| v2.6.1 (19.05.2015) |  |
|---|
|
|---|
 |
Fix year being missing when searching for films like "Home (II) (2015)" |
|
Add a cache folder in the default location to stop exceptions with default config |
| v2.6.0 (03.05.2015) | |
|---|
|
|---|
 |
Added ability to fetch metacritic rating and number of reviews. `imdb::metacriticRating()` and `imdb::metacriticNumReviews()` |
|
An exception will be thrown if you have configured caching but the folder is not writeable. If you do not want caching `usecache` and `storecache` must be false. |
|
Fix top250 rank parsing |
| v2.5.0 (25.03.2015) | |
|---|
|
|---|
 |
Changed `credits` in `imdb_person` to return an array for addons as the docblock states |
|
Fixed `writing()` credits for tv show |
|
Handle a title with no cast |
|
Fix rating parsing when using european languages |
|
Remove usage of short array syntax |
| v2.4.1 (02.01.2015) | |
|---|
|
|---|
|
Add two extra fields to `cast()`. `credited` indicates whether the actor was credited for that role or not. `role_other` is an array of any other extra information put again the role, such as 'voice' or 'archive footage' |
|
Fix multiple roles per actor not showing in the 'role' field of `cast()` |
|
Fix link to movie overview page in the demo site |
| v2.4 (13.12.2014) |
|---|
|
Speed up poster parsing and fix errors on large pages |
|
Fix `awards()` where award has no recipients, no category or large notes |
|
Fix `cast()` parsing of role. The role field no longer contains anything other than the name of the role played |
|
Added extra fields for number of episodes and years playing the role to `cast()` |
|
Fix photo field in `cast()` results to correctly remove the resizing bit in the url |
| v2.3.6 (21.11.2014) |
|---|
|
Fix regexp for place of death parsing when no cause of death is given |
| v2.3.5 (02.11.2014) |
|---|
|
Fix goofs parsing. |
|
Caching / requesting layer rewritten to be simpler and more modular. Cache files are different, so previously cached requests will be lost. |
|
Remove some short array syntax to keep compatibility with older versions of PHP5 (added in 2.3.4) |
| v2.3.4 (11.10.2014) |
|---|
|
Fix `runtime()` not always returning a value |
|
`ratings()` now returns an int rather than a number formatted string |
|
Fix `overview()` having a synopsis link if synopsis was used |
 |
Removes unneeded constants used in config |
|
Fix http redirects not being followed properly |
| v2.3.3 (21.08.2014) |
|---|
|
Fix date of birth and date of death parsing |
| v2.3.2 (05.08.2014) |
|---|
|
Fix sound, color and countries methods (broken due to imdb change) |
|
Remove 'Add a Plot' from outline method when no outline exists |
|
fixing up APIDoc to work with the current processor once more |
| v2.3.1 |
|---|
|
Fix 'creator' parsing |
| v2.3 (31.07.2014) |
|---|
|
New interface for searching people and films ( ->search($searchTerms) ) |
|
Add composer support |
|
Add ability to pass config into classes to override default config. This makes it possible use imdb without editing or adding files to the imdb library folder |
|
Fix episode parsing |
|
Fix referrer header being same as $_SERVER['referer'] when making requests to imdb |
|
Remove unnecessary config key 'trigger_referer' |
| v2.2.4 (05.06.2014) |
|---|
|
phpUnit tests added (DJMcTom) |
|
some code cleanup and RegExp speedup (DJMcTom) |
|
removed support for PEAR http request (DJMcTom) |
|
Fix alsoknow so it correctly splits country and comments (DJMcTom) |
|
Make sure endyear is the startyear if film has no production span (DJMcTom) |
|
Include imdb class in imdbsearch class to prevent errors (DJMcTom) |
|
declaring imdbsearch::seturl() obsolete: nowhere referenced, and does not really make sense anymore (Izzy) |
|
constructor of mdb_base had a mandatory parameter (id) which was not used. This parameter is now deprecated (no longer listed in ApiRef) but left in for compatibility, will be removed later (Izzy) |
| v2.2.3 (25.01.2014) |
|---|
|
some cleanup to imdb::plot_split |
|
IMDB site updates hit us again. Fixed: imdb::awards(), imdb_person::bio() |
|
Episode search was broken due to incomplete redirect handling in imdbsearch::results() |
|
tiny fix to imdb_person::filmograf() to return all character names |
| v2.2.2 (02.12.2013) |
|---|
|
imdbperson: filmographs had skipped every second entry somehow |
|
imdbperson: born() and died() got broken due to site changes. Thanks to GeorgeFive for the fix! |
|
imdb::title() returned an empty string for movies that haven't been released yet |
|
reworked imdb::title_year() to better handle year-spans (e.g. for serials: "2010-2012") |
|
imdb: decoding IMDB external site re-directs to target URLs |
|
imdb::cast() now has an optional parameter $clean_ws (default: FALSE) to remove whitespaces (especially line-breaks) in names |
