Open Manga Reader

First, I am sorry if this post doesn't fit with this forum category, I just want to share my stuff related with manga.

I am amarullz. I am new in this forum & this is my first topic, and I am a big One Piece & other Manga fans. My hobby is programming & read manga offcourse. Not long ago I create some usefull stuff (maybe just for my own ) to manage downloaded manga into some easy to read. I named it OpenMangaReader (you will never found it anywhere except on this topic for now).

Here the screenshoot:

And Here the download link:
http://amarullz.110mb.com/data/mangareader.tar.gz
or
http://amarullz.110mb.com/data/mangareader.zip
or
http://amarullz.110mb.com/data/mangareader.rar

How to use?

# * Windows
#   You need php.exe and php5ts.dll to build your manga reader,
#   you can download it in [url]http://www.php.net/[/url]
#   copy php.exe and php5ts.dll into the same directory where you
#   place mangareader_builder.php 
#
#   Run in the command line something like this:
#   c:\>mangabuilder.bat "c:\folder_to_manga\" "One Piece"
#   
#   Try to open the "c:\folder_to_manga" there will be index.html
#
# * Unix/Linux
#   You need to install the php package
#   (I don't need to tell you how :D)
#   Simply run the mangareader_builder.php on your terminal, 
#   and read the help message... 
#   NOTE FOR UNIX USER:
#   The manga directory must be writable access.
#

```**Where and How Should I Place My Manga Images?**
Create some directory like this:

[b][font]/OnePiece
|
+--- Volume1
|
+--- Chapter 1
|
+--- Page1.png
[/font][font] +--- Page2.png
[/font][font] +--- ...
[/font][font]
+--- Chapter 2
|
+--- 001.png
[/font][font] +--- 002.png
[/font][font] +--- ...
[/font][font]
+--- Volume2
|
+--- Chapter 1
|
+--- 01.png
[/font][font] +--- 02.png
[/font][font] +--- ...
[/font][font]
+--- Chapter 2
|
+--- c2_p01.png
[/font][font] +--- [/font][font]c2_p0[/font][font]2.png
[/font][font] +--- ...[/font]
[font] +--- Chapter ....

[/font][font] +--- Volume ....[/font][/b]

# ./mangareader_builder.php "/OnePiece" "One Piece (Eiichiro Oda)"
then you can open index.html on "/OnePiece" directory.

**Reccomended Browser**:
I reccomended you to use firefox or opera, In IE6 the top toolbar act wired due the unstandard css style "position:fixed" behaviour.

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I will be happy if somebody can compile it with something like **bamcompiler** or whatever to make the windows user easier to use it without download the php.exe and php5ts.dll, I can't do it because I am use Linux in my PC.

Or maybe another mirror or screenshoot :grin:!!

And sorry for my bad-bad-bad-bad english…
I hope this little program will usefull for you.

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**And some tips from me:**

If you already create your own manga directory, it will be useful to manage it like this:

- Example: you place the onepiece manga in folder "C:\manga\onepiece"
- Place the manga builder on "C:\manga\builder" (copy all files + php)
- Create update.bat in "C:\manga\onepiece" (C:\manga\onepiece\update.bat)
- edit update.bat with notepad/other text editor with this content:

@echo off
..\builder\php ..\builder\mangareader_builder.php "." "One Piece (Eiichiro Oda)"
pause

Power

Hi amarullz, welcome to the forums.

This looks like an incredibly useful tool! Thanks for making it and sharing. I'll give it a go when I get back home from work and I'll give you feedback.

Could I possibly give you a small suggestion though? Do you think it would be possible to have the chapters as Zip/Rar files and have your utility read directly from them (or even extract them itself if necessary). This would make it incredibly more useful since it takes away from the work of setting it up. That being said, keep up the good work and thanks again for your input!

MagneticMonkey

Amazing stuff. I wonder if you could include a download location in the script so that it gets the one piece images for each chapter till the last one and organize the structure you've proposed.
My thought. The script downloads all the manga pages (at least if you already have some chapters it downloads the rest)
then the script extract these files and put them in the structure you've mentioned
The script do the rest of the job to make it easier to read them and creates the html file(s).
(but the update stuff would be a lot of work. You have to probably build a list of the already downloaded chapters and run through it) Suggestion: as you are using linux it would be nice to use bash. Anyone under windows should use cygwin hrhrhr

@Power:

Do you think it would be possible to have the chapters as Zip/Rar files and have your utility read directly from them

Yes, but you need a Web Server (apache+php) installed on your PC (and the coding will be 100% different).

My idea about this tools is for easy to use & platform independent manga reader, user don't need to install the web server. So after you build the reader, you can burn it into the dvd and simply run the index.html to read your manga.

(but if the builder which crawl the zip it's possible, and still the builder need to extract it, so the html file can access the images)

Normally HTML will not be able to read the zip contents.

@MagneticMonkey:

I wonder if you could include a download location in the script so that it gets the one piece images for each chapter till the last one and organize the structure you've proposed.

Good idea… I will think it latter (the idea will only work when you run the builder)

Power

@amarullz:

Yes, but you need a Web Server (apache+php) installed on your PC (and the coding will be 100% different).

My idea about this tools is for easy to use & platform independent manga reader, user don't need to install the web server. So after you build the reader, you can burn it into the dvd and simply run the index.html to read your manga.

(but if the builder which crawl the zip it's possible, and still the builder need to extract it, so the html file can access the images)

Normally HTML will not be able to read the zip contents.

Aha! You are absolutely right. The idea proposed by MagneticMonkey should be enough to ease the work of setting up.

Still, don't feel forced to do anything. This is an amazing tool, just keep up posted if you do in fact make any updates to it!

ultimec1a

@amarullz:

First, I am sorry if this post doesn't fit with this forum category, I just want to share my stuff related with manga.

Hi amarullz. I am new in this forum & this is my first topic, and I am a big One Piece & other Manga fans. My hobby is programming & read manga offcourse. Not long ago I create some usefull stuff (maybe just for my own ) to manage downloaded manga into some easy to read. I named it OpenMangaReader (you will never found it anywhere except on this topic for now).

Here the screenshoot:
http://amarullz.110mb.com/data/a2.jpg

And Here the download link:
http://amarullz.110mb.com/data/mangareader.tar.gz
or
http://amarullz.110mb.com/data/mangareader.zip
or
http://amarullz.110mb.com/data/mangareader.rar

How to use?
# * Windows
#   You need php.exe and php5ts.dll to build your manga reader,
#   you can download it in [url]http://www.php.net/[/url]
#   copy php.exe and php5ts.dll into the same directory where you
#   place mangareader_builder.php 
#
#   Run in the command line something like this:
#   c:\>mangabuilder.bat "c:\folder_to_manga\" "One Piece"
#   
#   Try to open the "c:\folder_to_manga" there will be index.html
#
# * Unix/Linux
#   You need to install the php package
#   (I don't need to tell you how :D)
#   Simply run the mangareader_builder.php on your terminal, 
#   and read the help message... 
#   NOTE FOR UNIX USER:
#   The manga directory must be writable access.
#

