public static function bySimilarity($movie)
{
$movies = array();
if ($movie->similarLink != "") {
$url = "{$movie->similarLink}?limit=5&apikey=y9ycwv778uspxkj6g4txme2h";
$similar = json_decode(Utils::getWebData($url), true);
foreach ($similar["movies"] as $sMovie) {
$movies[] = Query::byTitle($sMovie["title"]);
}
}
//var_dump($movies);
return $movies;
}
public static function trySimilarMovies(&$query)
{
$movieListToReturn = array();
$pattern = '/(movies?)? like (.*)$/i';
// the pattern we look for
$queryCopy = substr($query, 0);
// make a copy
$matches = array();
for (; strlen($queryCopy) > 0; $queryCopy = \Utils::removeLastWord($queryCopy)) {
if (preg_match($pattern, $queryCopy, $matches) == 1) {
// collect these movies, with relevances
$likeTitles = \Query::byTitle($matches[2]);
if (count($likeTitles) === 0) {
continue;
}
// not there may be multiple movies that matched... search through all
$likeResults = self::getRelevanceByTitle($likeTitles, $matches[2]);
foreach ($likeResults as $similarTo) {
// similarTo is (movie, relevance) pair
$simMovies = Query::bySimilarity($similarTo->movie);
// we use the same relevance for all similar movies
self::updateData($movieListToReturn, QResult::getResults($simMovies, $similarTo->relevance));
}
// also delete this section of the query
// -- this is ok here, since we already "continue'd" if this code does not apply
$query = preg_replace($pattern, SEP, $query);
break;
}
}
return $movieListToReturn;
}
