/**
* This function takes in firstname and lastname of an actor and
* first checks to see if there are multiple actors with same name.
* if so it calls the getSimilarActorIdByName function which selects
* which Id gets pickes based on two filtering criteria. If there are
* no entries it returns null and if there is only a single entry it
* returns the Id of that actor using getActorIdByName.
* @param String $Fname
* @param String $Lname
* @return NULL| Integer
*/
function getMyId($Fname, $Lname)
{
if (searchForDuplicateActor($Fname, $Lname) == true) {
return getSimilarActorIdByName($Fname, $Lname);
} elseif (getActorIdByName($Fname, $Lname) == null) {
return null;
} else {
return getActorIdByName($Fname, $Lname);
}
}
$Fname = ucfirst(strtolower($Fname));
$Lname = $_GET["lastname"];
$Lname = trim($Lname);
$Lname = ucfirst(strtolower($Lname));
include "top.html";
include "search-engine.php";
?>
<h1>Results for <?php
echo $Fname . " " . $Lname;
?>
</h1>
<?php
//First search if given actor has multiple entries in actor table
if (searchForDuplicateActor($Fname, $Lname)) {
//if so, pick the one with highest movie count and lowest id number
$actorId = getSimilarActorIdByName($Fname, $Lname);
} else {
//else get the id of the actor directly
$actorId = getActorIdByName($Fname, $Lname);
}
//if no actors with given name found, return null
if ($actorId == null) {
?>
Actor <?php
echo $Fname . " " . $Lname;
?>
not found.
<?php
} else {