Retrieve IMDB rating

[RAINMAN]

I am writing a small script for a site that will take a movie name and retrieve the IMDB rating for that movie.

I am using the IMDB search to find the movie. This works fine.

$remote_url = "/find?q=" . $moviename;

IMDB works where if the movie title is original enough it will redirect you to the movies page and I am reading this redirect and going to the page fine with the following script.

	if (preg_match('/(Location:)(.*)/', $html)) {
		preg_match('/(Location:)(.*)/', $html, $array);
		$remote_url = $array[2];

If there is no automatic redirect I get a page of search results.

 else {
		preg_match('/<a href=\"\/title\/(.*)\/\">/i',$html,$array);

		$remote_url = "http://www.imdb.com/title/" . $array[1] . "/";
	}

I can use the above code to search for the first result.

Using Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End as an example I am trying to find this code and retrieve only "tt0449088". This works fine so far.

1.</td><td valign="top"><img src="/images/b.gif" width="1" height="6"><br><a href="/title/tt0449088/">Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End</a> (2007)<br>

The problem arises only on some movies where it finds different code.

<h2>Popular Results</h2> <p><b>Popular Titles</b> (Displaying 1 Result)<table><tr> <td valign="top"><a href="/title/tt1077258/" onClick="(new Image()).src='/rg/photo-find/title-tiny/images/b.gif?link=/title/tt1077258/';"><img src="https://ia.imdb.com/media/imdb/01/I/52/97/53/10t.jpg" width="23" height="32" border="0"></a> </td><td align="right" valign="top"><img src="/images/b.gif" width="1" height="6"><br>1.</td><td valign="top"><img src="/images/b.gif" width="1" height="6"><br><a href="/title/tt1077258/">Planet Terror</a> (2007)</td></tr></table> </p>

It will then return the tt1077258 plus all the on click and stuff like that. I have tried changing the preg_match so many times but I don't know how to use it very well so its more of a trial and error.

Any help would be much appreciated. or a better way of extracting the TT###### from the first result in the search...

Reference URLs:

http://imdb.com/find?s=all&q=Pirates.o...amp;x=0&y=0

http://imdb.com/find?s=all&q=Planet.Te...amp;x=0&y=0

Thanks,

--RAINMAN

[RAINMAN]

I figured it.

<a href=\"\/title\/([^\/]*)\/([^>]*)>([^<]*)<\/a> \(([0-9]*)\)([^\<]*)

[Kudos Veteran]

There's a few classes available that do this for you, the advantage being, when IMDB changes something that breaks your code, you just download their updated class.