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imdb::releaseInfo() was also partly affected by the last IMDB site changes |
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another IMDB site change broke imdb::alsoknow() |
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imdb::quotes() had some annoying "share this quote" added due to IMDB site changes |
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more fixes due to IMDB site changes |
| v1.2.4 (24.10.2010) | |
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imdb::releaseInfo() did not recognize entries without day - fixed. |
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imdb_person::born() and died() have been broken by IMDB changes again - fixed. Same for interviews(), articles(), pictorials() and magcovers() |
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imdb::color() has been broken by IMDB changes - also fixed. Same for imdb:sound(), mpaa() and mpaa_hist() |
| v1.2.3 (14.02.2010) | |
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imdb::plotoutline() did not cut surrounding DIV (backport from trunk) |
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imdb::alsoknow() fixed (IMDB site changes - backport from trunk) |
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imdb::movieconnection() - fixed FollowedBy and added Follows (tnx 2 Qvist) |
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imdb::releaseInfo() now catches a few more cases (missing links) |
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IMDB Search did not work with the localized sites due to new domains used |
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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... |
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imdb_person: born() and died() missed to return the year due to IMDB site changes |
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imdb::seasons() returned wrong season count, and imdb::episodes() got messed up on airing dates |
| v1.2.2 (26.11.2009) | |
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fixed an backport error (PHP5 style declaration) |
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fixed runtimes() again (the IMDB guys are playing with us), and fixed mpaa_reason (both backports from trunk) |
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imdb_person::filmograf() was broken due to an inserted onClick() on IMDB.COM (backport from trunk) |
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fixed the imdb::trailers() method. Note that IMDB now only lists their own videos, so the imdb_trailers class is (currently) useless. |
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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... |
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added new method imdb::keywords_all() (to retrieve the full list) |
| v1.2.1 (15.11.2009) | |
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version info was not updated in the base class |
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imdb: minor fix for releaseInfo() |
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imdb::language() was broken |
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imdb::creator() method backported from trunk |
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minor fix to imdbsearch class backported |
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imdbsearch: added method reset() to clean up the search results array (backported from trunk@r257) |
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imdb::officialSites() returned a bunch of internal links not belonging here (backported fix from trunk@r260) |
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imdb::runtimes() and imdb::sountrack() was broken (backported fix from trunk@r262) |
| v1.2.0 (04.10.2009) | |
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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) |
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movie: fixed a small initialization issue (wrong type for keywords) |
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movie: episodes() returned bool false (instead of empty array) if no episodes |
| v1.1.6 (29.09.2009) | |
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movie: added method to retrieve keywords (thanx to Balamir for the code!) |
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movie: method cast() now also has the headshots included (thumbs and big) |
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test/ directory has been missing in Makefile, and "make uninstall" left some files on the system |
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added version and revision info to the classes (to be shown with the test page results) |
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let the test page prepend "." and ".." to PHPs include_path so it runs out of the box |
| v1.1.5 (24.09.2009) | |
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hopefully fixed "invalid stream resource" on some network timeouts |
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movie: added method to retrieve movie types (if specified) |
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person: fixed a property missing in initialization |
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movie: some methods were broken due to site changes. Fixed goofs(), trailers(), and trivia() |
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some minor updates and changes |
| v1.1.4 (26.04.2009) | |
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movie: added method mpaa_hist() to include multiple ratings per country (if set) |
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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) |
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movie: added method prodNotes() method to get information about production in progress |
| v1.1.3 (26.03.2009) | |
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updated ApiDoc: the methods for retrieving details now use the "see also" tag to show which IMDB page the information is taken from |
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movie: added method officialSites to retrieve the "official" URLs |
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person: movies_archive() was broken due to site changes |
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movie: releaseInfo() was messed up if one entry contained an incomplete date |
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movie: director() returned nothing on series main page (thanx for the fix, moonface!) |
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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) | |
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movie: added methods to retrieve company credits (production companies, distributors, special effects, other companies) |
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movie: added method to retrieve the synopsis |
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movie: added method to retrieve detailed parental guide info |
| v1.1.1 (26.01.2009) | |
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names::died() and names::born() did not return complete information (or even returned garbage in some cases) due to site changes |
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names::spouse() and names::salary() returned garbage if the corresponding items were not available on the corresponding page |
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trailer::getFlashCodeAllTrailers() was broken due to site changes on alltrailers.net |
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collecting more details from the filmografie - all the remarks in parenthesis are now collected into the $addons array |
| v1.1.0 (12.01.2009) | |
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added the imdb_topcharts and imdb_nowplaying classes provided by banzap |
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added imdb_trailers class (rewrite of code provided by banzap) |
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added showtimes images locally (since they are somehow protected at the IMDB site) |
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added name (imdb person) search |
| v1.0.8 (17.09.2008) | |
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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) |
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added the imdbXML class provided by Pablo Castorino (thanx Pablo!) |
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fixed rating (due to IMDB site changes). Tnx to sourcer for the patch! |
