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

[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.