|
imdb_person: more adjustments due to site changes to birthname(), nickname(), height(), spouse(), bio(), trivia(), quotes(), trademark(), salary() |
| v2.2.1 (20.10.2013) |
|---|
|
again site changes, this time they broke the personal credits (actors, composers, writers, etc.) |
|
imdb::yearspan() didn't catch all "delimiters" used on the IMDB sites |
|
added new config option "language" (see mdb_config for details – and thanx to strikedaemon for the code!) |
|
changed a bunch of methods from private to protected, to allow overriding them by extension classes |
|
IMDB decided to introduce another /genre/ link to most popular genres, which messed up the genre() method |
|
imdb::plot() and imdb::plot_split() were broken due to another site change |
| v2.2.0 (22.09.2013) |
|---|
|
introduced the possibility to override config vars using simple *.ini files (see conf/*) |
|
removed Moviepilot classes (the service is no longer operational via its API) |
|
fixes to cache.php (listed the same movie over and over) |
|
doc/README updated |
|
cache.php now uses glob() to speed up file finding |
|
some minor code cleanup |
|
added some more example code to doc/examples |
| v2.1.9 (19.09.2013) |
|---|
|
imdb::alsoknow() and imdb::releaseInfo() were broken due to site changes |
|
imdbperson::filmograf() missed some character names due to site changes |
|
imdb::soundtrack() was broken due to site changes |
|
imdb_person: latest site changes broke all filmografies. fixed. |
|
imdb: crazy_credits(), goofs(), quotes(), video_sites() broken due to site changes |
|
while fixing imdb::video_sites, discovered more similar content on that page: soundclip_sites(), photo_sites() and misc_sites() added |
|
imdb: trivia(), officialSites() broken due to site changes |
|
imdb_person: movies_crew() and movies_archive() broken due to site changes |
| v2.1.8 (26.05.2013) |
|---|
|
improvements to the imdb::soundtrack() method. Much better results now :) |
|
imdb_person::filmograf() now fills the "addons" information again (for all movie_*() methods) |
|
imdb_person: articles(), interviews() returned garbage if that information was not available |
|
Moviepilot changed API-error message, so instead of displaying the according error we had empty result sets |
|
rewrote movieposterdb::parse_list() -- so now the movie posters, logos, covers, etc. should work again |
|
added imdb::orig_title() to retrieve the original movie title (if available; otherwise returns "") |
|
added imdb::movie_recommendations() to retrieve the "people who liked this..." movies |
|
imdb_person::spouse() was missing detail information (most likely due to site changes) -- added them back |
|
fixed a bunch of notices in person.php and imdb_person.class.php |
| v2.1.7 (15.05.2013) |
|---|
|
site changes again. Fixed: imdb::keywords_all(), imdb::taglines(), imdb:quotes(), imdb::trailers() |
|
also due to site changes: fixed imdb::soundtrack() and extended it: soundtrack[i][credit] is now an array[credit_to,desc] |
|
fixed imdb::genres() returning duplicate genres due to some added SPANs |
|
some cleanup for the plot outline in imdb::plotoutline() |
|
fixed imdb::get_episode_details() broken due to site changes |
|
fixed imdb::comment_split() broken due to site changes |
|
fixed company credits (all four methods have been broken due to site changes) |
|
removed some garbage preceding the storyline returned by imdb::storyline() |
|
imdbsearch::results() got additional parameters so results can be better filtered. Also added some safeguard for movies having a number before the year, e.g. "Safe (I) (2012)", to prevent empty years |
|
fixing imdb::mainPictures() bigsrc |
|
fixing minor issue with non-existing thumbnails in imdbphp::thumbphoto() |
| v2.1.6 (06.02.2012) |
|---|
|
bunch of IMDB changes broke things again: fixed imdb::votes(), imdb::movietype(), imdb::country(), imdb::genres(), imdb::mpaa_reason() |
|
same reason: fixed imdb::thumbphoto() -- and thus all dependent photo methods resolve again |
|
same reason, more fixes: imdb::keywords() |
|
same reason, fixed imdb::seasons() -- which implicitly fixed the depending imdb::episodes() |
|
four more: fixed imdb::is_serial() and imdb::get_episode_details() plus imdb::comment() and imdb::comment_split() due to IMDB site changes |
| v2.1.5 (06.12.2012) |
|---|
|
fixed "undefined index" error in imdb::episodes() |
|
imdbsearch, imdbperson: site changes completely broke search |
|
imdbperson: added caching of search result page |
|
imdb::is_serial() and imdb::get_episode_details() were also broken again |
| v2.1.4 (20.09.2012) |
|---|
|
imdb::movietype() could no longer distinguish between TV Movie and TV Serie (site changes) |
|
