Informations from imdb with file_get_content and explode problem

[cedry2k]

Hi, I'm trying to make an plugin that grab the movie info from imdb and displays them on a page.
The problem is that I can't get the poster.
This is my code:

$url = file_get_contents("http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1980209/");
$poster = explode('<img height="317" width="214" src="', $url );
$poster = explode('" itemprop="image" />', $poster[1]);

$picture = '<img height="170" width="150" src="'.$poster[0].'" />';
echo $picture; 

In the "View page source" I see only this:
<img height="170" width="150" />

The imdb page source html for poster is this:

<img height="317"
width="214"
alt="Pain & Gain (2013) Poster"
title="Pain & Gain (2013) Poster"
src="http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTU0NDE5NTU0OV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMzI1OTMzOQ@@._V1_SY317_CR0,0,214,317_.jpg"
itemprop="image" />

What is the problem?

[kevk3v]

Why dont you use the api Link it will be faster
like this http://imdbapi.org/?q=finding%20nemo you will get a json response

[something else]

What is the problem?

First Problem:

$poster = explode('<img height="317" width="214" src="', $url ); 

It should be alt=" not src="

Second problem:
You need to strip all newline symbols \n \r and white-space etc as other wise you will not get a match for your exploding

[razzbee]

Why dont you use preg_split instead of explode ?

[kevk3v]

Maybe he isn't good with regular expressions or because explode is faster :P

[analyzer]

Or maybe he's trying to make something different..

[cedry2k]

Actually I was thinking to try the imdbapi, because I think it will be faster than the explode...