/**
*
* @param <type> $pString
* @return <type>
*/
public static function find_artist($pString)
{
$client = new Zend_Rest_Client("http://musicbrainz.org/ws/1/artist/");
$client->type('xml');
$client->name(str_replace(' ', '+', $pString));
return $client->get();
}
/**
*
* @param <type> $pSearch_string
* @return <type>
*/
public static function search($pSearch_string)
{
$client = new Zend_Rest_Client("http://musicbrainz.org/ws/1/artist/");
$client->type('xml');
$client->name(str_replace(' ', '+', $pSearch_string));
$result = $client->get();
$out = array();
foreach ($result as $list) {
foreach ($list->children() as $node_name => $node) {
if ($node_name == 'artist') {
$artist = new stdClass();
$attrs = $node->attributes();
$artist->mbid = (string) $attrs['id'];
$artist->type = (string) $attrs['type'];
$artist->name = (string) $node->name;
$artist->disambiguation = (string) $node->disambiguation;
$out[$artist->mbid] = $artist;
}
}
}
return $out;
}