imdb::is_serial() invalidated by site changes |
|
imdb::movieconnection() was broken due to site changes |
|
imdb_person::born() and imdb_person::died() suddenly missed day and month (site change; thanks to GeorgeFive for the fix!) |
|
test suite needed a minor update: our example "uncompleted" movie was completed meanwhile, so the test erraneously reported failure |
|
imdb::trailers() was incomplete. Thanks to george (ticket:286) it now should fetch more, and I also added the possibility to decide whether to restrict trailers to on-site ones |
|
imdb::plotoutline(): removing extra HTML tags from around the storyline |
| v2.1.3 (15.04.2012) |
|---|
|
some redirects have not been handled correctly (i.e. when IMDBID xxxxxxx was re-routed to yyyyyyy) |
|
imdb::is_serial() and imdb::get_episode_details() were broken due to site changes |
|
imdb::episodes() was broken due to site changes. ATTENTION: with this rewrite of the method, the outer array no longer starts at 0 but reflects the real season number (as often requested)! |
|
imdb::get_episode_details() - added "airdate" as requested by ticket:290 |
|
imdb::goofs() and imdb::crazy_credits() where broken due to site changes |
|
some adjustments to imdb::trivia - spoilers are now avoided by default. Pass TRUE as only argument to retrieve them separately. |
|
some enhancements to genre retrieval (thanks to George!) - now there will be more genres reported :) |
| v2.1.2 (19.01.2012) |
|---|
|
site changes broke the imdb class methods keywords(), seasons(), languages(), mpaa_reason(), goofs() |
|
site changes confused imdb::extReviews(), imdb::videosites() |
|
company info URLs were just the IMDB relative URL w/o protocol and site. Added the missing info |
|
if production spanned multiple years (xxxx-yyyy), movie type was setup wrongly ("type xxxx-") |
|
added method imdb::endyear() for cases where production spanned multiple years. So for "xxxx-yyyy" this returns "yyyy", while imdb::year() is adjusted to "xxxx". Otherwise, both return the same year. |
|
imdb_topcharts::getChartsBoxOffice() was broken. Fixed thanx to hints from razor. |
|
imdb::episodes() was completely broken, as the entire page design and structure changed (multiple pages now) |
|
added imdb::get_episode_details() to retrieve "uplink info" on episodes |
| v2.1.1 (19.12.2011) |
|---|
|
imdb: adding new budget class |
|
imdb nowplaying: added Top-10-Boxoffice |
|
movies: added method movietype to check wheter it is a movie, tv series, ... |
|
updated API reference |
|
is_serial() did always return FALSE (site-change) |
|
fixed a bunch of NOTICEs |
|
imdb::languages() had problems with some ISO settings - hopefully fixed now. |
|
sometimes imdb::genres() did not return all available genres |
| v2.1.0 (11.10.2011) |
|---|
|
movieposterdb class was broken due to site changes at movieposterdb.com; applied a quick-hack to fix it |
|
fixes due to site changes: imdb::rating, imdb::goofs |
|
complete rewrite of imdb_nowplaying class (location and structure of page had changed) |
|
some improvements to episode data (see http://projects.izzysoft.de/trac/imdbphp/ticket/255 for details) |
|
trailers on Moviepilot were broken due to changed URL |
|
pilot: fixed mainPictures() due to API changes |
|
pilot_person: fixed photos() due to API changes |
|
added basic check for pilot classes (corresponding to the IMDB checks) |
| v2.0.7 (21.08.2011) |
|---|
|
site changes again: fixed imdb_person:name (tnx to GeorgeFive and Qvist) |
|
same reason: imdb::votes(), imdb::country() and imdb::mpaa_reason() |
|
same reason, just a couple of days later: imdb rating |
|
imdb_person class: filmografies no longer listed movie names due to site changes |
|
imdb_person class: character names w/o id are listed again in filmografies |
|
IMDB started to sometimes pre- or postfix movie titles with "IMDb", becoming part of the title then |
|
imdb movie: plotoutline() did not work for unrated movies |
| v2.0.6 (08.07.2011) |
|---|
|
next IMDB site changes: ratings |
|
imdb_person filmographies: quarters in years, e.g. 1924/II, lead to empty year |
|
imdb::awards(): minor adjustments by Qvist |
|
imdb_movielist: fixed the listing methods (were all broken by IMDB site changes some time ago) |
|
movies (imdb+pilot): Added new method languages_detailed() to get detailed lang info (name, code and comment of languages used) |
|
imdb::episodes(): Result array now also includes season and episode (numbers) |
|
movie classes: Added new method aspect_ratio to obtain the screen aspect ratio |
| v2.0.5 (25.05.2011) |
|---|
|
IMDB-Link for person search in demo was wrong |
|
movie class: new method yearspan() for e.g. serials spanning multiple production years |
|
IMDB site changes broke actors filmographies, quotes, user comments, trivia, top250 |
