danielgwood/movie-analyser

Takes a list of films and collates some stats, such as popular genres, actors, directors, eras and ratings and displays it in a neat infographicy style.

movie-analyser

Takes a list of films and collates some stats, such as popular genres, actors, directors, eras and ratings and displays it in a neat infographicy style.

This extends on an earlier experiment, https://github.com/danielgwood/movie-analyser-script.

Demo

Try it out here: http://movie-analyser.com/

Installing

1. Clone repo
2. Get an API key for TMDB: http://docs.themoviedb.apiary.io/
3. Add "apikey.php" at repo root, and define the API_KEY constant in there
4. At present, the storage mechanism is serialised text files. Make sure the path defined in \lib\MovieAnalyser::$SAVE_DIR is writable by PHP
5. Set the BASE_URL constant at the top of show.php to whatever URL your installation is

Contributing

I'm particularly interested to see more data/statistics derived (there's a whole load more data in TMDB which I'm not even accessing). Please forgive any code wibbles - I left this project unfinished for a while, and couldn't actually remember what I was doing when I came back to it.

See the official TODO list: https://github.com/danielgwood/movie-analyser/blob/master/TODO.md

License

Go nuts, but please keep the attributions for TMDB, https://github.com/glamorous, and Nikolay Kuchkarov on display. I'd also appreciate it if you let me know what you do!

movie-analyser's Issues

Movies with years don't work in some cases

Romero's "Dawn of the Dead" was clearly released in 1978, but searching for "Dawn Of The Dead (1978)" doesn't work on Movie Analyser or TMDB's site.

Need to find a better way of doing this.

Year chart quantity labels badly aligned

See: http://movie-analyser.com/520fee3424049

In quite a few cases the numbers sit below the chart, and aren't particularly legible. Might be better to place the numbers above the bar in a higher contrast font.

The width of the bars over such a large range also means the horizontal alignment is off.

Enter titles one by one with auto-suggest

Entering many films at once into a text box is only really practical if you already have a list, and are just copy-and-pasting it. For those just trying it out, or creating a list as they go, it's probably more practical to have an auto-suggest feature (which will probably have to work from a text input rather than textarea).

Facebook integration

It'd be neat to integrate with Facebook, so that users with "Movies watched" specified can login to Facebook and automatically search for all of that list.

A proof of concept for this exists in master, but needs hooking up to the interface.

Display list of all movies

Might be fun to display all of the movies in a user's collection at the end. Perhaps in a shelf format.

Accented/special characters

Titles such as "The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec" are not recognised.

Movies with 0 rating shouldn't be included in "worst movies"

A movie with 0 ratings on TMDB has a rating of 0/10. This means it's almost definitely always going to be "worst rated movie", which isn't necessarily correct.

Titles with question marks don't work with TMDb API

I've noticed in my own efforts with the TMDb API that titles with question marks just don't work; no results are returned.

Given the film "Getting Any? (1994)", the following happens...

Doesn't work with question mark:
http://movie-analyser.com/fetch.php?title=Getting%20Any?%20(1994)&setId=fake

Works without question mark:
http://movie-analyser.com/fetch.php?title=Getting%20Any%20(1994)&setId=fake

So, a hacky workaround is simply to strip question marks. Cheers!