New Posting Features - TMDb Movie Thread Starter LITE

THIS ADD-ON IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE AND IS NOT SUPPORTED

Do you run a movie review or discussion site? Always copying and pasting information from The Movie Database to your new threads? Or, maybe you just want a place on your site to discuss movies with friends.

Then this vBulletin add-on is for you!

The TMDb Thread Starter allows you to enter the movie ID or the entire link to the movie at TMDb into your new thread, add whatever comments you like and post the new thread. The TMDb Thread Starter will import all of the information for your movie into the first post of the new thread.

FEATURES:

• Makes the new thread title the name of the movie.
• Automatically populates the top of the first post with the movie poster and information.
• Images are not stored locally and are obtained from The Movie Database cloud.

REQUIREMENTS:

vBulletin 4.2.x
A TMDb API Key
Server must have cURL installed

1.0.5 (May 20, 2014)
- Fix for new image url

1.0.4 (June 27, 2013)
- Improved movie decoding/encoding
- Added check for duplicate movie

[ckgb]

Right now the movie image created inside a thread has a size of 185x278 pixels. Is there a way to change the size to 200x301?

I tried changing it in newpost_process but it just fails to display.

Thank You

[nhawk]

Originally Posted by ckgb

Right now the movie image created inside a thread has a size of 185x278 pixels. Is there a way to change the size to 200x301?

I tried changing it in newpost_process but it just fails to display.

Thank You

The size of the image comes directly from TMDb. It is not controllable by the add-on.

[ckgb]

I see. Facebook does not recognize images under 200x200. Unfortunate.

[nhawk]

Originally Posted by ckgb

I see. Facebook does not recognize images under 200x200. Unfortunate.

Interesting considering I see many, many images sized at 76x114.

[ckgb]

Regardless, Great mod. Great. Simply love it. Rating of the movies would be next great addition to it ))

[final kaoss]

Thanks but this doesn't seem to work for tv shows? Example that I tried.
http://www.themoviedb.org/tv/12278-c...ngel-mindfreak

[nhawk]

Originally Posted by final kaoss

Thanks but this doesn't seem to work for tv shows? Example that I tried.
http://www.themoviedb.org/tv/12278-c...ngel-mindfreak

No it doesn't.

The TV API from TMDb works differently from the Movie API. The reponses and queries are different.

AND the TV API at TMDb isn't complete yet. There are critical functions missing from it.

[highlander_RD]

Thank you nhawk: great mod! :up:

I just amended few things in the "newpost_process" plugin.

1) I added the language option, so to extract title and plot in Italian, as follows:

PHP Code:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/" . $tmdbid . "?api_key=" . $vbulletin->options['tmdbthreads_api'] . "&language=it&include_image_language=it,null" . "&append_to_response=casts"); 


2) I added addslashes to the movietitle in the SQL because of the symbols (as ' ) we have in our language:

PHP Code:

            $isposted = $vbulletin->db->query_first("SELECT threadid, tmdb_title FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "thread WHERE tmdb_title = '" . addslashes($movietitle) . "' AND tmdb_release = '" . $releasedate . "' AND forumid = '" . $foruminfo 


3) I put variables $movietitle and $plot under utf8_decode() so to avoid gibberish characters and obtain ISO-8859-1 correct accented characters.