Quoting 8ballMax:

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I think tt would get messy because now you when you want to see the credits for a certain actor they would be doubled because they are being credited twice per profile.

Unless I am misunderstanding you, this doesn't happen.

Take Ben Affleck, in 'The Sum of All Fears', as an example.  Because the end credits are in 'order of appearance', I have him listed twice...once above the divider in opening credits order and again under the divider as per end credits.  When I double click on him in another movie, his role only shows one time for this profile.

That is true... they are only counted once per profile in the program. But IF I remember correctly when I was using phpdvdprofiler... there it actually counted every occurrence even the multiple times per profile showed up there. Not that... that should be a consideration on the matter... it just popped in my head when I read this. 

Quoting 8ballMax:

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I think tt would get messy because now you when you want to see the credits for a certain actor they would be doubled because they are being credited twice per profile.

No, the credits would not be doubled in the profile, neither in the database nor on the display. Only a little checked box would indicate that in the original movie the actor has been credited twice.

Quoting synner_man:

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Instead of a checkbox, how about a field where you can enter the order in which their name appeared (entering 1, 2, 3, etc.) in the opening credits?  Similar to the photo indicator, we could have a little star next to the name.  If you choose to sort by the star, it would revert to the order entered in the field.

I like the idea of numbering the cast that are top-bill credited in opening (or "pre-closing") credits. In addition, I would enhance it as follows:

1. reports could have a "top-billed" display option that uses the order data and is limited to only those cast elements containing the top-billed order.
2.  the program itself would have a cast display option would replicate through programming what some of the users are already manually doing...a viewable top-billed list then a separator followed by the cast in proper credits order.

I think this would save some of the double entry that users are doing locally as well, and at the same time would enhance or make more useful the display and reporting of casts. It would also solve the double-reporting problem in phpDVDProfiler.

What do you guys think?

EDIT: I just realized this wouldn't work flawlessly on TV show profiles, especially if they "top-billed" credits vary in certain episodes on a single disc (Babylon 5 comes to mind for a small handful of episodes). But I'm sure we could figure out a way to make the idea work.

Quoting FredLooks:

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Quoting 8ballMax:

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I believe I was confusing the Program with my phpDVDProfiler page as Pete says .

[offtopic] ... and I've changed the next version of phpDVDProfiler so that it shows both statistics ...[/offtopic]

You Da Man .