flox/README.md

Flox 2.0

The next version of flox contains many new features and changes. Readme will be updated soon.

Requirements

• PHP >=7.1
• Database (MySQL or other)
• Composer
• The Movie Database Account for the free API-Key

Install

git clone https://github.com/devfake/flox
cd flox/backend
composer install
php artisan flox:init # Enter here your database credentials
php artisan flox:db # Running migrations and enter your admin credentials for the site

• Give backend/storage, public/assets and public/exports recursive write access.
• Enter your TMDb API-Key in backend/.env
• Set your CLIENT_URI in backend/.env. If you use something like XAMPP or MAMP, the CLIENT_URI should be /flox/public. If you use something like Homestead, the CLIENT_URI should be /.

# CLIENT_URI=/flox/public
http://localhost:8888/flox/public

# CLIENT_URI=/subfolder/for/flox/public
http://mydomain.com/subfolder/for/flox/public

# CLIENT_URI=/
http://mydomain.com

Suggestions

If you hover over an item, you can click on Suggestions to search for recommendations and similar movies or shows.

Popular Movies

Trending will display a list of the current popular movies on TMDb. This list updates daily.

Upcoming Movies

Upcoming will display new movies which will be released soon. TMDb do not yet support regional queries but this is coming soon.

Calendar

The Calendar will show you a simple calendar for your episodes and movies (items from the watchlist have a small eye icon next to the title). If you click on a item, flox will redirect you to the subpage of this item. The calendar will be expanded in the future.

Movies and tv shows have different colors for better differentiation. You can also use the arrow keys to jump months forward or backward.

Update

For each update i will make an extra release. These are the common steps to upgrade flox:

git fetch
git checkout x.x.x
cd backend
composer install
php artisan migrate

If you go to the settings page of your installation, flox will automatically check for new updates.

Queue

To import or refresh any of your entries you need to have at least one worker running.

# spawn a single worker
php artisan queue:work --daemon --tries=3

# or

./bin/start_queue 4  # number determines the amount of workers, defaults to 1
./bin/stop_queue  # stop all workers

Check the documentation for more informations.

Cron Job

To utilize the queues to update automatically you have to set up a cron task once manually on your server.

* * * * * php /path/to/artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1

You can use crontab -e to add this new Cron task.

Make sure Cron is running and you are good to go.

sudo service cron status

This Cron will call the Laravel command scheduler every minute. Then, Laravel evaluates your scheduled tasks and runs the tasks that are due.

Currently in Flox defined tasks:

When	Description
Daily	Update all Entities from TMDb

Export / Import

Also you can make a backup of all your movies and shows in the settings page. If you click the EXPORT MOVIES button, there will be an download for an json file. This file contains all your movies and shows from your database. This backup file will also be automatically saved in your public/exports folder.

If you import an backup, all movies and shows in your database will be deleted and replaced. Be sure to make an current backup before you import. The import will download all poster images.

After the import, you can refresh the complete data (add missing episodes, update ratings and more) in the settings page.

Refresh data

To keep your entries up to date (e.g. ratings, episodes, images) you need to refresh them. In the settings there is the possibility to refresh the data manually or via a cron job (you need the queue worker for this). If you want to refresh only a single entry, there is a button on the subpage of this item.

Reminders

Flox can send you a daily reminder of episodes or movies coming out today via mail. Or a weekly summary of episodes and movies coming out in the last 7 days. There are options in the settings page for this.

Make sure you tweak the DATE_FORMAT_PATTERN config in your .env file.

Translation

All titles are in english by default. You can change your language by setting TRANSLATION in backend/.env. The most commons are DE, IT, FR, ES and RU. You can try to use your language code.

This will also affect the language of you website. See in client/resources/languages if your language is supported. Pull requests are welcome :)

If there isn't a translation for your language, english will be used.

Settings

You can edit your admin account (username and password) in the settings page (link is in footer).

You can also set options to display release date and/or genre of your own list. Both will still display on search, trending and upcoming. If you want to hide your ratings (or show only on hover) there is also an option for this.

There is an option to enable or disable spoiler protection for episode names.

Troubleshooting

Import does not work

• Your import file is probably to big. In default php.ini the max upload file is 2MB. Set the number higher and try again.
• Make sure that the queue worker is active! Otherwise flox will tell you the import is running, but nothing happens!

Development

• Run npm install or yarn in your /client folder.
• Make sure you have installed webpack globally.
• Run npm run dev or npm run build.

Contribution

Like this project? Want to contribute? Awesome! Feel free to open some pull requests or just open an issue.

Changelog

Detailed changes for each release are documented in the release notes.

License

Flox is published under the MIT license. See LICENSE for more information.