IMDb Generator (Online)

[c0san1j]

Thanks I understand better but i stumble a bit on preg_match command I read about it and I cant seem how people manage to get the right stuff out weird symbol that make no sense to me

 preg_match('#\[IMG\](.*)\[\/IMG\]#', $data, $matches); 

This what I don't understand much #\[IMG\](.*)\[\/IMG\]# what is all the simple telling what to search can you break it down to me explain what those do? like # is and / is and other symbol I manage to learn ^ start line and $ endline ect

c0san1j Reviewed by c0san1j on 9th Jan 2012. IMDb Generator (Online) http://www.l337fx.com/tools/imdb/files/logo.png WHAT IS IMDb GENERATOR ?IMDb Generator is a free online tool developed by BlaZe. It is useful for uploaders who wish to grab movie details & poster from IMDb.com and use it in their topics/threads/posts. It is currently in beta stage and you can expect few bugs. Also it would be nice if you can suggest some features as its made for you. THREE DIFFERENT OUTPUTS BBCode (used in forums, message boards, etc.) HTML (used in wordpress, joomla, Rating: 5

[deliteblogger]

preg_match uses "Perl Compatible Regex library" so you have to search for Regex or regular expression in Google to find infos about it. It's a pretty powerful tool, worth to learn.

'#\[IMG\](.*)\[\/IMG\]#' is the search pattern string

# is the delimiter (it's on both sides of the string). You can use modifiers that are placed after the ending delimiter. For example '#\[IMG\](.*)\[\/IMG\]#i' for case-insensitive search (so both IMG and img match the pattern)

\[IMG\] matches the string [IMG]. You have to escape [ and ] by a backslash because normally you use those to match a character set ([a-z] matches any letter, [a-zA-z0-9_] any alphanumeric character and underscore)

. matches any character

* means 0 or more times (if it wouldnt be there, in your case, it would only match a single character, like [IMG]a[/IMG] or [IMG]1[/IMG]...). In the place of * you can also use + for one or more times or {max,min} like {2,10} for min x, max y times.

(.*) parentheses are used to capture a part of a pattern. $matches[0] will contain the whole matching string, $matches[1] the first captured part (between the first pair of parentheses), $matches[2] the second ...

\/ - here the / is also escaped, I don't really know why, I think it would work without it. It should be escaped when the delimiter is not # but /.

[deliteblogger]

and yeah, ^ matches starting of a line (or of the whole string, depending on modifiers), $ matches end of line/string.

[c0san1j]

thank for the help another thing is there a way to test the result of curl?

[deliteblogger]

$url='http://www.imdb.com/';

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
$content = curl_exec($ch);
$info = curl_getinfo($ch);
curl_close($ch); 

$content will contain the requested page

http://php.net/manual/en/function.curl-exec.php
http://php.net/manual/en/function.curl-getinfo.php

[c0san1j]

thank you very much sir

[BlaZe]

Note:
It'll take me more time to fix the grabbing error from IMDb.com since I use a pre-made class and until the original owner fixes it, I cannot do much. Till now I've figured out only to fix the 'Genres' data, rest is still to be fixed. So sorry for the delay.

[t3od0r]

what you want to fix?

[smookyguns]

link is down any other alternative

[Apathetic]

^You can try this one for the mean time.