I've just created a custom script which essentially an IMDB scraper. If you could test functionality for me by entering movie names and also critiquing what should be included/excluded in the design and other features I would highly appreciate it. URL: http://www.phpmdb.com
I've tested and looks great in showing up movie informations but still there is something you needs to fix at search.php file check this error Warning: Header may not contain more than a single header, new line detected in /home/*******/public_html/phpmdb.com/search.php on line 36 Code (markup): i guess it is too much simple, I mean you needs to create an attractive style for it based on css3. Also tags .. create below the searching input field tag cloud of most searching keywords and it can be easily done if you depends on mysql Good luck
Sorry about that error. It was a slight problem with our registrar that has been fixed. That error will be ironed out ASAP, didn't realize that bug was in this release of it. The design of it will be more creative that is for sure coming up shortly. We're definitely looking for possible feature additions that consumers would like to see on a movie site. This is not to be IMDB competition of any sort of course. Tags would be a nice concept that we could include. How would you envision the keywords/tags be come into play? Example: Movie titles, genres, actors?
I think tags should be Movie titles Maybe this idea you like ! since the output of Starring is something like this Colin Farrell, Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker Code (markup): you can explode the output of starring by "," so you can gets the starring into array <?PHP $output = "Colin Farrell, Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker"; $starring = explode(",", $output); echo $starring[0]; // Colin Farrell ?> PHP: then using for each you can convert each actor name to be a line based on wikipedia API Example for 1st array results http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=extracts&titles=Colin Farrell&format=xml&exintro=1 Code (markup): by using simplexml_load_file then you can gets the text about that actor at wikipedia meanwhile if not, it will return nothing also you should put it inside container. so imagine you can store the results into database as well but if your project is not dp depended then you can just garb the content upon request and that is it.
I definitely appreciate your input. That's an idea I'll most likely be incorporating into the script to give it an additional feature.
Thank you. Reviews are one of the next additions to it. We'll be looking at a built-in commenting system with a mix of social network plugins.
If you mean "Krrish", it may be because of your spelling. Our system is usually able to interpret movie names with similar spelling but in this case it was thrown off just a bit. In this case it will be straightened out shortly. Thank you for your discovery.
ohhh sorry it was my mistake but still not impressive i thought u need to make some graphical changes to make this functionality more impressive. nice program
Hi Havoc, From an homepage that looks so much like Google I would have expected autocomplete. Can you implement it?
The current homepage will have a slight redesign but it will still keep the simple Google'ish style. Autocomplete is indeed a plan that will be integrated within the next one or two updates (ETA: 1-2 weeks) after other features and stability are controlled.
Constructive criticism is appreciated regardless. There have been some changes. The main concern when it comes to current aspects are if there should be any changes. More features will be added and we would also like to know what the common things are that should be included.
Needs a nice banner especially on homepage, also movie pages need more margin and there's lots of empty space in middle of the page.