imdb

<?php

error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', true);

define('CACHE_DIR', dirname(__FILE__) . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'cache');


function download_from_internet($url)
{
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPGET, true);
//  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, CACHE_DIR . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'cookies.txt');
//  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, CACHE_DIR . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'cookies.txt');
//  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)");
    $source = curl_exec ($ch);

    return $source;
}


function download_with_cache($url, $ttl = 86400)
{
    $cache_file = CACHE_DIR . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . strtr($url, ':/?|#', '.....').'xxx';


    if (!is_dir(CACHE_DIR)) {
        mkdir(CACHE_DIR, 0755);
    }

    // these lines will check and create a cache directory if there is none
    if (
        is_file($cache_file)
        &&
        filemtime($cache_file) > time() - $ttl)
    {
        $contents = file_get_contents($cache_file);
    } else { //
        $contents = download_from_internet($url);
        file_put_contents($cache_file, $contents);
    }

    return $contents;
}


$url = "http://www.imdb.com/genre/";

$contents = download_with_cache($url);

header('Content-type: text/plain');

$contents = download_with_cache($url);

$contents = substr($contents, strpos($contents, '<table class="genre-table"'));//goes to imdb and targets the table
$contents = substr($contents, 0, strpos($contents, '</table'));
$contents = strip_tags($contents, '<a>');
foreach (explode("\n", $contents) as $line) {
    if (strpos($line, '&#xBB;') !== false) {
        echo "'" , trim(str_replace('&#xBB;', '', strip_tags($line))) , "',\n";
    }
}