|
adaption to imdb::storyline() as suggested by an anonymous user |
| v2.0.4 (28.12.2010) |
|---|
|
mdb_request.class.php ignored the IMDBPHP_CONFIG constant - fixed |
|
they did it again - so imdb::comment_split() was broken |
|
imdb photo stuff was broken |
|
runtimes and genres know have an additional source as fallback |
|
imdb::votes() was broken due to site changes |
|
imdb::seasons() always returned 1 (if there were seasons) for IMDB switched order |
|
cleaned up imdb::prodNotes() result |
|
cleaning up double-paragraphs in imdb::plotoutline() |
|
person.php linked back to imdb.php instead of movie.php |
| v2.0.3 (17.10.2010) |
|---|
|
some after-fixes for the last "big run" include imdb methods plotoutline(), runtime_all() |
|
same for imdb_person::name() |
|
imdb::plotoutline() was taken from storyline with the recent changes - fixed it up |
|
but since we had a working storyline, that method was added as storyline() |
|
imdb::mainPictures() was also broken by the last site changes - fixed |
|
mdb_request class did not inherit force_agent and trigger_referer values from mdb_config and thus issued PHP notices |
| v2.0.2 (10.10.2010) |
|---|
|
imdbsearch: some search results missed the year (if it was consisting of more than a plain year, e.g. something like "2001/II") |
|
imdb::prodNotes: lastUpdate was broken due to a site change |
|
movies: added imdb::locations() to retrieve details on the filming locations. pilot::locations() is just a wrapper to this requiring full fallback configured. |
|
mpaa_reason returned wrong text (tnx to dblume for report and fix!) |
|
added method is_serial() to the movie classes to determine whether the selected entry is part of a TV series |
|
again site changes at IMDB - fixed imdb::title_year(), imdb::thumbphoto(), and imdb::country() with code sent by moonface (tnx!) |
|
imdb::languages() (and thus imdb::language() as well) had been broken - fixed. |
|
added config option to set up the user agent "manually" |
|
if an actor had a too long movie list, no results where shown (there seems to be a limitation in preg_match) |
|
HUGE SITE CHANGES ON IMDB! Thanks to your contributions, we got many stuff fixed in the imdb class: thumbphoto, ratevote, genres, cast, alsoknown, runtime_all, comment, comment_split, tagline, plotoutline, keywords, mpaa, mpaa_hist, mpaa_reason, prodNotes |
|
Same reason broke the imdb_person class almost completely. |
| v2.0.1 (23.05.2010) |
|---|
|
imdb::awards() updated with code from its author (tnx, Qvist!) |
|
imdb::alsoknow() updated with patch from Qvist (tnx again!) |
|
imdb::tagline() and imdb::prodNotes() have been affected by some site changes |
|
fixing some minor typos |
|
imdb site changes broke imdb::releaseInfo() again |
|
movieposterdb: added method save_image to save an image to the configured photodir |
|
user_agent string now taken from browser (if possible) |
|
imdb::releaseInfo - country was suddenly including anchor tags due to site changes |
|
imdbsearch::results now has an additional optional parameter "series" (boolean, default TRUE) to indicate whether you want TV series included with the results |
| v2.0.0 (26.04.2010) |
|---|
|
imdb::releaseInfo() was also partly affected by the last IMDB site changes |
|
another IMDB site change broke imdb::alsoknow() |
|
imdb::top250() added as provided by abe (tnx!) |
|
due to a request, the constant mdbconfig::pilot_imdbfill was turned into a protected property (to be accessed via mdb_config::get_pilot_imdbfill and mdb_config::set_imdbfill). To enable the use of this, the new constant mdb_config::pilot_imdbfallback_enabled needs to be set to TRUE |
|
pilotsearch now honors the maxresults setting |
|
imdb::quotes() had some annoying "share this quote" added due to IMDB site changes |
|
added imdb::videosites() to retrieve the external trailer links again |
|
fixed the imdb_trailer class again (at least basically) |
|
pilot::trailers() and pilot::mainPictures() now deliver content from MoviePilot |
|
imdb::trailers() now also supports the "extended data" introduced by pilot::trailers(): Passing TRUE as parameter, instead of simply the URLs you get some additional data |
|
imdb_trailers: added support for Youtube URLs |
|
imdb::awards() has been added by Qvist (Tnx!) and tweaked by Izzy - the latter then also added pilot::awards() as wrapper to it (requires FULL_ACCESS) |
|
replaced mdb_config::pilot_imdbfallback_enabled by the global constant PILOT_IMDBFILL - which is defined in the default mdb_config.class.php only if it was not defined before |
|
IMDB changed the format of the AKAs today - so imdb::alsoknow() had to be fixed |
|
imdb::trivia() was broken due to site changes |
|
Makefile forgot to install index.html - and to uninstall pilot_person.class.php |
