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| Registered: May 30, 2007 | | Posts: 3 |
| | Posted: | | | | I would like to have the following added to each DVD profile
- a link to the imdb detail page of the movie
- ability to display imdb user rating (and # of votes)
- ability to display imdb top 250 position
- ability to filter on imdb top 250 movie
- ability to sort on imdb user rating and display missing movies
- ability to automatically add missing movies from the imdb top 250 movies to the wish list
A "cheap" alternative would be to add some user defined fields to the database, so that the user can set up whatever additional info he/she wants. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | Fish:
Based on IMDb Terms of Service, that simply isn't going to happen. Invelos would have tp pay a licensing fee to IMDb, and that would drive up the cost of the program.
Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here
Billy Video |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 793 |
| | Posted: | | | | Fishlake: You can already do your first request, with an HTML Window. Can't find the thread about IMDb, but just follow the intructions for the thread about Wikipedia here to create and HTML Window and show it, and instead of pasting in the code from that thread, paste this code: Quote:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript">
<!--
<DP NAME="HEADER_VARS" Language="JavaScript" Comments="True" IncludeCast="False" IncludeCrew="False">
/**************************************************/
var imdbStart = "";
var imdbEnd = "";
var imdbCode = "";
var imdbLink = "";
var imdbFound = false;
var imdbURL = "http://www.imdb.com/title/";
// Open IMDb page for the profile
function imdb() {
imdbStart = DP_Notes.toLowerCase().indexOf("\<imdb") + 6;
if (imdbStart>5) {
if (DP_Notes.toLowerCase().indexOf("\<\/imdb\>", imdbStart)>1) {
imdbEnd = DP_Notes.toLowerCase().indexOf("\<\/imdb\>", imdbStart);
alert("This profile still uses the old style code.");
} else {
imdbEnd = DP_Notes.toLowerCase().indexOf("\/\>", imdbStart);
}
imdbCode = DP_Notes.slice(imdbStart, imdbEnd);
imdbLink = (imdbURL + imdbCode);
imdbFound = true;
window.location.href = imdbLink;
} else {
document.write("There is no IMDb code in the notes.");
}
}
//-->
</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>
<BODY onload="imdb();">
</BODY>
</HTML>
And then, in the notes section of the profiles you want to see the IMDb page for, just add a line that says <imdb=tt0000001 /> Change the tt0000001 for the actual code, for example: Terminator 2 on IMDb, the link it http://www.imdb.com/title/ tt0103064/ so the IMDb code is tt0103064 Also, if you are handy with HTML, you can probably add the other data you want to the window too. | | | | Last edited: by RossRoy |
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 |  Posts: 374 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting skipnet50: Quote:
Fish:
Based on IMDb Terms of Service, that simply isn't going to happen. Invelos would have tp pay a licensing fee to IMDb, and that would drive up the cost of the program.
Skip Skip, I don't see why linking to IMDb should be a problem, it is already there in the program. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 13,203 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting sugarjoe: Quote:
Quoting skipnet50:
Quote:
Fish:
Based on IMDb Terms of Service, that simply isn't going to happen. Invelos would have tp pay a licensing fee to IMDb, and that would drive up the cost of the program.
Skip
Skip, I don't see why linking to IMDb should be a problem, it is already there in the program. Except it doesn't sound like he wants a link. He wants all that IMDb data intigrated into Profiler...at least that is how I understood the request. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
- Citizen G'Kar |
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| Registered: May 10, 2007 | | Posts: 418 |
| | Posted: | | | | RossRoy
only that sucks about the IMDB window is the popup |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 793 |
| | Posted: | | | | Can't do anything about the popup. I know, it annoys me too, but blame Microsoft for that with their crappy popup blocker. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 467 |
| | Posted: | | | | I think he should have read a little bit in the forum before coming with such request. Oh well, the IMDb request will come in occasionally (Not sure if that's the right word). Maybe a sticky in the contribution forum or general discussion forum would have done the trick. With a name like this. Don't ask about IMDb or other third database integration. Just a thought. I am not good in English, so maybe one of you English speaking friends can come up with something.
(This is not an insulting post. I have been accused to be insulting, so I must continue to point out that I am not dealing out insults.) | | | | Last edited: by pompel9 |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | Pompel: A sticky won't help...trust me.  Now of course a search on IMDb would have provided the answer too. But you know how newbs are.  Skip P.S. A search on IMDb in just THIS forum gets 105 hits.  | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here
Billy Video | | | | Last edited: by Winston Smith |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 273 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting RossRoy: Quote:
Can't do anything about the popup. I know, it annoys me too, but blame Microsoft for that with their crappy popup blocker. ...or blame IMDb for adding popups to their site  |
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| Registered: May 10, 2007 | | Posts: 418 |
| | Posted: | | | | I killed the imdb window cause I had ads on top of words etc it just made html windows in DVDP look crappy.
Wikipedia code rocks. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 793 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Randall_Lind: Quote:
I killed the imdb window cause I had ads on top of words etc it just made html windows in DVDP look crappy.
Wikipedia code rocks. THat's the difference between a clean site that keeps its pages clean and informative, against a site that tries to generate as much profit as possible, even if that means losing usability. Guess which is which? |
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