```**Where and How Should I Place My Manga Images?**
Create some directory like this:
[b][font]/OnePiece
|
+--- Volume1
|
+--- Chapter 1
|
+--- Page1.png
[/font][font] +--- Page2.png
[/font][font] +--- ...
[/font][font]
+--- Chapter 2
|
+--- 001.png
[/font][font] +--- 002.png
[/font][font] +--- ...
[/font][font]
+--- Volume2
|
+--- Chapter 1
|
+--- 01.png
[/font][font] +--- 02.png
[/font][font] +--- ...
[/font][font]
+--- Chapter 2
|
+--- c2_p01.png
[/font][font] +--- [/font][font]c2_p0[/font][font]2.png
[/font][font] +--- ...[/font]
[font] +--- Chapter ....

[/font][font] +--- Volume ....[/font][/b]
# ./mangareader_builder.php "/OnePiece" "One Piece (Eiichiro Oda)"
then you can open index.html on "/OnePiece" directory.

**Reccomended Browser**:
I reccomended you to use firefox or opera, In IE6 the top toolbar act wired due the unstandard css style "position:fixed" behaviour.

–------------------

I will be happy if somebody can compile it with something like **bamcompiler** or whatever to make the windows user easier to use it without download the php.exe and php5ts.dll, I can't do it because I am use Linux in my PC.

Or maybe another mirror or screenshoot :grin:!!

And sorry for my bad-bad-bad-bad english…
I hope this little program will usefull for you.

I love you. But seriously, this is incredible… Oh, and welcome to Arlong Park Forums Buddy!

I am glad if this tool is useful for you, but I think someone (admin) should be move this thread into another category (my bad), because i think this post not fit in one piece manga category…

MagneticMonkey

btw you can edit your posts and modify them. So you don't need to post the changes in a new one.