[mythtv-users] Which table?

[Michael Sullivan]

On Sun, 2008-09-21 at 07:37 -0700, Allen Edwards wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 7:02 AM, Michael Sullivan
> <michael at espersunited.com> wrote:
> > I'd like to write a PHP script that will access the mythconverg database
> > and query for a list of programs being recorded the current day and
> > email that list to myself and another user.  I can write the script to
> > query the db and send the email, but I can't figure out which table
> > holds that information.  My best bet was the record table, but it seems
> > to only return data for shows that I've marked not to record:
> >
> > For example:
> >
> > mysql> select title, starttime from record where startdate="2008-09-22";
> > +------------------------+-----------+
> > | title                  | starttime |
> > +------------------------+-----------+
> > | The Last Samurai       | 19:00:00  |
> > | The Poseidon Adventure | 03:30:00  |
> > | Paranormal State       | 22:30:00  |
> > | Paranormal State       | 22:00:00  |
> > | Paranormal State       | 21:30:00  |
> > | Paranormal State       | 21:00:00  |
> > | The Poseidon Adventure | 03:30:00  |
> > +------------------------+-----------+
> > 7 rows in set (0.16 sec)
> >
> >
> > In the MythTV interface, the only program listed to record on 9-22 is
> > "Terminator:  The Sarah Connor Chronicles".  However, if I search for
> > that in the record table:
> >
> > mysql> select title, starttime, startdate from record where
> > title="Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles";
> > +-----------------------------------------+-----------+------------+
> > | title                                   | starttime | startdate  |
> > +-----------------------------------------+-----------+------------+
> > | Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles | 19:00:00  | 2008-01-13 |
> > +-----------------------------------------+-----------+------------+
> > 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
> >
> > The only record is from a long time ago.  Those shows up above are
> > listed above in the db are listed in the GUI, but they are manual "Don't
> > record"s I have a lot of space issues, so I go through the listing in
> > the GUI each time I run mythfilldatabase and mark things not to record
> > that I know will be on again soon.  Can anyone help me?
> >
> >
> >
> This sounds like a good script to have.  Please share it when you are done.
> 
> In terms of the data base, I would search for  "%Sarah%" instead of
> the entire title.  Perhaps the entire title didn't show up because of
> some punctuation difference and finding all the shows with just part
> of the title in them would uncover that.
> 
> Allen

I've been using "WHERE title LIKE "%Terminator%";  I wrote in to the
devs list about this several months ago and they told me to dive into
the code.  I've grepped the code every way I can think of looking for a
place to start from, but I can't make sense of it...
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