| Registered: May 26, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 599 |
| | Posted: | | | | Excuse my ignorance, but I've been trying to make a HTML section for Find-DVD.co.uk using a title search and I'm having a small problem. First, I honestly don't know what I'm doing, but I've basically been cutting & pasting from the Wiki HTML section I have in my layout and editing in what I think are the correct links. I'm trying to do at least a title search on the site, but would also like to do a UPC search if possible. I have the HTML working up to this point...  What do I need to change in the code to get it to submit the title? And if you're feeling extra helpful, also search using UPC? Here's the code so far... Quote:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript">
<!--
<DP NAME="HEADER_VARS" Language="JavaScript" Comments="True" IncludeCast="False" IncludeCrew="False">
function FindDVD() {
var title = DP_Title;
var matchErg = DP_Notes.match(/FindDVD:\s*(.+)$/i);
if (matchErg) {
var FindDVDilink = "http://www.find-dvd.co.uk/" + matchErg[1];
} else {
var FindDVDlink = "http://www.find-dvd.co.uk/search.aspx?title=";
}
window.location.href= FindDVDlink;
}
//-->
</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>
<BODY onload="FindDVD();">
</BODY>
</HTML> Any help would be greatly appreciated.  | | | | Last edited: by Antares |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 350 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Antares: Quote:
What do I need to change in the code to get it to submit the title? I think you need to change Quote:
var FindDVDlink = "http://www.find-dvd.co.uk/search.aspx?title="; to Quote:
var FindDVDlink = "http://www.find-dvd.co.uk/search.aspx?title="+title; Quote:
And if you're feeling extra helpful, also search using UPC? FindDVD does not appear to have a search by EAN/UPC. It isn't obvious from the 15 seconds that i looked at the site if they use that very much ... | | | | -fred |
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| Registered: May 26, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 599 |
| | Posted: | | | | Thanks you very much, it worked. Green arrow for you! |
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| Registered: May 26, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 599 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting FredLooks: Quote:
FindDVD does not appear to have a search by EAN/UPC. Would it be possible to search using Director instead? | | | | Last edited: by Antares |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 2,005 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Antares: Quote:
Quoting FredLooks:
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FindDVD does not appear to have a search by EAN/UPC.
Would it be possible to search using Director instead? This should work: var FindDVDlink = "http://www.find-dvd.co.uk/director.aspx?director=<DP NAME="CREW_DIRECTION">"; | | | 
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 1,029 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting TomGaines: Quote:
Quoting Antares:
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Would it be possible to search using Director instead?
This should work:
var FindDVDlink = "http://www.find-dvd.co.uk/director.aspx?director=<DP NAME="CREW_DIRECTION">"; Sorry, it won't, because the DP tag will include HTML tags. You either have to put the DP tag in a hidden DIV tag and extract the first line of the innerText property or you have to include Crew in the HEADER_VARS, search for the first Director entry in DP_CrewEntries, and normalize that name. Also you should always call escape() for parameters appended to a query URL. Lastly, the director search on www.find-dvd.co.uk is pretty poor. It seems to require exact spelling of the full director name. For example, it will find neither "Spielberg", nor "Steven++Spielberg" (2 spaces), only the exact spelling of "Steven+Spielberg". | | | | Matthias |
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