[eviljoker7075]

Hey all! I am currently setting up a CD review website, where users submit their own reviews, I am using the Drupal CMS and I need some help. Is there any way I can have the reviews automatically find an album front cover to display on the review page?

Users will obviusly be submitting the album and artist name in a form so I'm guessing I can pick the information up from that, but I don't know where I could look for the artwork... can anyone offer up any advice on this?

Thanks.

[Nico]

Hmm... don't know where to move this really. I guess the PHP section is alright.

This is probably doable, but you can't really trust it.

[eviljoker7075]

What do you mean can't really trust it?

I'm gonna need to find a way to do it as it is a really important feature of the site really lol!

[duesi]

Just a side remark: what about copyright issues?
The music industry can be really aggressive when it comes to this issue, so make sure, you are allowed to display album covers (for example by associating with amazon).

Happy Coding!

[eviljoker7075]

Yeah I was thinking that too... hosting the images myself though is out of the question as I would need to have EVERY album concievable, just in case it was reviewed lol!

[Nico]

Okay, here a very simple example.

PHP Code:

<?php



if (isset($_POST['artist']))

{

    $save_path = './covers/';

    

    $artist = preg_replace('/\s/', '+', $_POST['artist']);

    $album = preg_replace('/\s/', '+', $_POST['album']);

    

    if ($data = @file_get_contents('http://www.last.fm/music/'. $artist .'/'. $album))

    {

        preg_match('/<div class=\"cover\"><a(.*?)><img src=\"(.*?)\"(.*?) \/><\/a><\/div>/', $data, $matches);

        

        if ($cover = @file_get_contents($matches[2]))

        {

            $filepath = $save_path . basename($matches[2]);

            $fp = fopen($filepath, 'w');

            fwrite($fp, $cover);

            fclose($fp);

            

            echo '<img src="'. $filepath .'" />';

            echo '<br />Cover saved <a href="'. $filepath .'">here</a>';

        }

    }

    else

    {

        echo 'Could not find cover';

    }

}



?>



<form action="" method="post">

Artist: <input type="text" name="artist" />

Album: <input type="text" name="album" />

<input type="submit" />

</form>

It attempts to get the cover from www.last.fm
If it finds the cover, it will safe a copy in a directory on your server and display it.

You should keep Duesi's point in mind though. You could get in trouble with that... Use at own risk, lol.

[eviljoker7075]

So, will it help if I asked them fior permission?

Would this be possible for amazon?

[Nico]

Amazon would probably be possible.. but more difficult cause they have weird URLs and it's hard to bulid it and get its contents. This is why I decided to use last.fm. If you don't plan to create a super underground music review site, I guess last.fm will be okay. They have nearly every album.

As for the permission... I have no idea. But I guess you can ask and try.

[eviljoker7075]

Excellent!! Will give it a go! I'll tell you what they say!

BTW, what happens if the album can't be found? Can I add a default 'not found' image?

[Nico]

Yes, sure. Just replace this line:

PHP Code:

echo 'Could not find cover'; 

And output your own HTML which displays the not found image. Since you didn't post any code can't I help more. I guess you will have to save the data in a database, which the code above doesn't.