Carlo Vella’s Bits and Bytes

I’ve been wondering about it for awhile now
Anyway, you forgot the getImageBytes function:

private static byte[] getImageBytes(System.Drawing.Image image)
{
MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();
image.Save(ms, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Jpeg);
return ms.ToArray();
}

Otherwise, it works! Thanks a bunch!

How do you obtain the url for the movie image you want? I didn’t see it readily available in the imdb interface.

Thanks

Hello carlo
You really did a great job, I was trying to achive the same thing (capture image from IMDB) but in vain.

I developpe a phpbb3 mod that shows current box office listings, I used an rss feed from yahoo, then when you click on the title it generates a link to imdb movie page.

now i want to include thumbnails for titles, i succeded to get the image link but when i want to show it, it doesnt work, unless i type the link in a page directly.

I work under php, and would like to heve the same code as yours but in php (i’m dummie in asp)

her’s the link to that mod
http://forum.numediastudio.com/boxoffice.php

I succeded now to show it up using php
$ch = curl_init($_REQUEST['imdb_image_link']);
if (! $ch) {
die( “Cannot allocate a new PHP-CURL handle” );
}

// We’ll be returning this transfer, and the data is binary
// so we don’t want to NULL terminate
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, 1);

// Grab the jpg and save the contents in the $data variable
$_REQUEST['imdb_image_link'] = curl_exec($ch);

// close the connection
curl_close($ch);

// Set the header to type image/jpeg, since that’s what we’re
// displaying
header(”Content-type: image/jpeg”);

// Output the image
print( $_REQUEST['imdb_image_link'] );

Hi Abdessamad,

How did you manage to get the rss feed and display it in your forum? I’m trying to create a page in phpBB3 that shows feeds from a number of blogs.

Thanks

I found a technique over here that works