Apple Movie Trailer Wordpress Widget

Submitted by ebeyrent on Tue, 02/13/2007 - 13:34

I found another great widget, which displays a random Apple Movie trailer, complete with movie poster.

Sadly, I ran into exactly the same problem that I did with the APOD widget - use of url file access functions is strictly verboten on my web host. So, here is the modded version of the widget to use cURL:

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Apple Trailer Sidebar Widget
Description: Adds a sidebar widget that shows the latest movie trailers from apple.com
Author: Patrick Queisler
Version: 1.1
Author URI: <a href="http://www.sosuechtig.de</p>
<p>Version" title="http://www.sosuechtig.de</p>
<p>Version">http://www.sosuechtig.de</p>
<p>Version</p></a> 1.1 - Erich Beyrent [http://www.beyrent.net]: added cURL functions to fetch the data from Apple
*/

function widget_appletrailer_init() {

    if ( !function_exists('register_sidebar_widget') )
        return;
        
    function widget_appletrailer($args) {
        
        extract($args);
        $options = get_option('widget_appletrailer');
        $title = $options['title'];
        
        echo $before_widget . $before_title . $title . $after_title;
        function appledotcom_parser(){
            $myfile = '';
            $lines = <a href="http://twitter.com/file">@file</a>("http://wdirect.apple.com/trailers/home/externalA.js");
            if($lines)
            {
                foreach ($lines as $line_num=> $line) 
                {
                    $myfile .= stripslashes($line);
                }
            }
            else
            {
                $ch = curl_init();
                curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://wdirect.apple.com/trailers/home/externalA.js");
                curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
                $myfile = curl_exec($ch);
                curl_close ($ch);
            }    
            
            $out = eregi_replace("href=\"/trailers/","target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://www.apple.com/trailers/",$myfile);
            return $out;
        }
        function get_trailer(){
            echo "<center><script language=\"JavaScript\" type=\"text/javascript\">";
            echo appledotcom_parser();
            echo "loadRandomD();
            </script></center>";
        }
        get_trailer();
        echo $after_widget;
    }


    function widget_appletrailer_control() {

        $options = get_option('widget_appletrailer');
        if ( !is_array($options) )
            $options = array('title'=>'');
        if ( $_POST['appletrailer-submit'] ) {

            $options['title'] = strip_tags(stripslashes($_POST['appletrailer-title']));
            update_option('widget_appletrailer', $options);
        }

        $title = htmlspecialchars($options['title'], ENT_QUOTES);
        
        echo '<p style="text-align:right;"><label for="appletrailer-title">Title: <input style="width: 200px;" id="appletrailer-title" name="appletrailer-title" type="text" value="'.$title.'" /></label></p>';
        echo '<input type="hidden" id="appletrailer-submit" name="appletrailer-submit" value="1" />';
    }
    
    register_sidebar_widget('Apple Trailer', 'widget_appletrailer');
    register_widget_control('Apple Trailer', 'widget_appletrailer_control', 300, 100);
}

add_action('plugins_loaded', 'widget_appletrailer_init');

?>

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About Erich

Erich is a web developer and a native New Englander who is passionate about life, the universe, and everything.

He is a Drupal consultant, previously employed as a senior developer at Harvard University, working on the IQSS OpenScholar project. Prior to joining the team at Harvard, he was the engineering manager at CommonPlaces e-Solutions, in Hampstead, NH, contributing as the lead engineer on the Greenopolis.com and Twolia.com.

Erich is active in the Drupal community, having contributed modules and patches to the community. He presented at DrupalCon in Szeged Hungary, and co-presented at DrupalCon 2009 in Washington, DC.

Erich lives in New Hampshire with his wife, two sons, and three weimaraners. When not writing code, Erich enjoys landscaping and woodworking.