|
pilot: some minor adjustments concerning not-available pages |
| v1.9.9 (24.02.2010) |
|---|
|
imdb::movieconnection() - fixed FollowedBy and added Follows (tnx 2 Qvist) |
|
imdb::releaseInfo() now catches a few more cases (missing links) |
|
imdbXML class updated with a patch from the author |
|
imdb::movieconnections() - added more connections (tnx to Qvist) |
|
IMDB Search did not work with the localized sites due to new domains used |
|
imdb_person::filmograf did not catch characters if they had no link. Due to changes on the IMDB sites, it in fact did no longer catch any character... |
|
pilot movie class now correctly assigns the persons IMDBID |
|
imdb_person: born() and died() missed to return the year due to IMDB site changes |
|
imdb::seasons() returned wrong season count, and imdb::episodes() got messed up on airing dates |
|
pilot_person: class added |
|
imdb::releaseInfo() did not recognize entries without day - fixed. |
|
caching functionality added to the imdbsearch class |
|
pilotsearch class now stores found movies to cache |
|
*_person::movies_writer() added to get writers filmography |
|
imdb_person::born() and died() have been broken by IMDB changes again - fixed. Same for interviews(), articles(), pictorials() and magcovers(). |
|
imdb::color() has been broken by IMDB changes - also fixed. Same for imdb::sound(), mpaa() and mpaa_hist() |
| v1.9.8 (02.12.2009) |
|---|
|
started restructuring the classes and files to provide a core API for extensions |
|
first extension added: basic functionality for MoviePilot (http://www.moviepilot.de/), supporting some movie functionality only |
|
added the pilot_imdbfill class constant to define IMDB access level for complementary data from IMDB - i.e. information which is generally not provided by MoviePilot can be automatically retrieved from there. |
|
Updates for the APIDoc to reflect the bunch of changes |
|
imdb: minor fix for releaseInfo() |
|
pilot::officialSites now contains links to the corresponding pages on Amazon, IMDB, OMDB, and Zelluloid - if available |
|
imdb::language() was broken |
|
movie classes: added method creator() to retrieve the creator of series |
|
fixing a minor issue (array index) in imdbsearch::results() |
|
imdbsearch: added method reset() to clean up the search results array |
|
Pilot API: added pilotsearch class to search moviepilot for movies |
|
imdb::officialSites() returned a bunch of internal links not belonging here |
|
imdb::runtimes(), imdb::sountrack(), and mpaa_reason() was broken |
|
imdb_person::filmograf was broken due to an inserted onClick() on IMDB.COM |
|
imdb_person::movies_actress() was causing false alert in tests |
|
fixed the imdb::trailers() method. Note that IMDB now only lists their own videos, so the imdb_trailers class is (currently) useless. |
|
removed the imdb_trailers class from checks. As IMDB seems to no longer list external trailers, they will either fail. The code for the class will remain in the repository for now - one never knows... |
|
added new method imdb::keywords_all() (to retrieve the full list). For compatibility, pilot:keywords_all() has been added (aliases pilot::keywords()) |
|
added new class to retrieve images from movieposterdb.com |
|
imdb::plotoutline() did not cut surrounding DIV |
|
added config setting to optionally convert imdb movie information to UTF8 |
|
imdb::alsoknow() fixed (IMDB site changes) |
|
new class imdb_movielist added. First methods allow to retrieve a list of movies for a given year and country / year and language, as well as the 10 most popular movies by year. |
| v1.2.0 (04.10.2009) |
|---|
|
the test pages now support a "cron-mode" passing "cron=1" at the URL, i.e. plain text output, and only on failures (intended for automated tests) |
|
movie: fixed a small initialization issue (wrong type for keywords) |
|
movie: episodes() returned bool false (instead of empty array) if no episodes |
| v1.1.6 (29.09.2009) |
|---|
|
movie: added method to retrieve keywords (thanx to Balamir for the code!) |
|
movie: method cast() now also has the headshots included (thumbs and big) |
|
test/ directory has been missing in Makefile, and "make uninstall" left some files on the system |
|
added version and revision info to the classes (to be shown with the test page results) |
|
let the test page prepend "." and ".." to PHPs include_path so it runs out of the box |
| v1.1.5 (24.09.2009) |
|---|
|
hopefully fixed "invalid stream resource" on some network timeouts |
|
movie: added method to retrieve movie types (if specified) |
|
person: fixed a property missing in initialization |
|
movie: some methods were broken due to site changes. Fixed goofs(), trailers(), and trivia() |
|
some minor updates and changes |
