how to use php cUrl to search and get image from amazon.com

Hi guys,

I wanted to use the cUrl function and get image url from amazon.com
so this is how it going to be:

1. Search the music by artist and album's name (eg. Fall out boy - Infinity on high)
2. Grasp the album's image url from the first result
3. Insert that image url into my database.

How do i do that? Or is there anywhere that i can look?

 

i know it's not 24 hours since i last posted but anyone?

 

u can use preg n match to specifiy what you want then use arrays to to feed the information to your databes for other use somewhere else

say if you had a div with a class of images, somthin like <DIV CLASS="amazon_imges">the image detals here< /DIV>

preg_match (/<DIV CLASS="amazon_imges">(.*)< \/DIV>/,$curlvar, $output)

then add $output[0] to your database

look into it

 

<?php

$artist = "Kanye West";
$album = "Graduation";

$artist = str_replace(' ','+',$artist);
$album = str_replace(' ', '+', $album);

$url = "http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/?search-alias=popular";
// add artist
$url .= "&field-artist=" . $artist;
// add title
$url .= "&field-title=" . $album;
// add the rest
$url .= "&sort=relevancerank";

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 4);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);   
$html = curl_exec($ch);

// the html of the search result page is now contained within the variable $html

PHP:

Do something with Preg_match i dont have time to build the full function but it will be easy i hope next poster does it heres a hint:

1-1"> <img src="(.*)" class=""

PHP:

Can anyone help me with my situation btw:
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=866142

 

i'll get started

 

Ok i got a problem with preg_match already when there is both quote (") and apostrophe(') in $html

some search result return different html
for instance, this is in the html

1-1"> <img onload="if (typeof uet =='function') { uet('af'); }" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/x-locale/common/transparent-pixel._V42752373_.gif" class=""

Code (markup):

now how do i use preg_match to match that? it has both quote and apostrophe in it therefore, i decided to use backslash \' but it didn't work

if(preg_match('/1-1"> <img onload="if (typeof uet ==\'function\') { uet(\'af\'); }" src="(.*)" class=""/', $html, $d_link))
{
	echo "working";
}
else
{
	echo "nothing working";
}

PHP: