[PHP] Getting the TV Show Banners from TheTVDB

[Gaurav]

Made this last night. Quite handy and can be integrated with a blog/forum. Postting the function here. Do update if you have an improved code

ATM, the function would search for the TV Show in the TheTVDB database, and if found will return the banner image link uploaded to lulzimg.com

function getBanner($title){
    if(preg_match("/[a-zA-Z0-9.]+S[0-9]+E[0-9]+|[A-Za-z0-9.]+20[0-9.]+/", $title, $match)){
        $showname = trim(str_replace(".", " ", $match[0]));
        $showname = trim(preg_replace("/S[0-9]+E[0-9]+/", "", $showname));
        $url = "http://thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?seriesname=".urlencode($showname);
        $page = postHost($url);
        if(preg_match("/graphical\/[a-z0-9A-Z.\-]+/", $page, $match)){
            $img = postHost("http://www.lulzimg.com/upload.php?submit=lulz&url=http://thetvdb.com/banners/$match[0]");
            //echo $img;
            preg_match_all("/http:\/\/lulzimg.com\/[a-z0-9]+\/[a-z0-9A-Z.]+/", $img, $matches);
            $imageUrl = $matches[0][1];
            return $imageUrl;
        }
    }
} 

Please do note that the code above considers that the title of the show is in Scene Release format..

Also note, that the postHost function is a simple function which uses curl to post requests to TheTVDB. UTL and AutoUL users have that function in the script.

Ex:
The.Best.Thing.I.Ever.Ate.S03E03.Regional.Favorite s.HDTV.XviD-MOMENTUM

Hope that helps.

Regards,
gunda316

Gaurav Reviewed by Gaurav on 6th Oct 2010. [PHP] Getting the TV Show Banners from TheTVDB Made this last night. Quite handy and can be integrated with a blog/forum. Postting the function here. Do update if you have an improved code :) ATM, the function would search for the TV Show in the TheTVDB database, and if found will return the banner image link uploaded to lulzimg.com function getBanner($title){ if(preg_match("/+S+E+|+20+/", $title, $match)){ $showname = trim(str_replace(".", " ", $match)); $showname = trim(preg_replace("/S+E+/", "", $showname)); Rating: 5

[Halcyon]

Great job

[Gaurav]

Great job

Thnx V3g3t4

[CJ]

sexy thanks I wanted to have that. Its good

[gtaclub]

Good job bro...It is working fine...Thanks for you handy coding.

[Daniel]

Well done mate

[Gaurav]

sexy thanks I wanted to have that. Its good

Good job bro...It is working fine...Thanks for you handy coding.

Well done mate

NP.. I needed this myself

[CJ]

Here is the whole running PHP code. If u dont know how to make it work after seeing gundas post. I have just added the wrapper around the function Gunda

<?
function getBanner($title)
{
    if(preg_match("/[a-zA-Z0-9.]+S[0-9]+E[0-9]+|[A-Za-z0-9.]+20[0-9.]+/", $title, $match)){
        $showname = trim(str_replace(".", " ", $match[0]));
        $showname = trim(preg_replace("/S[0-9]+E[0-9]+/", "", $showname));
        $url = "http://thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?seriesname=".urlencode($showname);
        $page = postHost($url, "", "");
        if(preg_match("/graphical\/[a-z0-9A-Z.\-]+/", $page, $match)){
            $img = postHost("http://www.lulzimg.com/upload.php?submit=lulz&url=http://thetvdb.com/banners/$match[0]", "", "");
            //echo $img;
            preg_match_all("/http:\/\/lulzimg.com\/[a-z0-9]+\/[a-z0-9A-Z.]+/", $img, $matches);
            $imageUrl = $matches[0][1];
            return $imageUrl;
        }
    }
} 
function postHost($url)
{
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIESESSION, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 60);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1); 
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 60);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)");
    $source_code = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);
    return $source_code;
}
if (empty($_POST))
{
?>
<form method=post>
<input type="text" name="img" />
<input type="Submit" value="Submit" />
</form>
<?PHP
}
else
{
$img= getBanner($_POST['img']);
echo "<B>$img</B><BR/><BR/>";
echo "<img src=\"$img\" />";
}
?>

If you dont know how to run it than plz dont use it

Note: Not all the release name would work. Most of them work tho

Thanks Gunda u are charm

[Gaurav]

Here is the whole running PHP code. If u dont know how to make it work after seeing gundas post. I have just added the wrapper around the function Gunda

<?
function getBanner($title)
{
    if(preg_match("/[a-zA-Z0-9.]+S[0-9]+E[0-9]+|[A-Za-z0-9.]+20[0-9.]+/", $title, $match)){
        $showname = trim(str_replace(".", " ", $match[0]));
        $showname = trim(preg_replace("/S[0-9]+E[0-9]+/", "", $showname));
        $url = "http://thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?seriesname=".urlencode($showname);
        $page = postHost($url, "", "");
        if(preg_match("/graphical\/[a-z0-9A-Z.\-]+/", $page, $match)){
            $img = postHost("http://www.lulzimg.com/upload.php?submit=lulz&url=http://thetvdb.com/banners/$match[0]", "", "");
            //echo $img;
            preg_match_all("/http:\/\/lulzimg.com\/[a-z0-9]+\/[a-z0-9A-Z.]+/", $img, $matches);
            $imageUrl = $matches[0][1];
            return $imageUrl;
        }
    }
} 
function postHost($url)
{
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIESESSION, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 60);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1); 
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 60);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)");
    $source_code = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);
    return $source_code;
}
if (empty($_POST))
{
?>
<form method=post>
<input type="text" name="img" />
<input type="Submit" value="Submit" />
</form>
<?PHP
}
else
{
$img= getBanner($_POST['img']);
echo "<B>$img</B><BR/><BR/>";
echo "<img src=\"$img\" />";
}
?>

If you dont know how to run it than plz dont use it

Note: Not all the release name would work. Most of them work tho

Thanks Gunda u are charm

Thnx humour.. I was too lazy to add that

[aishamontreal]

haha thanks gunda, just integrated it to Yawn' script