What’s that ?
IMDb link transformer aims to ease the movies information search process, for both the blog writer and the blog reader. All movies’s names which are tagged between
<!--imdb-->nameMovie<!--/imdb-->
are automatically turned into an url. This url can open a new window (a popup) containing many useful data related to the movie itself. IMDb link transformer transforms all the words you tagged into links to an informative windows. It means one can view the filmmaker, the casting or the goofs that www.imdb.com website includes with one click; it can show either the director or the movie related data (biography, filmography, miscellaneous related to the director; casting, goofs, AKA titles, crew and many others related to the movie).
Example: 2001, a space odyssey (click the link, and browse). Or you can alternatively have a glance to this movie page reviews. The popup contains a (few) words in French, because this blog currently uses that language. But please note Imdb link transformer supports already English and Portuguese; if you want to translate the plugin into your language, use the comment field below or drop me a mail sorry, I hate spam).
This plugin also add displays buttons in writing interfaces (both HTML and Visual).
You can also activate the imdb link transformer widget, which will display information parsed from IMDb straight on your sidebar (or where is attached your widget). After activating the widget, every time you will add the key “imdb-movie-widget” to the custom field to your message *and* the name of the movie to “value”, the information related to selected movie will be displayed on the sidebar.
In the same way, this plugin can display many movie’s related data inside a post, when putting a movie name in [ imdblt][ /imdblt] tags (remove spaces). No widget needed, and movie’s data can be displayed anywhere inside posts.
IMDb link transformer is a great tool to inform yourself and to provide many trivias on your post! It is very versatile and multi-functional. Blogger can display data in many ways (popup, widget, straight into the post), and can fine-tune data with admin options and css.
Download
How to install
required
1. Unzip and put the “imdb-link-transformer” folder into your plugin folder (usually wp-content/plugins/)
2. Activate the plugin (using the settings tab from admin board)
3. Configure the plugin (settings admin board). Values should be automatically completed, but check them anyway.
4. Create the cache directories (cache and photo directories). The plugin is preconfigured to work with “/wp-content/cache/imdb” and “/wp-content/cache/imdb/images”. Deactivate the cache (advanced – cache management section) otherwise, if you don’t want to use the cache. Either you use or you don’t, the plugin will work – but be aware that without cache, process will take a long time, each time…
5. Give read & write permissions to these two cache directories (see 4).
basic options
0. There is three ways to use IMDb link transformer: popup link creator, widget and inside a post. Each option can be combined with any other, as blogger wants; there is no limitation, feel you free to use all three at once!
1. When writing your post, add either <!–imdb–>nameMovie<!–/imdb–> tags to your movie’s name (if you disabled visual editor, and that you have HTML interface) or click on imdb link transformer’s button after selecting the movie’s name. As a result of this, a link which will open a popup will be created. The popup contains many data and is extensively browsable.
2. Widget can be activated, and used in a way where informations will be displayed inside it. Once widget is activated, look closely to select what you want to display on your sidebar: options are available on imdb admin settings tab. Also add “imdb-movie-widget” or “imdb-movie-widget-bymid” to your message’s custom field; the value you will add will be the movie that will be displayed inside the widget. Check faqs.
3. (new) The plugin can now show IMDb data inside a post. When writing your post, put the movie name inside tags [ imdblt][ /imdblt] (which gives ie [ imdblt]Fight club[ /imdblt]). No third party plugin needed anymore.
You may also edit the “/* —- imdbincluded */” part from imdb.css to customize layout according your taste.
Fine tuning:
1. The files inc/imdb-movie.inc.php, popup.php, imdb_movie.php and imdb_person.php could be modified to match your theme; check also /css/imdb.css if you want to customize default theme.
2. A (front) page can be created to include all you movies’ related messages. Have a look there : personal critics page.
3. If your language is not included… translate .po file (inside /lang directory) to yours! And send it to me, of course, thus many people would enjoy IMDb in a new language.
Advanced:
1. If you are not interested in having links opening popup windows but look only for informations displayed (both in widget and posts), look for “widget options / Remove popup links?” and switch the option to “yes”. There will be no more links opening a popup (both in widget and posts).
Update
1. Remove the old IMDb link transformer and install the new. Or use the automated update from wordpress.
2. Go to the IMDb link transformer settings, and click on “reset”.
Faq
How to add the imdb widget ?
First, go to “design”, “widget”, add “imdb widget” to a sidbar (click on “add”), and change the box’s title (in case you don’t want to have the box named “IMDb data”).
Secondly, open an old post (or write a new) and add the key “imdb-movie-widget” to the custom field of your message *and* the name of the movie you want to display to “value”. IMDb link transformer will automatically display into the widget the movie selected.
Another possibility : add to your post the key “imdb-movie-widget-bymid” into the custom field from your message *and* the IMDb ID for the movie you want to be displayed on your sidebar to “value”. Instead of looking for a name, IMDb link transformer would directly display the movie you want to display. Very handy when your movie’s name doesn’t work as it should (if there are many movies with the same name, the wrong movie is displayed, etc). To get the movie’s IMDb id, search for a title on IMDb website, look at the adress bar for a “ttXXXXX” section, keep only the number part (XXXXX) and add result to the “value” meta field. However, in this specific case, do not mix with an “imdb-movie-widget” key neither add several “imdb-movie-widget-bymid” fields. Only the first one will be displayed.
