Movie Listings

[MadTxn]

I wasn't sure were to put this, so mods, feel free to move this as you see fit.

As per the request/suggestion by fishboy, I modified my movie listings script to accept theaters in the URL.  So if someone wants to host it for people, it's now possible.

Usage:

http://someservername/somedirectory/listings_rss.php?theater1=theater1&zip1=zip1&theater2=theater2&zip2=zip2...

So, for instance, for my theaters, I use:

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listings_rss.php?theater1=Muvico&zip1=21076&theater2=UA Snowden Square&zip2=21046&theater3=CO Rio 14&zip3=20878&theater4=AMC Hoffmann Center 22&zip4=22314&theater5=AMC Columbia 14&zip5=21044


I only tested it with the theaters I know, so please let me know if you get any weird behavior.

[joelw135]

What do I have to do to change it to receive one theather only? the name of the Theather is Regal Commerce Center 18 zip 08824

[Eitel]

What do I have to do to change it to receive one theather only?

Just call it like this:

http://someservername/somedirectory/listings_rss.php?theater1=Theater Name&zip1=Theater zip

[MadTxn]

Just use one theater name and zip code.

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listings_rss.php?theater1=Your theater here&zip1=theater zip here


The script is dynamic so it *should* be able to accept any number of theaters.

[joelw135]

Do I change any thing in the script?

[MadTxn]

Nope.  That's the beauty of it.

[fishboy]

In case anyone is interested, here is my PHP Script to get stock information from Yahoo.  It displays the stock name, current price, and change as one rss entry (i.e. ^DJI 10463.48 +9.56).

The format to use this script is:

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http://someservername/somedirectory/YahooStocks-rss.php?symbols=symbol1+symbol2+symbol3...
For example:

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http://someservername/somedirectory/YahooStocks-rss.php?symbols=^dji+^ixic+^gspc+aivsx
You can enter as many symbols as you want.  Goto http://finance.yahoo.com to look up symbols for a particular stock.

EDIT:  FYI, the file size is only 936 B (.936 KB), not 936 KB as incorretly reported by the board.

[joelw135]

When I try to get the movie listing nothing comes up. My provider does not allow numeric IP.  When I try it in IE I get this error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: file_get_contents() in /home/virtual/site66/fst/home/jwaxman/public_html/listings_rss.php on line 68

And this is the important part of the rss:

listings_rss.php?theater1=Loews New Brunswick&zip1=08824

[fishboy]

joelw135,

I don't know if this is causing your problem, but I noticed that in your address:

listings_rss.php?theater1=Loews New Brunswick&zip2=08824

zip2 should be zip1, the next theater would be theater2=...&zip2=... etc.

Oh, and MadTxn, nice job!  

[joelw135]

I just copied it wrong, it is correct in script., and I changed it in above post.

[fishboy]

FYI.  I tried your parameters using IE with my server and it worked fine for me (although I did get a weird error the first time).  Most likely is a problem with the server that is running the script, not the script itself.

[joelw135]

Ok I got to figure out what the problem is, really want this to work.

[fishboy]

What version of PHP Server is your server running? I am using PHP 4.3.4.

[joelw135]

Really don't know, it is on my sons, which is remote.

[joelw135]

I guess I will have to wait until someone is willing to host it.