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allowing to define a different config file defined by the constant IMDBPHP_CONFIG |
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episodes() have been broken due to site changes - fixed. |
| v1.0.7 (02.09.2008) | |
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imdb (movie) : added method releaseInfo() |
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changed the way to get the big image - should now match better |
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thumbnail was not returned when big image was missing, and big image did not always work correctly (image names changed?) |
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tests can now be restricted to either movie only, name only, or all (default) |
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imdb_person: added method to retrieve complete filmography (ignoring categories) |
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imdb_person: added method for category "actress" |
| v1.0.6 (11.06.2008) | |
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preventing endless loops on connection problems (i.e. IMDB site offline) |
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failed pages are no longer cached |
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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, ...) |
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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) | |
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imdb_person: added methods to retrieve printed publications (pubprints()), biographical movies (pubmovies()), and "portrayed in" (pubportraits()) |
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imdb_person: added method to retrieve interview list (interviews()) |
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added overall results to the API test page |
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imdb_person: added methods for articles, pictorials and magazine covers |
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class tests updated - results should be more precise now |
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fixed a problem with redirected pages (e.g. movie 0068709) |
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fixed a problem with movies having no year set (but "????" instead) |
| v1.0.4 (26.05.2008) | |
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imdb_search: if maxresults was set to 0, no results have been returned (instead of unlimited) |
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imdb: colors(), sounds() and episodes() have been broken due to IMDB site changes |
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added set of test pages (for verification of all methods) |
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default cache expiry increased from 600 (10min) to 3600 (1h) |
| v1.0.3 (20.05.2008) | |
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imdb_person: methods to retrieve birthname, nicknames, body height and spouses |
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imdb: languages() method was broken due to IMDB site changes |
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imdb_person: added method to retrieve mini bio |
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imdb_person: added trivia(), quotes(), trademark() and salary() |
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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) | |
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new method mpaa_reason() reports why the movie was rated PG-* in the USA |
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introduced new class imdb_person with methods to retrieve name, picture and filmographies of staff members |
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imdb_person: New method born() to retrieve birthdate and place |
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imdb_person: New method died() does the same for day of death (including cause, if available) |
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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 |
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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) | |
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code reorganization: Split up the imdb class to create class imdb_base |
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the photo methods now support an optional parameter to retrieve a bigger (400x600) image instead of the thumbnail (100x140) |
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rewrote alsoknow() to give even better/more matches |
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in quotes(), references pointed to the local server instead of imdb site |
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replaced hardcoded imdb sites in the demo page by the imdb site configured |
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plotoutline() and tagline() were broken due to IMDB site changes |
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some optimization of tagline() and plotoutline() |
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rating() and votes() returned -1 when movie was not yet rated |
| v1.0.0 (04.05.2008) | |
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little fix for the MPAA retrieval (thanx to aaron pointing this out and providing the fix) |
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added some more checks on valid image and cache directories to prevent PHP warnings/errors |
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adding some more comments to the API documentation |
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alsoknow() sometimes messed up some AKAs - hopefully fixed. |
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some style changes to the demo pages |
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method country() was broken (site changes?) - fixed. |
| v0.9.5 (03.04.2008) | |
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renamed imdb_config.php to imdb_config.class.php |
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updated cache page layout |
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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) |
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imdb::alsoknow() messed things up on akas.imdb.com if AKA string contained only one term in parenthesis |
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some W3C fixups to the demo pages |
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cleanup of private class properties in class imdb (removing unreferenced ones, fixing initialization types, renaming some for clearer conventions) |
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imdb::comment_split() added - returns the same comment as imdb::comment, but structured into an array so you can access the elements more easily |
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imdb::plot_split() added similarly as pendant to imdb::plot() |
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some more corrections/updates to the API reference |
| v0.9.4 (31.03.2008) | |
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getting rid of most (all?) of the PHP warnings/notices thrown |
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tagline() method missed to exactly extract the tagline from the main page when the movie only contained one tagline |
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fixed the season display in the demo page which sometimes was caught in an endless loop (the API itself was not affected) |
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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 |
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updated some API references to give a better description |
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moved the IMDB_Request class to its own file (separate from the imdb_config) |
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searching akas.imdb.com did not reveal localized akas; if we find them, they are now listed along with their language |
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improved duplicate check on movie search (thanx to Alex) |
| v0.9.3 (25.03.2008) | |
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fixed some incorrect calls to strrpos causing PHP error messages |
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changing default imdb site from us.imdb.com to akas.imdb.com to also find localized AKAs |
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new method movieconnection() returns connected movies (mid, name, year and maybe comment) |
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new method extReviews() returns external reviews for this movie (url,desc) |
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some code cleanup, optimization and comments |
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minor optical enhancements to the demo pages |
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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) | |
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replacing strpos..substr loops in several functions by preg_match_all constructs |
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runtime was broken for some movies (errors on the IMDB pages?) |
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added soundtrack() method for guess what... |
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setid() forgot to reset some credits - fixed. |
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no more duplicate IMDB IDs are displayed anymore (thanx to Josh for pointing this out!) |
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the result set limit ($maxresults) was not honored (again Josh - thanx!) |
| v0.9.1 (20.01.2008) | |
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year was screwed up when movie title contained "()" |
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method rating() did not return any value on subsequent calls (only on the first) |
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added support for retrieving trailer urls (method trailers()) |
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added retrieval of 'Crazy Credits' (try with 'The Blues Brothers', they have some) |
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added goof retrieval (again, you can see some with 'The Blues Brothers') |
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some cleanup |
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moved error message output into debug methods so they can be turned off (do so in imdb_config.php with the $this->debug setting) |
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added method trivia() to retrieve the trivias |
| v0.9.0 (06.01.2008) | |
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link to SearchPlotWriters was pointing to wrong server |
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added gzip support to cache (Jörg Eitemüller) |
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added support for tv series (Jörg Eitemüller) - new methods: episodes() and seasons() |
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fixed bug concerning genre parsing |
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added support for retrieving the movie quotes - method: quotes() |
| v0.8.9 (07.10.2007) | |
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genre and country often contained a stupid additional field pointing to some "Imdb sections". Changed the code so they are no longer there. |
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Link in "user comments" now points to the correct *site* (site info was missing so this always pointed to the local host) |
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taglines() no longer returns the "update form" as latest tagline |
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if the IMDB page contained no genre or country info, the concerning function caused an php error (strpos(): Offset not contained in string) |
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cache purge caused errors when cache directory contained subdirs - fixed. |
| v0.8.8 (05.08.2007) | |
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applied patch sent by eremini to also support BMP images |
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IMDB site changes again |
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moved documentation files to doc/ dir and added APIDOC there |
| v0.8.7 (10.03.2007) | |
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made the maxresults (max movies to return on query) configurable |
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made the search variants configurable |
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added some more info for the APIDOC |
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made the sample scripts proof for register_globals=off |
| v0.8.6 (23.02.2007) | |
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plot outline and selected user comment added (wtf) |
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next changes on IMDB site: Fixed rating and cast (Izzy) |
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alsoknow() sometimes throw an error (and ate some AKAs). Fixed (Izzy) |
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sample page now gives some more details (Izzy) |
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fixed the link to ratings generated in the votes() function (eremini) |
| v0.8.5 (22.01.2007) |
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some adjustments due to changes on the IMDB sites |
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a little re-structuring of the class files due to easier maintenance together with the code of phpVideoPro |
| v0.8.4 (13.08.2006) |
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added automatical global cache purging |
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IMDB site changes caused image retrieval to fail |
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IMDB site changes caused actors retrieval to fail |
| v0.8.3 (08.04.2005) |
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due to internal changes on the IMDB site the searches returned empty. Now it works again |
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extended the results for some details, e.g. the also-known-as |
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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) |
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Izzy took over project maintenance from sevec |
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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) |
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added support for old browseremulator again. choose in imdb_config.php if you use PEAR. |
| v0.8 (22.10.2003) |
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many things that i forgot writing and don't remember now... |
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imdbsearch class method setsearch($name) was renamed to setsearchname($name). |
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a imdbsearchurl($url) was added that can be used to find the imdb links on a url. (ie. to get the top 250 movies.) |
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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. |
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PEARs HTTP_Request class is now used (see pear.php.net you need it now for the program to run.) |
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the default is not to use or store cache now. |
| v0.7 (29.09.2003) |
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some minor bug fixes. |
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fixed the links in the test scripts. |
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search can be multiple words |
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search results now return an array of imdb objects. |
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when there is only one result (imdb redirects to it) the right thing is happening. |
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fixed it for the changes in imdb site. |
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added a patch by Brian Ruth for ratings. |
| v0.6 (01.08.2003) |
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taglines() function that returns all taglines. |
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fixed a bug that made photo() to return the wrong url sometimes. |
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added producers. |
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changed runtime handling. now runtimes() returns a table with runtimes and runtime() returns just the first runtime and only the number. |
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added photo_localurl() which returns a local url for the movie image (after saving it there first if it doesn't exist. |
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alsoknow() splits the info more... |
| v0.5 (29.07.2003) |
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Initial Release. |
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