy'),
19 => array('33','Horror'),
20 => array('34','Misc'),
21 => array('35','Romance'),
22 => array('36','Thriller'),
23 => array('37','Sci-Fi'),
24 => array('76','Kids'),
25 => array('77','Mystery'),
26 => array('78','Sample/Trailers'),
27 => array('79','Sports Related'),
);
?>

reason we didn't add it to ibitzy on release is that we worked out how many catagories and its close to over a hundred.

I just have 7 or 8 main categories (audio, video, games etc) and have code that gets the subcats (in most cases not all cuz it's annoying sometimes) and just write better search query code so people can put subcats in the string they search for when they want to search for something. So if the crawler picks up an Action movie it'll place it in the video or movies cat and have a [Action] at the end of it's name so people can just type [Action] at the end of their search terms to find Action movies... yay.

clever idea - that definately seems like a better idea than having 110 total categories!

would you mind sharing how you pulled this off juiced?

i have a little idea in mind - instead of inserting it into the torrents name itself, what about the description of the torrent? i know it would be only a few more syntax lines to the search.php that would allow it to do a description search, and it'll keep the original names and have them look a little less cluttered in searches with [___] after ever name, but in either case its still a good idea for the crawler and might even lighten the load a little bit!

[edit>>]

if anything, we can still remove the subcategories all together and simply ask people on the upload.php screen to add their idea of what subcategory fits their file into the description - opera, classic movies, etc. and even beyond that, implementing a tagging system like digg would be freakin' sweat - but thats going waaaaay off topic!

This post has been edited by phrostwave: May 12 2007, 07:06 PM

Ok, I do defienly understand about all those sub-catagores, and I am aware of the search feature etc. And one of the T-Xore & iBizy programs I am running which at this point is 3 to mess around with and 1 that is accessable to the members that does use the 1 Crawled Sub-Cat under each main catagory.

However I a pretty much a stickler for things have a place and everything in that place so I would really like to be able to get the sub-catagores working. I understand that it takes a hell of a lot of time to do this.

Was I at least in the right ball park on what I was trying to do? If not what could I do to try to get this working with the sub-cats?

Remember now I am not a PHP coder, I am a modder and try to use logic when I can to figure things out.

The one that is actually live for the members to use only has 7 Catagories and then under that 7 Sub-Crawled catagories, I just think it well looks not all that great. And again I know they can use search but to make things as idiot proof as possbile would be the goal here.

So if anyone can at least tell me if the code I am using is in the right context and what else would need to be changed such as the arrays etc please let me know. I am willinig to take the time to do this to get this to work and would if I can get it to work once finish put the finished code here so others don't have to type all that shit themselves.

the sub cats would be coded in exactly the same was as the main cats. Theres even an example in the config which is commented out. Theres also a function inside the pluggins to handle them which at the moment just does a return but it would have to be coded to look something like the main cats function.

Now explaining it a little more, i'll use torrentspy as an example:

movies have 47 main cats? music has 32? software has about 10?

see how the numbers piled up already? right so we might try and cut that down a little so movies has three sub titles such as -movie- genre, -movie/show- genre and -other- genre. Seeing as the genre itself is usually overlaps we could just ignore the movie and other tags and stick em all in just the genre. that said we'd still have over 20 left. Now back to the config this is where we set our own preference of genre's so we could have dozen for movies? maybe same for music? and theres 8 main cats (i think) so thats how many subs?

Now the whole just grabbing the cat that the site calls it is great for viewing but has absolutely no use when searching to viewing stuff from just one sub cat. even if you have [action] what if another site calls it something different? then you could have three sub cats for the same thing but all called something different.

Understood jaggi and I can see where it would be a monter to do in quite a few instances, however I am only concened with the stock cats and sub-cats that already exist in T-Xore. As I stated on the one that I have working with the 1 sub-cat for each main catagory called for instance for Movies it's CrawledMovies. This is all well and good. However again if someone is actully looking for say nothing but Horror movies it would be much nicer and easier for them to just to go the Horror sub-cat and get what they want from there.

Basically my question was and stil is was on somewhat on the rigth track or was I way off base as this is essentially how this works with the 1 sub-cat under the 1 main cat. Again, I am not a programmer but I am tryng to learn here and it really is kinda frustrating to know that this is close at hand if 1 Sub-cat for each of the main cats can be make then there has to be a way to just carry on to do the rest of them. But I guess I just don't have enough knowledge and was just going by what I was seeing in the exisitng config code, part of which was actually commented out the bottom part of the config for the arrays. Hell if I don't ask these questions I will never learn.

Again, as it stands at this point if I can get the correct code going I will take the time to do it for all the sub-cats for T-xore this time, but alas as I said I don't know if I am going in the right direction or not, I was just following what was already in the code by deych!

Oh, ok, now that I see that the pluggins are playing another role in this I know this will be out of the realm of my capabilites, damn!

Thanks,

Hustler

i'll look into it, at the moment the question isn't how to do its how to do it quickest and simplest.

This post has been edited by Jaggi: May 13 2007, 03:07 AM

Thanks jaggi, i'm not really wanting someone else to do it if it is that big of a deal, I would just wish I could do it on my own and again I am not sure if I was on the right path at all or off in left field somewhere?

ok it is not so hard to insert torrents with subcat from ibitzy i am not a php coder i just know some basics.i did it at my site i only take torrents from mininova and meganova and placed to the correct subcat i also take the description of the torrent.
if you follow the logic of categories at ibitzy you can do the same with subcats.

hey if i am off topic excuse me.

nice t-xore site tera7

tera7, do you have an example of the codes that you used to accomplish this? If so would you either PM it to me if you don't want to make it public, this is something that I would really like to get working and as Proxykill said Nice Site!

That is a nice t-xore site.