| v1.1.4 (26.04.2009) |
|---|
|
movie: added method mpaa_hist() to include multiple ratings per country (if set) |
|
methods returning a data array now have the additional element "mon" holding the months number (while "month" still keeps the name as it was before) |
|
movie: added method prodNotes() method to get information about production in progress |
| v1.1.3 (26.03.2009) |
|---|
|
updated ApiDoc: the methods for retrieving details now use the "see also" tag to show which IMDB page the information is taken from |
|
movie: added method officialSites to retrieve the "official" URLs |
|
person: movies_archive() was broken due to site changes |
|
movie: releaseInfo() was messed up if one entry contained an incomplete date |
|
movie: director() returned nothing on series main page (thanx for the fix, moonface!) |
|
movie: added method mainPictures() to retrieve information on the pictures displayed on the main page (thanx to moonface for the initial code!) |
| v1.1.2 (26.02.2009) |
|---|
|
movie: added methods to retrieve company credits (production companies, distributors, special effects, other companies) |
|
movie: added method to retrieve the synopsis |
|
movie: added method to retrieve detailed parental guide info |
| v1.1.1 (26.01.2009) |
|---|
|
names::died() and names::born() did not return complete information (or even returned garbage in some cases) due to site changes |
|
names::spouse() and names::salary() returned garbage if the corresponding items were not available on the corresponding page |
|
trailer::getFlashCodeAllTrailers() was broken due to site changes on alltrailers.net |
|
collecting more details from the filmografie - all the remarks in parenthesis are now collected into the $addons array |
| v1.1.0 (12.01.2009) |
|---|
|
added the imdb_topcharts and imdb_nowplaying classes provided by banzap |
|
added imdb_trailers class (rewrite of code provided by banzap) |
|
added showtimes images locally (since they are somehow protected at the IMDB site) |
|
added name (imdb person) search |
| v1.0.8 (17.09.2008) |
|---|
|
fixing strange problem with filmographies sometimes missing some years in the middle (just fixed by an ugly work-around - still not sure what is broken) |
|
added the imdbXML class provided by Pablo Castorino (thanx Pablo!) |
|
fixed rating (due to IMDB site changes). Tnx to sourcer for the patch! |
|
allowing to define a different config file defined by the constant IMDBPHP_CONFIG |
|
episodes() have been broken due to site changes - fixed. |
| v1.0.7 (02.09.2008) |
|---|
|
imdb (movie) : added method releaseInfo() |
|
changed the way to get the big image - should now match better |
|
thumbnail was not returned when big image was missing, and big image did not always work correctly (image names changed?) |
|
tests can now be restricted to either movie only, name only, or all (default) |
|
imdb_person: added method to retrieve complete filmography (ignoring categories) |
|
imdb_person: added method for category "actress" |
| v1.0.6 (11.06.2008) |
|---|
|
preventing endless loops on connection problems (i.e. IMDB site offline) |
|
failed pages are no longer cached |
|
added the attribute lastServerResponse (3-digit codes according to RFC2616) to the imdb_base class. You can check this to find out why there have been no results - e.g. "404" means the page was not found. "000" usually means the server could not be contacted (site down, network problems, ...) |
|
test pages now allow to turn the cache on/off via the URL, applying "?cache=on" or "?cache=off" to it |
| v1.0.5 (03.06.2008) |
|---|
|
imdb_person: added methods to retrieve printed publications (pubprints()), biographical movies (pubmovies()), and "portrayed in" (pubportraits()) |
|
imdb_person: added method to retrieve interview list (interviews()) |
|
added overall results to the API test page |
|
imdb_person: added methods for articles, pictorials and magazine covers |
|
class tests updated - results should be more precise now |
|
fixed a problem with redirected pages (e.g. movie 0068709) |
|
fixed a problem with movies having no year set (but "????" instead) |
| v1.0.4 (26.05.2008) |
|---|
|
imdb_search: if maxresults was set to 0, no results have been returned (instead of unlimited) |
|
imdb: colors(), sounds() and episodes() have been broken due to IMDB site changes |
|
added set of test pages (for verification of all methods) |
|
default cache expiry increased from 600 (10min) to 3600 (1h) |
| v1.0.3 (20.05.2008) |
|---|
|
imdb_person: methods to retrieve birthname, nicknames, body height and spouses |
|
imdb: languages() method was broken due to IMDB site changes |
|
imdb_person: added method to retrieve mini bio |
|
imdb_person: added trivia(), quotes(), trademark() and salary() |