How to display movie data inside my message?
When writing your post, put the movie name inside tags [ imdblt][ /imdblt] (remove spaces).
I don’t want to have links to a popup window!
Look for “imdb settings / widget options / Remove popup links?” and switch the option to “yes”. No links anymore, for both widget and inside a post.
Can I suggest a feature/report a bug regarding the plugin?
Of course, let a message right here.
How to support ?
Under the GPL licence, “IMDb link transformer” is based on the classes coming from imdbphp project. However, a huge customization work has been required to implement it to wordpress; many new features have been developed as well. If you feel somewhat generous, please click paypal image (from plugin settings).
Known issues
1. Sometimes, movie’s picture is not displayed. Still investing to find why. When turning “debug mode” to on, an error “*photoerror* http:[...] Content Type is ‘text/html’ is displayed. **Workaround:** Load the page using… Internet explorer. Only once, hopefully.
2. When the imdb widget is put under another widget display a list (ie, “recent posts” plugin), the widget won’t display what it should. Actually, it won’t display anything. **Workaround:** put the imdb widget one level above the widget calling a list.
3. Visual post add/edit: when using ctrl-z to cancel an imdb insert (that means you clicked on little imdb pic), one may see two little imdb pics. **Workaround:** Avoid ctrl-z…
4. If you activate both “Display highslide popup” option and in Next-Gen Gallery’s highslide effect option, NGG picture display will be broken. **Workaround:** Do not use “Display highslide popup” option or use another effect option for NGG.
Release history
Check the changelog here
Special thanks
Well, maybe Izzy, who made the IMDb class available?
Also thanks to Murillo Ferrari for the Brazilian translation, to Andrés Cabrera for the Spanish translation.
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UM>>>>> I’m not getting any photos from the IMDB site.. Any specific reason.. Or some kind of remedy or easy fix for the troubleshoot?
hey mate, this is a great plugins, really awesome
this is bad to only have genre as taxonomies, do you able to add option to taxonomy actors, director,….
as suggestion add a check box to # What to display (in admin panel) to let admin check which one go Taxonomy not only genres.
Very nice plugin.
Just one question : is it possible to retrieve “Release Date” from IMDB
thanks
this what happen sorry about before
Error message (when trying adding a post) btw it posts
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent in /home/fswarez/domains/fswarez.org/public_html/wordpress/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 890
It could be related to a IIS bug : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q176113/
But also to a plugin conflict. Try to unactivate every plugin (but IMDb link transformer) until you don’t get this message anymore. Once the plugin in conflict is identified, give me its name and I’ll look into to see if I can find a workaround.
i’m faing this problem since i installed the plugin
and the problem… is?
Hi, the plugin is really good, but I can not find a way to put the link for the picture so I could read that field later for my homepage ( I don’t want to have the picture within the post ( in the post there should be only information for the movie that I could get from the widget ).
Well, you’re better linking imdb’s picture…
That’s what I want, but how I get the picture on the home page?
Well, assuming you want to display a picture for 2001 A space Odyssey, you pay a visit to http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/ and look for the picture you want, which either you link or download…
If you’re using the plugin’s cache, you’ll be able to find all the previously viewed imdb posters in your wp-contents/imdb/images folder. Each poster is named according to its imdb id. eg. 0417741.jpg.
With this in mind, you can use the default custom field “imdb-movie-widget-bymid” to display the poster. As long as the custom field has a valid value, you can use this code anywhere within the loop to display the poster for the relevant post:
—
ID, ‘imdb-movie-widget-bymid’, true); ?>
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I hope that makes sense!
I use this all over my film review website, http://www.cutprintreview.com.
If i’m working outside the loop, I use the get_posts template tags to call the relevant posts from a specific category.
See here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_posts
Whoops, the code wouldn’t show correctly in my last comment. Here it is without brackets.
Custom field call in php:
php $movieid = get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘imdb-movie-widget-bymid’, true);
Display the poster image in html:
img src=”/wp-content/imdb/images/’.$movieid.’.jpg”
Nice one, Anders
Hi, nice plugin!
i was asking myself just one question: is it possibile to choose from wich localized version of IMBD retrieve information or it just takes it from the .com imdb?
I havo to built a site for an italian Movie Teathre and I would like to catch informations about the films from IMDB.it, because infos are in italian.
Last thing, if i will use this plug in i will be surely available for an italian translation of it.
Ciao bluantinoo,
Theoretically, it should work switching “General Options -> Advanced -> Imdb address” to “italian IMDb”.
But actually, it doesn’t work as expected… Only (very) basic information is retrieved.
I’ll have a look on it, and let you know if I find something.
Feel you free to translate the plugin into italian
Well, after debating with Izzy (imdbphp libraries makers), localized imdb sites doesn’t allow to retrieve expected imdb informations. Changing this behaviour will need a complete rewriting of the libraries, what he’s not going to do.
Sorry.
On my popup it stopped showing images and it just says photo not available is there any way to fix that?
Could be related to this known issue :