http://forums.themoviedb.org/topic/595/the-moviedb-cakephp-component/

contributed by gubbel890

<?php
/**
 * MoviedbComponent - API-Implementation for 'themoviedb.org'
 * API-Dokumentation: http://api.themoviedb.org/2.0/docs/
 *
 * Usage:
 * 1. Include this component in your controller
 * |-> Example: public $components = array('Moviedb');
 * 2. Request your API-Key and edit the component config below
 * 3. Getting started to use the component
 * |-> Example: $this->Moviedb->search(Transformers);
 *
 * @package   : MoviedbComponent
 * @author    : Stephan Pohl <imac.pohl@web.de>
 * @revision  : 2
 * @since     : 21.08.2009
 * @available : 21.08.2009
 * @copyright : Stephan Pohl <imac.pohl@web.de>
 * @licence   : CC-by-NC <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/legalcode>
 *
 */

class MoviedbComponent extends Object {
	
	/**
	 * CakePHP Internal Name
	 */
	public $name = 'Moviedb';
	
	/**
	 * Component Settings
	 */
	public $config = array(
	
			/**
			 * General Settings
			 */
			'general' => array(
			
				/**
				 * Your API-Key
				 * 
				 * You need to sign up at "http://www.themoviedb.org/account/signup"
				 * and request a key at "api@themoviedb.org"
				 */
				'apikey' => '',
				
				/**
				 * Request-URL
				 */
				'url' => 'http://api.themoviedb.org/2.0/'	
			),
			
			/**
			 * Provided API Methods
			 */
			'methods' => array(
				'search'     => 'Movie.search?',
				'imdbLookup' => 'Movie.imdbLookup?',
				'getInfo'    => 'Movie.getInfo?'
		)
	);
	
	/**
	 * The 'search' method is the easiest and quickest way to search for a movie.
	 * It is a mandatory method in order to get the movie id
	 * to pass to (as an example) the Movie.getInfo method.
	 *
	 * @access: public
	 * @param : string $title
	 * @return: array  $results
	 *
	 */
	public function search($title) {
	
		$url = $this->config['general']['url'] 
		. $this->config['methods']['search'] 
		. 'title=' . urlencode($title) 
		. '&api_key=' . $this->config['general']['apikey']; 
		
		$results = $this->getResults($url);
		
		return $results;
	}
	
	/**
	 * The 'getInfo' method is used to retrieve specific information about a movie.
	 * Things like overview, release date, cast data, genre's, YouTube trailer link, etc..
	 *
	 * @access: public
	 * @param : int   $id
	 * @return: array $results
	 *
	 */
	public function getInfo($id) {
	
		$url = $this->config['general']['url'] 
		. $this->config['methods']['getInfo'] 
		. 'id=' . $id 
		. '&api_key=' . $this->config['general']['apikey'];
		
		$results = $this->getResults($url);
		
		return $results;
	}
	
	/**
	 * The 'imdbLookup' method is the easiest and quickest way to search for a movie based on it's IMDb ID.
	 * You can use 'imdbLookup' method to get the TMDb id of a movie if you already have the IMDB id
	 *
	 * @access: public
	 * @param : string $imdbId
	 * @return: array  $results
	 *
	 */
	public function imdbLookup($imdbId) {
	
		$url = $this->config['general']['url'] 
		. $this->config['methods']['imdbLookup'] 
		. 'imdb_id=' . $imdbId 
		. '&api_key=' . $this->config['general']['apikey'];
		
		$results = $this->getResults($url);
		
		return $results;
	}
	
	/**
	 * The 'getResults' method getting the requested data and parse the returned XML
	 * in an Array
	 *
	 * @access: private
	 * @param : string $url
	 * @return: array  $result
	 *
	 */
	private function getResults($url) {
	
		if($fp = fopen($url, 'r')) {
			ob_start();
			
			fpassthru($fp);
			
			$result = ob_get_contents();
			
			ob_end_clean();
		}
		
		App::import('Xml');
		
		$file = $result;

		$parsed_xml =& new XML($file);
		$result = Set::reverse($parsed_xml);
		
		return $result;
	}

}
?>