|
fixed a flaw in imdb::photo() (you could not retrieve the thumbnail and the bigger photo in the same run) |
| v1.0.2 (14.05.2008) |
|---|
|
new method mpaa_reason() reports why the movie was rated PG-* in the USA |
|
introduced new class imdb_person with methods to retrieve name, picture and filmographies of staff members |
|
imdb_person: New method born() to retrieve birthdate and place |
|
imdb_person: New method died() does the same for day of death (including cause, if available) |
|
links to staff members on the demo imdb.php page now pointing to the new imdb_person.php instead of the IMDB site to give insight into the new classes capabilities |
|
imdb: staff methods (director, cast, writing, producer, composer) did not return the persons IMDBID correctly (fixed: the "nm" prefix is now removed) |
| v1.0.1 (07.05.2008) |
|---|
|
code reorganization: Split up the imdb class to create class imdb_base |
|
the photo methods now support an optional parameter to retrieve a bigger (400x600) image instead of the thumbnail (100x140) |
|
rewrote alsoknow() to give even better/more matches |
|
in quotes(), references pointed to the local server instead of imdb site |
|
replaced hardcoded imdb sites in the demo page by the imdb site configured |
|
plotoutline() and tagline() were broken due to IMDB site changes |
|
some optimization of tagline() and plotoutline() |
|
rating() and votes() returned -1 when movie was not yet rated |
| v1.0.0 (04.05.2008) |
|---|
|
little fix for the MPAA retrieval (thanx to aaron pointing this out and providing the fix) |
|
added some more checks on valid image and cache directories to prevent PHP warnings/errors |
|
adding some more comments to the API documentation |
|
alsoknow() sometimes messed up some AKAs - hopefully fixed. |
|
some style changes to the demo pages |
|
method country() was broken (site changes?) - fixed. |
| v0.9.5 (03.04.2008) |
|---|
|
renamed imdb_config.php to imdb_config.class.php |
|
updated cache page layout |
|
changed Makefile: the classfiles now go to /usr/share/php which is the PHP include_path in the distributions php.ini - this means you no longer need to include these files with your apps RPM/DEB packages, but simply add the appropriate dependency (and include them directly via the include_path) |
|
imdb::alsoknow() messed things up on akas.imdb.com if AKA string contained only one term in parenthesis |
|
some W3C fixups to the demo pages |
|
cleanup of private class properties in class imdb (removing unreferenced ones, fixing initialization types, renaming some for clearer conventions) |
|
imdb::comment_split() added - returns the same comment as imdb::comment, but structured into an array so you can access the elements more easily |
|
imdb::plot_split() added similarly as pendant to imdb::plot() |
|
some more corrections/updates to the API reference |
| v0.9.4 (31.03.2008) |
|---|
|
getting rid of most (all?) of the PHP warnings/notices thrown |
|
tagline() method missed to exactly extract the tagline from the main page when the movie only contained one tagline |
|
fixed the season display in the demo page which sometimes was caught in an endless loop (the API itself was not affected) |
|
added a drop-down box to the demo search page to select whether to search for a movie or an episode by the given name |
|
updated some API references to give a better description |
|
moved the IMDB_Request class to its own file (separate from the imdb_config) |
|
searching akas.imdb.com did not reveal localized akas; if we find them, they are now listed along with their language |
|
improved duplicate check on movie search (thanx to Alex) |
| v0.9.3 (25.03.2008) |
|---|
|
fixed some incorrect calls to strrpos causing PHP error messages |
|
changing default imdb site from us.imdb.com to akas.imdb.com to also find localized AKAs |
|
new method movieconnection() returns connected movies (mid, name, year and maybe comment) |
|
new method extReviews() returns external reviews for this movie (url,desc) |
|
some code cleanup, optimization and comments |
|
minor optical enhancements to the demo pages |
|
imdbsearch class: added method search_episodes to restrict the search to either movies or episodes (before it was always restricted to movies) |
| v0.9.2 (13.03.2008) |
|---|
|
replacing strpos..substr loops in several functions by preg_match_all constructs |
|
runtime was broken for some movies (errors on the IMDB pages?) |
|
added soundtrack() method for guess what... |
|
setid() forgot to reset some credits - fixed. |
|
no more duplicate IMDB IDs are displayed anymore (thanx to Josh for pointing this out!) |
|
the result set limit ($maxresults) was not honored (again Josh - thanx!) |
| v0.9.1 (20.01.2008) |
|---|
|
