moinax/tvdb

PHPTVDB is a PHP library for accessing TV show information such as episodes, actors, showtimes and descriptions.

TvDb

Deprecated This library was implemented to work with the TVDB API V1., _(*1)

It is now deprecated so I suggest you to find another library that implements the new API like https://github.com/adrenth/thetvdb2, _(*2)

, _(*3)

Based on the well known php library phptvdb (available on http://code.google.com/p/phptvdb/), this version has been completely refactored to offer more features from the tvdb api (available on http://www.thetvdb.com/wiki/index.php/Programmers_API) by using PHP 5.3 namespaces, very useful to import in a bigger project like Symfony 2 for example., _(*4)

What does it do:

The Client implements almost all api functions from thetvdb excepted the download in ZIP format, _(*5)

Usage:

use Moinax\TvDb\Client;
$apiKey = 'YOURAPIKEY';

$tvdb = new Client("http://thetvdb.com", $apiKey);
$tvdb->getSerie(75710);

Cache usage:

To save bandwidth, reduce latency, or both of two, you can use a Http Client with caching features. The HTTP client use the If-Modified-Since header to fetch full content only if resource was modified. This saves bandwidth. The HTTP client also use a time to live parameter to completly avoid making request if resource was fresh enough. This reduce latency., _(*6)

<?php
use Moinax\TvDb\Http\Cache\FilesystemCache;
use Moinax\TvDb\Http\CacheClient;
use Moinax\TvDb\Client;

$ttl = 600; # how long things should get cached, in seconds.
$apiKey = 'YOURAPIKEY';

$cache = new FilesystemCache(__DIR__ . '/cache');
$httpClient = new CacheClient($cache, $ttl);

$tvdb = new Client("http://thetvdb.com", $apiKey);
$tvdb->setHttpClient($httpClient);

$tvdb->getSerie(75710); //This request will fetch the resource online.
$tvdb->getSerie(75710); //Cache content is fresh enough. We don't make any request.
sleep(600);
$tvdb->getSerie(75710); //The content is not fresh enough. We make a request with
                        //the If-Modified-Since header. The server respond 304 Not
                        //modified, so we load content from the cache.

Examples:

Use the index.php to test the Api Rename the settings.php.dist in settings.php if you wan to test and enter your own API key provided by http://thetvdb.com, _(*7)

Status:

This version is quite stable and used in production on http://nextepisode.tv, _(*8)