#66 IMDB movie info search problem

[Jaime Leon]

Hi. I have been using VideoDB for a couple of years to manage my personal movie collection. I like it very much and find it very useful and easy to use. I updated last month to the newest version. I would like to report two bugs.

Bug 1
When using the imdb movie search function, when entering a new movie, the list comes out with the movie options found. However, some of the links that come out of the search look like the following:

# ','', 'imdb'));" title="add ID and close Window">

which looks to me like program code.

Bug 2
When entering a new movie, after selecting a movie from the imdb search movie window, the imdb movie code is placed in the movie database. After you save this movie, the information is extracted from imdb and shown. The cast info appears to be corrupted. The actors names do not show. It appears to be a problem with extracting the information from imdb. Old entries from the previous version of videodb are shown OK.

Thanks
Jaime

[Victor La]

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I think the current release doesn't have the updated imdb.php. Try replacing your current imdb.php with the one in CVS: http://videodb.cvs.sourceforge.net/\*checkout*/videodb/videodb/engines/imdb.php?revision=1.45

[Cornel POPA]

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I have upgraded also to version 3.0.0b1. Everything works fine except the IMDB movie search. When I try to add a new title in database, after entering movie title when I click on search result is a long list of dots without movie names. And even if I enter manually imdb ID of the movie, it does not take out info from imdb site. I have tried to replace imdb.php with the one suggested in this topic, with the same result.

Here is the part of source when I search movie:

<b>Select the matching title:</b>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="javascript:void(returnData('','','', 'imdb'));" title="add ID and close Window"></a>
<br class="clear" />
</li>
<li>
<a href="javascript:void(returnData('','','', 'imdb'));" title="add ID and close Window"></a>

<br class="clear" />
</li>
<li>
<a href="javascript:void(returnData('','','', 'imdb'));" title="add ID and close Window"></a>
<br class="clear" />
</li>
<li>
<a href="javascript:void(returnData('','','', 'imdb'));" title="add ID and close Window"></a>
<br class="clear" />
</li>
<li>
<a href="javascript:void(returnData('','','', 'imdb'));" title="add ID and close Window"></a>
<br class="clear" />
</li>......

[andig]

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Could you verify if these problems are present in the current CVS version?? Seems you're not running the latest code.

[andig]

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Soryy- just saw you tested already. Which movie/tempalte does that happen for? Only in the lookup windows or also when running in the inline search from the elegant template?

Thanks,
Andi

[Cornel POPA]

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Just to be clear: I have been using version 2.5.0 until yesterday and it worked fine. After upgrading to version 3.0.0b1 problems with imdb search appeared.

I just checked: the problem persist no matter of template or movie search. In the inline search from the elegant template I receive a long drop down box with its empty.

How can I assist you to solve this problem?

[andig]

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Cannot reproduce. Closing WFM. If you want please send FTP access to your site to cpuidle@gmx.de for debugging.

[andig]

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Please verify if your iconv library can convert iso-8859-1 to utf-8 using the command line. This problem appears to be outside of php scope in your basic os install.