year was screwed up when movie title contained "()" |
|
method rating() did not return any value on subsequent calls (only on the first) |
|
added support for retrieving trailer urls (method trailers()) |
|
added retrieval of 'Crazy Credits' (try with 'The Blues Brothers', they have some) |
|
added goof retrieval (again, you can see some with 'The Blues Brothers') |
|
some cleanup |
|
moved error message output into debug methods so they can be turned off (do so in imdb_config.php with the $this->debug setting) |
|
added method trivia() to retrieve the trivias |
| v0.9.0 (06.01.2008) |
|---|
|
link to SearchPlotWriters was pointing to wrong server |
|
added gzip support to cache (Jörg Eitemüller) |
|
added support for tv series (Jörg Eitemüller) - new methods: episodes() and seasons() |
|
fixed bug concerning genre parsing |
|
added support for retrieving the movie quotes - method: quotes() |
| v0.8.9 (07.10.2007) |
|---|
|
genre and country often contained a stupid additional field pointing to some "Imdb sections". Changed the code so they are no longer there. |
|
Link in "user comments" now points to the correct *site* (site info was missing so this always pointed to the local host) |
|
taglines() no longer returns the "update form" as latest tagline |
|
if the IMDB page contained no genre or country info, the concerning function caused an php error (strpos(): Offset not contained in string) |
|
cache purge caused errors when cache directory contained subdirs - fixed. |
| v0.8.8 (05.08.2007) |
|---|
|
applied patch sent by eremini to also support BMP images |
|
IMDB site changes again |
|
moved documentation files to doc/ dir and added APIDOC there |
| v0.8.7 (10.03.2007) |
|---|
|
made the maxresults (max movies to return on query) configurable |
|
made the search variants configurable |
|
added some more info for the APIDOC |
|
made the sample scripts proof for register_globals=off |
| v0.8.6 (23.02.2007) |
|---|
|
plot outline and selected user comment added (wtf) |
|
next changes on IMDB site: Fixed rating and cast (Izzy) |
|
alsoknow() sometimes throw an error (and ate some AKAs). Fixed (Izzy) |
|
sample page now gives some more details (Izzy) |
|
fixed the link to ratings generated in the votes() function (eremini) |
| v0.8.5 (22.01.2007) |
|---|
|
some adjustments due to changes on the IMDB sites |
|
a little re-structuring of the class files due to easier maintenance together with the code of phpVideoPro |
| v0.8.4 (13.08.2006) |
|---|
|
added automatical global cache purging |
|
IMDB site changes caused image retrieval to fail |
|
IMDB site changes caused actors retrieval to fail |
| v0.8.3 (08.04.2005) |
|---|
|
due to internal changes on the IMDB site the searches returned empty. Now it works again |
|
extended the results for some details, e.g. the also-known-as |
|
lots of detail changes I do not remember anymore (see history of phpVideoPro at http://www.qumran.org/homes/izzy/software/) |
| v0.8.2 (01.12.2004) |
|---|
|
Izzy took over project maintenance from sevec |
|
syntax on *.imdb.com changed - which made the entire class(es) unusable. Fixed that, so now it works again. |
| v0.8.1 (24.10.2003) |
|---|
|
added support for old browseremulator again. choose in imdb_config.php if you use PEAR. |
| v0.8 (22.10.2003) |
|---|
|
many things that i forgot writing and don't remember now... |
|
imdbsearch class method setsearch($name) was renamed to setsearchname($name). |
|
a imdbsearchurl($url) was added that can be used to find the imdb links on a url. (ie. to get the top 250 movies.) |
|
many functions that returned an empty string now return NULL. this will propably not affect many programs but it is cleaner for databases. haven't fixed all of them yet. |
|
PEARs HTTP_Request class is now used (see pear.php.net you need it now for the program to run.) |
|
the default is not to use or store cache now. |
| v0.7 (29.09.2003) |
|---|
|
some minor bug fixes. |
|
fixed the links in the test scripts. |
|
search can be multiple words |
|
search results now return an array of imdb objects. |
|
when there is only one result (imdb redirects to it) the right thing is happening. |
|
fixed it for the changes in imdb site. |
|
added a patch by Brian Ruth for ratings. |
| v0.6 (01.08.2003) |
|---|
|
taglines() function that returns all taglines. |
|
fixed a bug that made photo() to return the wrong url sometimes. |
|
added producers. |
|
changed runtime handling. now runtimes() returns a table with runtimes and runtime() returns just the first runtime and only the number. |
|
added photo_localurl() which returns a local url for the movie image (after saving it there first if it doesn't exist. |
|
alsoknow() splits the info more... |
| v0.5 (29.07.2003) |
|---|
|
Initial Release. |
|
|---|
|