Report to generate Actor->Movie list?

mzemina · Post by **mzemina** » 2003-10-15 14:59:04

Is there a method/script that someone has created that will allow the reporting of the Actors in their movies? It seems that there is a discussion that someone wants to know what other movies we have with one of the actors and other than going into the room with the computer, starting the computer and the program - by that time the interest has gone. I was hoping to create a coffee-table chapter, that is a part of my booklet which shows the movies. A rough example of what I am looking for is like this:

--Gary Sinise--
.......Apollo 13 - 1995
.......Green Mile, The - 1999
.......Mission to Mars - 2000

--Tom Hanks--
.......Apollo 13 - 1995
.......Band of Brothers - 2001
.......Cast Away - 2000
.......Catch Me if You Can - 2002
.......Green Mile, The - 1999
.......Joe Verse The Volcano - 1990
.......Saving Private Ryan - 1998
.......Sleepless in Seattle - 1993
.......Toy Story: The Ultimate Toy Box - 1995
.......You've Got Mail - 1998

--Actor--
.......Movie1 - Date released
.......Movie2 - Date released
.......Movie3 - Date released
.......Movie4 - Date released

Mike Zemina

Post by **antp** » 2003-10-15 18:38:32

It should be possible to do if I improve scripting for version 4, but I do not think it is possible in AMC3.

Ormus · Post by **Ormus** » 2003-10-16 14:58:58

Sounds very interesting... I'll try to add something like that to AMCphp.

Gregi · Post by **Gregi** » 2003-10-16 18:39:46

This script support that:

viewtopic.php?t=287&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

search engine in it can show you in which movie an actor has played.

and also this one (php version of one above):

viewtopic.php?t=926

Ormus · Post by **Ormus** » 2003-10-16 20:09:53

I think he meant something else. Quite a few templates support searching. He would like it in a printable format and for multiple actors at once I guess...

mzemina · Post by **mzemina** » 2003-10-17 20:06:48

That is correct. I am looking for a printable (could be HTML) version of ALL the actors with each of their movies (in the preferred format I supplied) and date it was released.

Mike

Ormus · Post by **Ormus** » 2003-10-20 09:35:01

Ok, I've been thinking about it and tried a few things. The main problem is to extract the names. For example: I have only the actors in my list (one per line), others probably use the imdb import which includes the role name. And others could just have a comma-seperated list...

I guess I'll first write a version working with my format (one actor per line). Then I will offer some parse options.

mzemina · Post by **mzemina** » 2003-10-20 16:05:56

Ormus wrote: I guess I'll first write a version working with my format (one actor per line). Then I will offer some parse options.

Cool!

I can't wait!!

Ormus · Post by **Ormus** » 2003-10-20 16:48:48

Ok, you don't have to wait

First rough version finished. Have a look at the online demonstration of AMCphp in the Options section. The script is quite slow, I'm thinking about ways to improve that. (The list will not stay in the options section, just a quick hack for now)

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 2003-10-21 13:08:52

Looks like I could not get to your site from work. So I had to wait until after work to download AMCphp09b2.zip

This the version which has that option?

Mike

Ormus · Post by **Ormus** » 2003-10-21 14:28:08

Nope, I don't have a release with it yet. Can only be seen in my online demo...

It's still a very rough version (made in like 30 minutes yesterday). It has a few holes and it's only working, if the actors list for each movie is like that (only actors name, one per line):

Harrison Ford
Sean Connery
...

I'll continue working on it, expect a downloadable release by the end of the week, ok?

mzemina · Post by **mzemina** » 2003-10-21 15:20:47

What is the URL for your online demo? I found when I d/l the ZIP that it was an older version.

I'm not in any hurry, I appreciate your working on this!

Mike

Ormus · Post by **Ormus** » 2003-10-21 15:34:22

Just improved it a little. Now the report script is half as big and twice as fast as before

Plus a fixed bug.

The url is: http://amc.loben.net/demo/index.html
Should be reachable via amc.loben.net as well though.

mzemina · Post by **mzemina** » 2003-10-22 12:28:06

This looks GREAT!

Mike

Ormus · Post by **Ormus** » 2003-10-24 08:42:39

See the AMCphp thread:
viewtopic.php?t=813

mzemina · Post by **mzemina** » 2003-10-24 21:34:14

Yes you are so GREAT, I'll d/l and install this weekend!

Thanks

I love it!