IMDBtop10

Displays the top ten movies on IMDB. The application progressively builds an arhive with the top ten movies for a particular date.
It is based on the Yii2 framework.

Requirements

• PHP > 5.4.0
• php5-curl
• Composer. If you do not have Composer, you can run the following commands on Linux and Mac OS X:
  1. curl -s http://getcomposer.org/installer | php
  2. mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
• cron

Deployment

1. Clone the repository
2. Run composer global require "fxp/composer-asset-plugin:1.0.0-beta3". Installs the composer asset plugin which allows managing bower and npm package dependencies through Composer. You only need to run this command once for all.
3. Run composer install in the root directory of the application in order to install dependencies. This will create the vendor directory with all package dependencies inlcuding the yii core source code.
4. Create a new database with the name imdbdb and a new user imdbuser with password password1! (or edit the file config/db.php and give your own database name, user and password).
5. Run ./yii migrate in the root directory to create the database tables.
6. Run ./yii imdbscraper/storerecords in the root directory to make an initial call to imdb and store the top ten movies for the current date.
7. Create a cron job to execute the above script every day or week.

How to test

1. You can use php build-in web server. Run php -S localhost:8000 from the root directory.
2. Point your browser to http://localhost:8000/web.

How it works

• It uses a scraper script (commands/ImdbscraperController.php) to fetch the IMDB charts page in order to get the top movies .
• The top 10 movies are stored in the database.
• The scraper script runs every day or week (it depends on the cron job setup) to get the top movies for the current date.
• A user selects an available date from the dropdown menu to get the top ten movies for that date.
• A caching system prevents the database from being queried each time the data needs to be displayed. The default yii2 caching layer is used which is based on files caching. However, another caching layer could be used like Memcached.