Let’s see, what a single PHP page can do….

IMDB (Internet Movie DataBase) has info on every movie ever made (or so it seems). Lets see how to grab IMDB information with a single PHP page….

PHP Code

<?php

//url

$url = ‘http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1166100/’;

//get the page content

$imdb_content = get_data($url);

//parse for product name

$name = get_match(’/<title>(.*)<\/title>/isU’,$imdb_content);

$director = strip_tags(get_match(’/<h5[^>]*>Director:<\/h5>(.*)<\/div>/isU’,$imdb_content));

$plot = get_match(’/<h5[^>]*>Plot:<\/h5>(.*)<\/div>/isU’,$imdb_content);

$release_date = get_match(’/<h5[^>]*>Release Date:<\/h5>(.*)<\/div>/isU’,$imdb_content);

$mpaa = get_match(’/<a href=”\/mpaa”>MPAA<\/a>:<\/h5>(.*)<\/div>/isU’,$imdb_content);

$run_time = get_match(’/Runtime:<\/h5>(.*)<\/div>/isU’,$imdb_content);

//build content

$content.= ‘<h2>Film</h2><p>’.$name.’</p>’;

$content.= ‘<h2>Director</h2><p>’.$director.’</p>’;

$content.= ‘<h2>Plot</h2><p>’.substr($plot,0,strpos($plot,’<a’)).’</p>’;

$content.= ‘<h2>Release Date</h2><p>’.substr($release_date,0,strpos($release_date,’<a’)).’</p>’;

$content.= ‘<h2>MPAA</h2><p>’.$mpaa.’</p>’;

$content.= ‘<h2>Run Time</h2><p>’.$run_time.’</p>’;

$content.= ‘<h2>Full Details</h2><p><a href=”‘.$url.’” rel=”nofollow”>’.$url.’</a></p>’;

echo $content;

//gets the match content

function get_match($regex,$content)

{

preg_match($regex,$content,$matches);

return $matches[1];

}

//gets the data from a URL

function get_data($url)

{

$ch = curl_init();

$timeout = 5;

curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$url);

curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);

curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,$timeout);

$data = curl_exec($ch);

curl_close($ch);

return $data;

}

?>

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Result—

Demo

That’s a great IDEA to make a dynamic scrpit of movies detail… using a single php page.

I Designed a PHP Scrpt using this method which you can see here….

Yolike Movies Details

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Hope you will like this great !dea……